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Marina Spasic vs Stephanie Luciano

Red corner MarinaSpasicHometown (per Sherdog): Belgrade
VSSettled
Blue corner StephanieLucianoHometown (per Sherdog): Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
Women's Strawweight3 rounds1 Aug 2026
The story going in
  • Lands 2.2 more significant strikes a minute than Luciano.
  • Carries 30 points more takedown defence than Spasic.
7-2
Record
8-2-1
32
Age
−6 yr26
5' 4"
Height
+2″5' 6"
64″
Reach
+1″65″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Belgradehometown, per Sherdog
From
Belo Horizonte, Minas Geraishometown, per Sherdog
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Stephanie Luciano
62.5% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 53%
Vs the market−11.7pp
Market had our pick at74%
The fight
Stephanie Luciano
WIN✗
How it endedSUB
Round1 of 3
Clock3:20
Called it We called Stephanie Luciano at 62.5% and Stephanie Luciano won. The method call missed.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 13:20 of action1 sub attemptEnded 3:20
Marina Spasic25 sig landed
HEAD72%18 of 46BODY4%1 of 1LEGS24%6 of 6
Stephanie Luciano20 sig landed
HEAD70%14 of 38BODY0%0 of 1LEGS30%6 of 8
25 of 53
Sig.
strikes
20 of 47
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:26
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Stephanie Luciano

Round
1
Clock
3:20
Method
SUB

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Dejan Tesic.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Marina Spasic

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.47 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
2.23 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
66%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Stephanie Luciano

1.47takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.19 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Strawweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was published.

Marina SpasicStephanie LucianoPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Marina Spasic vs Stephanie Luciano — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Marina Spasic and Stephanie Luciano from Jul 30 to Aug 01, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Marina Spasic moves from 24% to 24% and Stephanie Luciano from 76% to 76%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was published before the window opened, not at that price.15%25%35%45%55%65%75%Jul 30 11:00Jul 31 00:00Jul 31 12:00Aug 1 01:00Aug 1 14:00▲ our call: Stephanie Luciano (MED)24%76%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Stephanie Luciano's implied chance moved up from 76% to 76% (+1.0pp). Our pick was published before this window opened — so the gold marker sits at the first snapshot we hold, not at a price we were reacting to.

This series stops at Aug 01 14:12Z — the point at which this bout’s own market began the move that ended in settlement. Our capture window is card-level and kept running through the fight, so what follows it in the raw file is the market collapsing live and then paying out at 1.00 / 0.00. That is a settlement, not price history: it is not drawn, and it is not counted in the figures below.

Our published call had Stephanie Luciano at 62.5%. At the last price we captured before this bout’s market began to settle, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 76.5% — our number sat 14.0pp below the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
SeriesOpenLowHighLast pre-fightMove
Marina Spasic — sportsbook consensus26.8%24.4%31.3%31.3%+4.5pp
Stephanie Luciano — sportsbook consensus73.2%68.7%75.6%68.7%−4.5pp
Marina Spasic — Polymarket24.5%23.5%25.5%23.5%−1.0pp
Stephanie Luciano — Polymarket75.5%74.5%76.5%76.5%+1.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 624 snapshots on file · window Jul 30 11:30–Aug 01 14:09Z · last capture Aug 01, 14:09Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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