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Levi Rodrigues Jr. vs Liu Ce

Red corner Levi RodriguesJr.
VSSettled
Blue corner LiuCe
Light Heavyweight3 rounds29 Aug 2026
5-2
Record
4-1
29
Age
29
6' 0"
Height
+3″6' 3"
76″
Reach
+1″77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
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The call vs the fight

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

Our call
Liu Ce
56.2% confidentLOW
Method calledKO/TKO 45%
Vs the market−6.0pp
Market had our pick at62%
The fight
Liu Ce
WIN✓
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 3
Clock4:26
BonusFOTN
Called it We called Liu Ce at 56.2% and Liu Ce won. The method call landed too.
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 14:26 of action⚡ 2 KD CeEnded 4:26
Levi Rodrigues Jr.28 sig landed
HEAD82%23 of 51BODY7%2 of 2LEGS11%3 of 4
Liu Ce59 sig landed
HEAD71%42 of 62BODY15%9 of 12LEGS14%8 of 8
28 of 57
Sig.
strikes
59 of 82
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:44
Control
0:04
0
Knock-
downs
2
Distance 27Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 54Clinch 5Ground 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

Liu Ce

Round
1
Clock
4:26
Method
KO/TKO

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: Herb Dean.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Levi Rodrigues Jr.

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
n/a
n/a
ACCURACY
n/a
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Liu Ce

0.00takedowns / 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 (6.25 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

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 frozen.

Levi Rodrigues Jr.Liu CePolymarket
Levi Rodrigues Jr. vs Liu Ce — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Levi Rodrigues Jr. and Liu Ce from Aug 25 to Aug 29, drawn from Polymarket. Levi Rodrigues Jr. moves from 50% to 38% and Liu Ce from 50% to 62%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.30%40%50%60%70%Aug 25Aug 26Aug 27Aug 28Aug 29▲ our call: Liu Ce (LOW)38%62%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Liu Ce's implied chance moved up from 50% to 62% (+11.5pp).

This series stops at Aug 29 10:33Z — the last capture we hold from before the bout that ran ahead of this one on the card had finished — so it is provably from before this fight started. 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 Liu Ce at 56.2%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 61.5% — our number sat 5.3pp 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
Levi Rodrigues Jr. — Polymarket50.0%35.5%55.5%38.5%−11.5pp
Liu Ce — Polymarket50.0%44.5%64.5%61.5%+11.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners). 1,024 snapshots on file · window Aug 25 22:06–Aug 29 10:27Z · last capture Aug 29, 10:27Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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