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Daniil Donchenko vs Punahele Soriano

Red corner DaniilDonchenkoTiger Muay Thai · Hometown (per Sherdog): Kyiv
VSSettled
Blue corner PunaheleSoriano“Puna”
Welterweight3 rounds5 Sep 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
16-2
Record
13-5
−8 yr25
Age
33
5' 11"
Height
5' 11"
71″
Reach
+1″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
3
UFC bouts
+811
+10%2/367% of wins
Finishes
4/757% of wins
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
Daniil Donchenko
76.2% confidentHIGH
Method calledKO/TKO 54%
Vs the market+8.9pp
Market had our pick at67%
The fight
Daniil Donchenko
WIN✗
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Daniil Donchenko at 76.2% and Daniil Donchenko 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 — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Donchenko
Daniil Donchenko37 sig landed
HEAD49%18 of 33BODY32%12 of 13LEGS19%7 of 7
Punahele Soriano5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 16BODY0%0 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
37 of 53
Sig.
strikes
5 of 22
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:39
Control
0:05
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 25Clinch 4Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Donchenko firstBen Cartlidge10–9Eric Colón10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Daniil Donchenko33 sig landed
HEAD45%15 of 32BODY27%9 of 11LEGS27%9 of 9
Punahele Soriano6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 39BODY17%1 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
33 of 52
Sig.
strikes
6 of 47
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:11
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 32Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Donchenko firstBen Cartlidge10–9Eric Colón10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Daniil Donchenko13 sig landed
HEAD100%13 of 29BODY0%0 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Punahele Soriano4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 13BODY50%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 32
Sig.
strikes
4 of 15
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 6
0:02
Control
3:16
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 7Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Donchenko firstBen Cartlidge10–9Eric Colón9–10David Lethaby10–9

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.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Marc Goddard
Daniil DonchenkoPunahele Soriano
Official totals — Daniil Donchenko first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 45% wide30–27

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 10 scored, Daniil Donchenko first · unofficial

Unattributed30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
CombatPress.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Unattributed29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Donchenko · 33%29-28 Donchenko · 33%29-27 Donchenko · 14%30-27 Donchenko · 14%

21 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Daniil Donchenko

0.37takedowns / 15 min
0.37 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.20 / 15m
1.48 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.68 / 15m
25%
ACCURACY
47%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Punahele Soriano

2.20takedowns / 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 (5.27 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Daniil DonchenkoPunahele SorianoPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Daniil Donchenko vs Punahele Soriano — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Daniil Donchenko and Punahele Soriano from Aug 26 to Sep 05, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Daniil Donchenko moves from 65% to 68% and Punahele Soriano from 35% to 32%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.25%35%45%55%65%75%Aug 26Aug 28Aug 31Sep 3Sep 5▲ we flagged Daniil Donchenko (HIGH) here68%32%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Daniil Donchenko's implied chance moved up from 65% to 68% (+2.5pp).

This series stops at Sep 05 20:01Z — 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 Daniil Donchenko at 76.2%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 67.5% — our number sat 8.7pp above 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
Daniil Donchenko — sportsbook consensus65.0%64.6%69.6%67.5%+2.5pp
Punahele Soriano — sportsbook consensus35.0%30.4%35.4%32.5%−2.5pp
Daniil Donchenko — Polymarket65.0%61.5%69.5%67.5%+2.5pp
Punahele Soriano — Polymarket35.0%30.5%38.5%32.5%−2.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 2,661 snapshots on file · window Aug 26 04:18–Sep 05 19:51Z · last capture Sep 05, 19:51Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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