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Manoel Sousa

UFC 2-0Pro 15-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Manoel Sousa’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

UFC recordUFC 2-0 first fight 2026-03-14 · last fight 2026-08-08
Pro record15-1
Current streak2 wins
Last 2 (UFC)W W
DivisionLightweight
Age29
Height5' 9"
StanceOrthodox

5' 9" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 decision.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. 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. The social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

NicknameManumito
NationalityBrazil
Hometown (per Sherdog)Acarau, Ceara
CampAcademia Octogono
Height5' 9"
Reach70"
StanceOrthodox
Age29
Date of birthJun 04, 1997
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record15-1
UFC recordUFC 2-0 first fight 2026-03-14 · last fight 2026-08-08
Finish split2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Manoel Sousa’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min4.27
Striking accuracy48%
Strikes absorbed / min3.48
Striking defence55%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.36
Takedown accuracy20%
Takedown defence73%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.10

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Lightweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Lightweight.
Striking76
Defence54
Grappling / TD28
Cardio92
Chin limited sample66
Fight IQ63

Our calls on Manoel Sousa’s fights

Every fight of Manoel Sousa’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.

FightIQ has called 2 of Manoel Sousa’s fights in 2026: 2 correct (2–0 — 100% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-08-08Richie MirandaManoel Sousa68.2%Correct
2026-03-14Bolaji OkiManoel Sousa65.7%Correct

Strike zones

Strike zones

Manoel Sousa

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD66.0%ACC 39%BODY15.2%ACC 75%LEGS18.8%ACC 76%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 66% head / 15% body / 19% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
66.0% acc 39%+3.9 vs field
BODY
15.2% acc 75%−5.6 vs field
LEGS
18.8% acc 76%+1.7 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 80%CLINCH 15%GROUND 4%

Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

Limited sample2 UFC fights · 138 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Manoel Sousa

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

0.36takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.36 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −1.86 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS5
0.36 / 15m−1.86 vs field
ATTEMPTS16
1.80 / 15m−3.75 vs field
ACCURACY12
20%−23pp vs field
SUB ATT66
1.10 / 15m−0.21 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.19 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

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.

Ranked in Lightweight

Recent form

Pro record: 15-1. In the UFC: 2-0. Manoel Sousa’s last 2 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.

Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.

Post-fight bonuses

1 post-fight bonus since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Performance of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2026-03-14POTNPerformance of the NightBolaji OkiUFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Vallejos

The UFC's post-fight bonus programme began in 2006, so every total here is a career total since 2006. A fighter who fought only before then has no bonuses because the award did not exist yet. Fight of the Night is a shared award and is credited to both fighters. Performance, Knockout and Submission of the Night are individual awards, credited to the fighter the official record names.

Awards whose recipient the official list does not name are credited to nobody, so these counts are a floor: 245 of 1,339 Performance of the Night and 1 of 180 Submission of the Night awards are unassigned as of 11 October 2026.

Full UFC career — 2 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-08-08WRichie MirandaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Gamrot vs. Salkilld
2026-03-14WBolaji OkiKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Vallejos

Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.

On the scale

Manoel Sousa’s official weigh-ins — the weight the commission read off the scale, and the limit it had to be under.

DateOpponentWeight / limitDivisionSource
2026-08-08Richie Miranda156 / 156MADELightweightUFC.com
2026-03-14Bolaji Oki155 / 156MADELightweightUFC.com

Weigh-in results cover the 31 UFC cards held in 2026 so far — 24 January 2026 to 12 September 2026. Earlier years are not on file yet, so a fighter with no row here is not a fighter who never missed weight.

On the map

The 1 city Manoel Sousa has fought a UFC bout in and the hometown on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 2 bouts, 2026Hometown: Acarau, Ceara

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

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