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Rafael Estevam

UFC 3-1Pro 14-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Rafael Estevam’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Wrestler

UFC recordUFC 3-1 first fight 2023-11-18 · last fight 2026-04-04
Pro record14-1
Current streak1 loss
Last 4 (UFC)L W W W
DivisionFlyweight
Age30
Height5' 8"
StanceOrthodox

5' 8" orthodox wrestler campaigning at Flyweight. 3 UFC wins — 3 decision. Top 5% of Flyweights: averages 4.91 takedowns per 15 minutes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameMacapa
NationalityBrazil
Hometown (per Sherdog)Macapa, Amapa
CampNova Uniao
Height5' 8"
Reach69"
StanceOrthodox
Age30
Date of birthAug 10, 1996
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record14-1
UFC recordUFC 3-1 first fight 2023-11-18 · last fight 2026-04-04
Finish split3 UFC wins — 3 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Rafael Estevam has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Rafael Estevam in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Flyweight6 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 7 October 2025#11–15 · from the table of 18 November 2025Last ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the table
Peak#15Flyweight · Oct 2025
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
CurrentUnrankedsince Nov 2025

Official UFC.com official rankings, 2013–present · rankings of 6 October 2026

A published rank holds until the next table changes it, so a band runs from the table that set it to the table that ended it — that is how a ranking works, and it is why an unbroken reign is drawn unbroken. Nothing is interpolated: the band is the last published STATUS, never a rank in between, and the hatched stretches are weeks the archive holds no table for at all. The champion band sits above #1 because a belt is not a rank. The three pound-for-pound tables — the combined one to January 2020, then the Men's and Women's ones — share a row, because they are one standing under three names.

Career rates facts

Career averages over Rafael Estevam’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 / min2.40
Striking accuracy39%
Strikes absorbed / min3.90
Striking defence45%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min4.91
Takedown accuracy33%
Takedown defence66%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.20

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Flyweight 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 Flyweight.
Striking32
Defence30
Grappling / TD50
Cardio61
Chin36
Fight IQ42

Our calls on Rafael Estevam’s fights

Every fight of Rafael Estevam’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 1 of Rafael Estevam’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–0 — 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
2026-04-04Ethyn EwingEthyn Ewing (against Estevam)51.3%Correct
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Rafael Estevam’s fights, 2 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Rafael Estevam

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

HEAD68.9%ACC 28%BODY17.9%ACC 46%LEGS13.2%ACC 58%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 68.9% upstairs — +5.6 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
68.9% acc 28%+5.6 vs field
BODY
17.9% acc 46%−2.8 vs field
LEGS
13.2% acc 58%−2.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 84%CLINCH 5%GROUND 11%

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.

4 UFC fights · 106 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Rafael Estevam

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

4.91takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 4.91 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +2.74 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS95
4.91 / 15m+2.74 vs field
ATTEMPTS97
14.88 / 15m+9.25 vs field
ACCURACY44
33%−10pp vs field
SUB ATT12
0.20 / 15m−1.03 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.00 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 Flyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 14-1. In the UFC: 3-1. Rafael Estevam’s last 4 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.

Full UFC career — 4 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-04-04LEthyn EwingKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Duncan
2025-08-02WFelipe BunesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Taira vs. Park
2025-02-15WJesus AguilarDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Rodrigues
2023-11-18WCharles JohnsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Craig

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

Rafael Estevam’s official weigh-in — the weight the commission read off the scale, and the limit it had to be under.

DateOpponentWeight / limitDivisionSource
2026-04-04Ethyn Ewing136.5 / 136MISSED by 0.5 lb · 20% of the purse forfeitedBantamweightUFC.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 Rafael Estevam has fought a UFC bout in, the camp on the record 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 — 4 bouts, 2023–2026Camp: Nova UniaoHometown: Macapa, Amapa

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

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