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Felipe Lima

Featherweight · REAL v1.0 (registered) #17; v1.1 (shadow) #19

Descriptive profile. The resume rank is what has been earned; these statistics are context, not a prediction. A test on Oct 20, 2026 found that career statistics add nothing reliable to age, layoff and experience as predictors of the next result (experiments/REGISTER.md, EXP-2026-10-20-14).

Weight band 16-20: the 10th to 90th percentile of his position across weight vectors drawn near the 70/30 weights. Rating 1,609, deviation 178: measured from 4 UFC bouts; a one-bout newcomer sits near 290.

Age 28 (born 1998-05-07) · Height 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) · Reach 68 in (173 cm) · Stance Orthodox · 57 days since last bout (2026-09-05) · Last five 3-1 · Streak W1

Why he is ranked here

Rating 1,609 is the division's 16th highest of 94 board fighters; the ledger stands at -1.0 (less 1.0 for other losses outside the top 5; losses count for three years); 0 quality wins in 15 years, 0 over top-10 opponents; no form penalty (3-1 last five). Score +0.23 = +0.23 (rating term, 70% weight) +0.00 (ledger term, 30% weight) -0.00 (form penalty); score order put him at #17.

TermValueDetail
Score+0.2370% rating term + 30% ledger term - form penalty
Rating term+0.23resume rating 1,609, scaled against the division's interdecile range
Ledger term+0.00quality ledger -1.0: +0.0 QW +0.0 proof -0.0 blowout -1.0 weak
Form penalty0.00last five 3-1
Quality wins, 15 years00 over top-10 opponents, 0 over top-15
Placementscore order #17v1.0 (registered)
Shadow board v1.1#19score +0.13; score order #19

Rules, weights and worked examples: methodology.

All 4 UFC bouts

DateEventOpponentOpp. official rankResultMethodRoundModel p
2026-09-05UFC Fight Night: Hooker vs. ParnasseMorgan CharriereunrankedWunanimous decision3 (5:00)53%
2025-06-28UFC 317: Topuria vs. OliveiraPayton TalbottunrankedLunanimous decision3 (5:00)53%
2024-12-14UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. BuckleyMiles JohnsunrankedWunanimous decision3 (5:00)48%
2024-06-22UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. AliskerovMuhammad NaimovunrankedWsubmission3 (1:15)32%

Opp. official rank = the UFC media-panel rank of the opponent on the date (C champion, #1 to #15, unranked; n/a before Feb 2013 or where no official board existed). Model p = the predictive model's pre-fight win chance for him (frozen performance-adjusted Elo; bouts before 2020 were in its tuning sample). Linked opponents have a profile.

Career statistics

Through 2026-10-31, UFC bouts only. Percentile = share of the 94 board fighters at Featherweight at or below this value; high is a position in the division, not a verdict.

Output
Significant strikes landed per minute4.09(53rd percentile at Featherweight)
Significant strike accuracy48%(52nd percentile at Featherweight)
Knockdowns scored per 15 minutes0.00(37th percentile at Featherweight)
Share of wins by finish33%(28th percentile at Featherweight)
Defence and damage
Significant strikes absorbed per minute2.77(23rd percentile at Featherweight)
Significant strike defence68%(98th percentile at Featherweight)
Knockdowns suffered per 15 minutes0.00(36th percentile at Featherweight)
Significant strikes absorbed, career156(52nd percentile at Featherweight)
KO/TKO losses0(41st percentile at Featherweight)
Submission losses0(77th percentile at Featherweight)
KO/TKO losses per bout over 10 years, each weighted down by the finisher's danger0.000(41st percentile at Featherweight)
Grappling
Takedowns landed per 15 minutes2.13(71st percentile at Featherweight)
Takedown defence90%(92nd percentile at Featherweight)
Share of cage time in control14%(52nd percentile at Featherweight)
Share of significant strikes landed in the clinch or on the ground8%(24th percentile at Featherweight)
Stylemixed (6.4 takedown attempts per 15 min; 14% control)
Career stage
Age28.5(19th percentile at Featherweight)
Age at UFC debut26.1(27th percentile at Featherweight)
Years since UFC debut2.4(46th percentile at Featherweight)
UFC bouts4(53rd percentile at Featherweight)
Cage time, minutes56(60th percentile at Featherweight)
Bouts per year, last three years1.7(62nd percentile at Featherweight)
Days since last bout57(33rd percentile at Featherweight)

Board position since Oct 2023

C1020304020252026Oct 2023Oct 20262024-06-28: #22, Featherweight2024-07-12: #21, Featherweight2024-07-19: #21, Featherweight2024-07-26: #23, Featherweight2024-08-02: #23, Featherweight2024-08-09: #24, Featherweight2024-08-16: #23, Featherweight2024-08-23: #23, Featherweight2024-09-06: #23, Featherweight2024-09-13: #22, Featherweight2024-09-27: #23, Featherweight2024-10-04: #25, Featherweight2024-10-11: #25, Featherweight2024-10-18: #24, Featherweight2024-10-25: #25, Featherweight2024-11-01: #25, Featherweight2024-11-08: #26, Featherweight2024-11-15: #26, Featherweight2024-11-22: #26, Featherweight2024-12-06: #26, Featherweight2024-12-13: #26, Featherweight2025-01-10: #23, Featherweight2025-01-17: #23, Featherweight2025-01-31: #23, Featherweight2025-02-07: #23, Featherweight2025-02-14: #23, Featherweight2025-02-21: #22, Featherweight2025-02-28: #22, Featherweight2025-03-07: #22, Featherweight2025-03-14: #22, Featherweight2025-03-21: #22, Featherweight2025-03-28: #22, Featherweight2025-04-04: #22, Featherweight2025-04-11: #23, Featherweight2025-04-25: #20, Featherweight2025-05-02: #20, Featherweight2025-05-09: #20, Featherweight2025-05-16: #20, Featherweight2025-05-30: #20, Featherweight2025-06-06: #20, Featherweight2025-06-13: #20, Featherweight2025-06-20: #19, Featherweight2025-06-27: #19, Featherweight2025-07-11: #26, Featherweight2025-07-18: #27, Featherweight2025-07-25: #27, Featherweight2025-08-01: #28, Featherweight2025-08-08: #29, Featherweight2025-08-15: #29, Featherweight2025-08-22: #29, Featherweight2025-09-05: #29, Featherweight2025-09-12: #29, Featherweight2025-09-26: #29, Featherweight2025-10-03: #29, Featherweight2025-10-10: #28, Featherweight2025-10-17: #28, Featherweight2025-10-24: #27, Featherweight2025-10-31: #26, Featherweight2025-11-07: #28, Featherweight2025-11-14: #28, Featherweight2025-11-21: #28, Featherweight2025-12-05: #28, Featherweight2025-12-12: #28, Featherweight2026-01-23: #26, Featherweight2026-01-30: #27, Featherweight2026-02-06: #27, Featherweight2026-02-20: #27, Featherweight2026-02-27: #26, Featherweight2026-03-06: #26, Featherweight2026-03-13: #25, Featherweight2026-03-20: #25, Featherweight2026-03-27: #25, Featherweight2026-04-03: #25, Featherweight2026-04-10: #25, Featherweight2026-04-17: #25, Featherweight2026-04-24: #24, Featherweight2026-05-01: #24, Featherweight2026-05-08: #25, Featherweight2026-05-15: #25, Featherweight2026-05-29: #26, Featherweight2026-06-05: #26, Featherweight2026-06-13: #25, Featherweight2026-06-19: #25, Featherweight2026-06-26: #26, Featherweight2026-07-10: #28, Featherweight2026-07-17: #29, Featherweight2026-07-24: #31, Featherweight2026-07-31: #32, Featherweight2026-08-07: #32, Featherweight2026-08-14: #32, Featherweight2026-08-21: #32, Featherweight2026-08-28: #31, Featherweight2026-09-04: #32, Featherweight2026-09-11: #18, Featherweight2026-09-18: #19, Featherweight2026-09-25: #18, Featherweight2026-09-26: #18, Featherweight2026-10-03: #18, Featherweight2026-10-10: #17, Featherweight2026-10-17: #17, Featherweight2026-10-24: #18, Featherweight2026-10-31: #17, Featherweight#17

Position on the registered v1.0 board at each weekly snapshot (C = title holder or reserved, drawn at the top; lower is better). Absent from 30 of 132 snapshots (gaps in the line).

Predictive rating by bout

1,5501,6001,65020252026Jun 2024Oct 20262024-06-22: 1,559 (W vs Muhammad Naimov)2024-12-14: 1,615 (W vs Miles Johns)2025-06-28: 1,562 (L vs Payton Talbott)2026-09-05: 1,639 (W vs Morgan Charriere)1,639

Rating after each UFC bout from the frozen predictive model (performance-adjusted Elo, data/processed/elo_history.csv; a debut starts at 1,500). The resume rating's history is not stored, so this is the predictive line, which is a different number from the resume rating in the header.

Trajectory

Recent performances run about 44 points ahead of the rating: fighters this age typically run 28 points ahead of their rating, and his own recent results put him a further 16 points ahead.

ComponentPointsMeaning
Age component+28what fighters aged 28.5 typically run relative to their rating (population curve, all UFC bouts since 2011)
Own recent results+16his recency-weighted mean and trend over 4 bouts, shrunk toward zero; trend -0 points a year
Combined+44the rating's likely distance from his current performance level, in rating points
Readingahead of ratingahead of, in line with (within 30 points), or behind the rating

Performance relative to the rating, by age

-1.0-0.5+0.0+0.5+1.025262728292024-06-22 (age 26.1): W vs Muhammad Naimov, residual +0.672024-12-14 (age 26.6): W vs Miles Johns, residual +0.382025-06-28 (age 27.1): L vs Payton Talbott, residual -0.142026-09-05 (age 28.3): W vs Morgan Charriere, residual +0.43+0.06

Each dot is one decided UFC bout at his age then: the performance score minus the rating's expectation, on the score's own scale from -1 to +1 (filled = win, hollow = loss; above zero is better than the rating implied; a finish as a slight favourite is about +0.45). The dashed line is the population curve for all fighters; the solid line is this fighter's own fitted level and trend as of the data date, weighted toward recent bouts. One unit sustained over many bouts corresponds to about 695 rating points; a single bout's residual is noisy.

Held-out evidence (walk-forward 2016 to 2026, EXP-2026-10-21-01): the age curve held in every test year; the individual component is a weak signal (correlation 0.06 with the next bout's residual; among fighters aged 33 or over, the lowest predicted quartile won 38% of next bouts against 53% expected, the highest 48% against 52%) and adds nothing to bout prediction beyond the shadow model. No board uses any of it: the rankings answer who has earned the place, not who wins next (EXP-2026-10-20-09). Method: src/mmalab/decline.py; settings: config/decline.yaml (expectation from the resume rating; one unit of residual is about 695 rating points).

Context flags

Descriptive only. Each line is a population fact about fighters like him, not a forecast for him; the register entries hold the measurements.

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