Istela Nunes Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Event	Date
L	Loma Lookboonmee Women's Strawweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Murphy	Apr 5, 2025
L	Viktoriia Dudakova Women's Strawweight	KO/TKO	to Injury	R1	0:34	UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Bueno Silva	Jul 15, 2023
L	Yazmin Jauregui Women's Strawweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head From Guard	R2	4:06	UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Holland	Dec 3, 2022
L	Sam Hughes Women's Strawweight	Decision	Majority	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Muhammad	Apr 16, 2022
L	Ariane Carnelossi Women's Strawweight	Submission	Rear Naked Choke	R3	2:57	UFC Fight Night: Ladd vs. Dumont	Oct 16, 2021

Outside the UFC

6-1, 1 NCacross 8 bouts · 6 promotions · wins by 2 KO · 4 decONE · FLC 2 · NCE 4 · Imortal FC 2 · 3FC +1

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Gina Iniong9-4	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	ONE	Jul 7, 2018
L	Angela Lee11-3	Submission	Anaconda Choke	R2	2:18	ONE	May 26, 2017
W	Mei Yamaguchi21-16-1	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	ONE	Aug 13, 2016
W	Karoline Martins Moreira9-5	KO/TKO	Head Kicks	R3	3:00	FLC 2	Apr 21, 2016
W	Thais Camila de Oliveira0-1	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	NCE 4	Jan 30, 2016
NC	Caroline Silva1-3	No Contest	Silva KO'd By Illegal Soccer Kicks	R1	—	Imortal FC 2	Dec 13, 2015
W	Maria Vega3-6-2	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	3FC	Nov 21, 2015
W	Cynthia Candido1-6	KO/TKO	Knees	R1	3:42	PRVT	Oct 18, 2015

Non-UFC bouts (regional/other promotions) and Dana White’s Contender Series — shown for context only, excluded from Schedule Score, striking/grappling rates, and every UFC-scoped metric.

Method of victory & defeat

KO / TKO

2 wins, 2 losses

W2

L2

Submission

0 wins, 2 losses

W0

L2

Decision

4 wins, 2 losses

W4

L2

Finishes

UFC KOs

0

Below avg · 6%Strawweight

Knockdowns / fight

0.20

UFC submissions

0

Below avg · 8%Strawweight

Submission attempts / fight

0.00

KO history

Knockout power and chin durability (UFC; clean KOs only).

Istela Nunes

PowerChin

Knockout rate

—

No UFC win on record

Knockdowns dealt

—

No UFC win on record

Clean KO losses

1

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

2

1.20 per 100 head

Chin gauges use a league scale: green = clean record, red = bottom ~10% of UFC fighters (4+ KO losses · 6+ knockdowns absorbed).

Decision behavior

Judging

2 scorecards on file

Istela Nunes

Scorecard luck

Wrong end of the cards

Won just 0 of 1 coin-flip decision — repeatedly on the wrong end of close calls. Judges have given them 1 of 2 rounds they disagreed on (50%).

Coin-flip decisions

Split + majority

0–1

Won – Lost

Swing rounds

Judges disagreed

1–1

Won – Lost

50% went their way

Unanimous1 decision · 50%

1L

Split

None

Majority1 decision · 50%

1L

10-8 rounds

3 rounds total

0

Won

3

Lost

Most frequent judges

All judges →

Scorecard data ingested from MMA Decisions

Career striking

OverallC51st

47%225 / 475

Striking accuracy

59%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min+0.21 differential

Landed4.28

Absorbed4.07

53%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

+6%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head52%—117
Body29%—66
Leg19%—42

Color = division rank · green elite → red low · % = share of strikes

Sig. strikes by position

89%Standing

Standing89%200
Clinch11%24
Ground0%1

Striking zones

Per-15-minute breakdown — where this fighter lands, and where they get hit.

UFC only

Istela Nunes

Landed per 15

Head

33.4

Body

18.8

Leg

12.0

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Absorbed per 15

Head

47.6

Body

9.1

Leg

4.3

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Career totals — landed / attempted

Landed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	33.4	117	332	35%
Body	18.8	66	95	69%
Leg	12.0	42	48	88%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	47.6	167	453	37%
Body	9.1	32	59	54%
Leg	4.3	15	19	79%

UFCStats career rates, per 15 minutes. Percentiles vs the division; absorbed is inverted so higher is better.

Grappling

Per-15-minute breakdown of takedowns, submissions, and ground control.

UFC only

Istela Nunes

0%

Takedown accuracy

48%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min-4.1 min net

On top1.0

On bottom5.1

Offense

Takedowns

0.0

TD accuracy

0%

Sub attempts

0.0

Control

1.0 min

Defense

TD defense

48%

Controlled

5.1 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	0 / 1
Submission attempts	0
Control time	3:30

Defense

TDs defended	10 / 21
Control absorbed	18:00

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (53min total). Value colors reflect the per-15 rate’s percentile against the current weight class baseline; raw totals without a division reference stay neutral.

Pace & fade

Round-by-round work rate, and whether they fade.

UFC only

Istela Nunes

5 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 53 min

39%

R3 pace · 3 bouts

Nunes fades (-41% per round through round 3). Within fights that reached round 3, Nunes drops to 39% of round-1 output by round 3 (3 bouts).

Nunes ▼ FADESOutput / min

Rounds backed by fewer than 2 bouts are drawn smaller and dimmed with an n= count — a deep round seen in one or two fights is a thin sample, not a settled rate. Per-round bout counts are in the breakdown below.

Full per-round breakdown

What drives the pace · per round

The composite output line above blends these three inputs — splitting them out shows whether the work rate is built on striking volume, takedown pressure, or top control, and which input fades.

Sig. strikes landed

Nuneslanded / min

Takedown attempts

Nunesattempts / min

Control time

Nunes% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	6.2	5.8	3.8	0.05	6%	5
R2	4.2	3.9	4.7	0.00	9%	4
R3	2.6	2.5	3.6	0.00	4%	3

Output / minis the headline work rate — significant strikes landed, plus 3 per takedown attempt, plus one per 15 seconds of control — so a takedown-and-grind round isn’t scored as idle the way bare striking volume would. The remaining columns are its components. Per-round rates use UFCStats per-round data (available for ~95% of bouts since 2008). Each round’s rates are averaged only over bouts that reached that round, so the bout count shrinks as rounds deepen. The final round of a finished fight is pro-rated by its actual length.

Schedule Score

Opponent quality, ranked across the UFC. Recent fights weighted heavier.

UFC only

Istela Nunes

5 resolved UFC bouts

Schedule Score

31/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

D

35th

27%

35th

Win quality

F

15th

27%

15th

Limited UFC sample (5 bouts). The headline Schedule Score is held toward a rookie baseline until a fighter has 6+ UFC bouts — a thin UFC résumé hasn’t yet proven a strong schedule. The component bars above are not down-weighted.

Opponent quality distribution

Every UFC bout, grouped by who the opponent was at the time.

1

3

Top-15Ranked #6–#15 at the time
Established5+ UFC wins entering the bout, ≥.500
Building3+ UFC fights, ≥.40 win rate

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Top-15	1	0-1	0%
Established	1	0-1	0%
Building	3	0-3	0%

Highest-quality opponents

Toughest opponents on the scheduleScore, scored at the time of the fight.

Pre-UFC opposition

Moderate

Opponents' combined record

55-44-3

.556 win rate

Winning-record opponents

4 of 8

carried winning pro records

Pro bouts faced

8

all opponents have records on file

A descriptive read of the non-UFC slate from opponents’ full career pro records — not a UFC-grade Schedule Score.

All bouts — opponent quality bout-by-bout

Res	Opponent	Tier	Score	Date
L	Loma Lookboonmee	Top-15	51	Apr 5, 2025
L	Viktoriia Dudakova	Building	15	Jul 15, 2023
L	Yazmin Jauregui	Building	15	Dec 3, 2022
L	Sam Hughes	Established	22	Apr 16, 2022
L	Ariane Carnelossi	Building	15	Oct 16, 2021

Per-bout quality scoring: champion = 100; same-division ranks 1–5 = 90 → 78 linear; ranks 6–15 = 75 → 60 linear; cross-division champion = 78; cross-division ranked = 45; title-fight challenger (no rank signal) = 50, bumped to 65 when opp had an elite career UFC record at the time. Unranked opponents are scored on UFC record-at-time (long-tenured vet 60, contender-level 45, established 30, building 18, unproven 8). P4P top-10 at time adds +5; top-3 adds +8 (capped at 100). The Schedule Score combines schedule strength (65%) and quality wins (35%), then is held toward a rookie baseline for fighters with limited UFC experience so a thin résumé reads honestly low.

Career cohorts

5 resolved UFC bouts

Performance broken down by situation — camp length, response to the previous result, title-fight presence, and rematches. Computed across every completed UFC bout.

Camp length

Days between fights

Short turnaround

< 100 days

—

Typical camp

100–180 days

—

Long layoff

> 180 days

0-4

4 bouts

UFC debut

first UFC bout

0-1

1 bout

Post-result bounce

Performance based on the previous UFC result

After a loss

next bout after a defeat

0-4

4 bouts

After a win

next bout after a win

—

First UFC bout

no precedent

0-1

1 bout

Title fights

Performance with a belt on the line

All title fights

as challenger or champion

—

As champion

defending the belt

—

As challenger

fighting for the belt

—

Rematches

Performance when meeting an opponent again

All rematches

any second meeting

—

Revenge bouts

lost the first meeting

—

Encore bouts

won the first meeting

—

Activity & layoff

Last fight, activity, and divisional context.

Time since last UFC bout

1y 3mo

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Istela Nunes

Layoff

1y 3mosince last bout

vs Loma Lookboonmee · Apr 5, 2025

DraftKings fantasy scoring

DFSAs favorite 0-1As underdog 0-4

23.5

DK avg

25.5

Median

32.0

Ceiling

23.3

Floor

0%

Boom

20%

Bust

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