Cavalcanti's published profile is a volume striker without an offensive takedown rate: 5.30 significant strikes per minute, 47% accuracy, 69% striking defense, 2.98 absorbed, 0 takedowns per 15 minutes, 86% takedown defense, and 0 submission attempts per 15 minutes. The job in this booking is narrow. She has to make the level change miss, then let the volume gap score. Takedown accuracy is stored as 0 because 0 landed of 2 attempted was too small to publish as a rate.
Montague's UFC rates are two fights: 2.77 per minute, 49% accuracy on 83 of 171, 42% striking defense, 2.47 absorbed, 3.50 takedowns per 15 minutes at 38% on 5 of 13, and 0.00 submission attempts. Takedown defense was not published and is stored as 0. If the shot misses, that striking line is the problem. If it lands and she holds, the volume gap stops being the score. Six of her eight career wins are submissions, and both reviewed UFC wins were decisions. She can submit. The UFC sample has not yet shown it.
Both beat Mayra Bueno Silva by decision, Cavalcanti on November 8, 2025 and Montague on April 25, 2026. Those are two different fights. They are context, not a transitive ranking. Nothing in the snapshot describes the rounds, the control, or which performance was cleaner.
The bodies are close: 68 inches against 69, 70 inches of reach against 68.5, 41 inches of leg reach against 40.5, ages 29 and 32 in the snapshot. The cage is 30 feet at ABHA Arena in Doha, and the bout is three rounds on the preliminary card. Cavalcanti's UFC.com header record is 10-2-0, not an older 14-1 dossier. Tapology lists her #8 and Montague #18. A UFC.com header had said #12 for Montague. Her last reviewed result is a decision loss to Ketlen Vieira, which is a reason for modest conviction and not a description of how that fight was lost.
