Jefferson Nascimento

UFC.

Key moments

• The fight reached the fourth round before Nascimento found the finish.
• He won by front kick to the body at exactly 2:00 of round four.
• It was his second interim LFA lightweight title defense before jumping to the UFC 29 days later.

Nascimento edged Gomes by split decision over three rounds, adding a close but useful win to the stretch that moved him into larger regional spots.

Key moments

• The fight went the full 15 minutes and required the judges.
• Nascimento left with a split decision rather than a clean sweep on the cards.
• That kind of narrow win helped build the decision experience he later used in title fights.

Nascimento made a fast impression in his first 2023 appearance by stopping Matheus Rocha with punches just 1:18 into round one at LFA 151.

Key moments

• The finish came 78 seconds into the opening round.
• The stoppage came at lightweight after his previous two wins had been logged at heavier weights.
• He followed it later that year with a split-decision win over Italo Gomes and a quick TKO of Gabriel Costa.

The second-round finish mattered because it came only months after a decision win in LFA, reinforcing that he could return to shorter-form aggression when the matchup opened up.

Key moments

• Nascimento secured the anaconda-choke finish at 3:12 of round two.
• It was his sixth straight professional win and his third by submission.
• The bout took place at welterweight in Shooto Brazil after his spring LFA appearance.
• He returned two months later and blitzed Matheus Rocha in his first 2023 fight.

Nascimento went the full three rounds with Uyran Carlos and took a unanimous decision in his first documented LFA win.

Key moments

• All three rounds were completed before Nascimento got the unanimous nod.
• It came less than two months after the first-round submission of Yuri Neles.
• This was one of the early distance wins that built his comfort in longer fights.

It was a quieter win than some of his early finishes, but it widened the evidence that he could hold shape over a full fifteen minutes as well as close fights early.

Key moments

• The fight lasted the full three rounds and went unanimously to Nascimento.
• The bout came at welterweight on the Shooto Brazil main card.
• He opened the next year with a first-round submission of Yuri Neles.

Nascimento closed his 2020 schedule by outpointing Bruno Cardoso over three rounds at Shooto Brazil 106. After back-to-back stoppages earlier that year, the decision showed he was already capable of switching from aggressive finishing to measured round-winning when the matchup demanded it.

Key moments

• Nascimento went the full three rounds before getting a unanimous decision.
• The win took him to 3-0 as a professional.
• It came after consecutive stoppage victories over Daniel Santos and Marcio Francisco.
• This was his first recorded fight at lightweight after earlier wins at higher contracted weights.

Nascimento scored another stoppage in his second pro year by finishing Marcio Francisco with punches in round two at Shooto Brazil 101.

Key moments

• The stoppage came 2:20 into the second round.
• This bout was contested at a 174-pound catchweight on the Shooto Brazil card.
• He pivoted from this finish to a three-round decision over Bruno Cardoso later that year.

Nascimento needed almost the full fifteen minutes to break Daniel Santos, eventually getting the TKO with punches at 4:23 of round three in the MAC 1 co-main event. That mattered as an early sign of patience: he could finish, but he did not need an immediate blitz to keep control of a fight.

Key moments

• The stoppage came late in the third round at 4:23.
• It was Nascimento's first professional win by strikes.
• He followed it with another TKO over Marcio Francisco later in 2020.