Mateus Soares

Soares scored the fight's only knockdown while out-landing Miyaguchi 20 significant strikes to 5

Soares is 12-2-0 and comes in on wins over Edson dos Anjos and Luiz Pacifico, plus a prior victory over Miyaguchi himself. In that meeting Soares was the only man to do damage: 1 knockdown and 20 significant strikes to Miyaguchi's 5. That bout was a pure stand-up affair with no takedowns and no meaningful control from either man, which is exactly the terrain where Soares' edge showed. Miyaguchi (7-2-0) had split his two fights before that, losing to Chungreng Koren after beating Teruto Ishihara.