Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Payton Talbott: bantamweight co-main event preview at UFC 332

The setup

Deiveson Figueiredo (25-7-1) and Payton Talbott (11-1-0) meet at bantamweight as the co-main event when UFC 332 arrives at Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday, October 3, 2026, scheduled for three rounds.

The card carries 10 bouts in our tables. The bout is listed as announced in the PropBetEdge schedule.

The question this preview works through is simple: does either side bring a measurable edge, or is this a matchup the data leaves open? Career-to-date round statistics are on file for both fighters, and the archive holds 22 completed UFC bouts for Deiveson Figueiredo and 7 completed UFC bouts for Payton Talbott.

Tale of the tape

• Record: Deiveson Figueiredo 25-7-1 · Payton Talbott 11-1-0
• Age: Deiveson Figueiredo 38 · Payton Talbott 28
• Height: Deiveson Figueiredo 5'5" · Payton Talbott 5'10"
• Reach: Deiveson Figueiredo 68" · Payton Talbott 70.5"
• Stance: Deiveson Figueiredo Orthodox · Payton Talbott Switch
• Listed weight: Deiveson Figueiredo 135 lbs · Payton Talbott 136 lbs

The 2.5-inch reach gap in Payton Talbott's favour (70.5" to 68") is the tape's headline number; it defines the range each man is working from. A reach edge of that size matters more when the longer fighter also sets the pace, and here Talbott does: 6.62 significant strikes landed per minute against 2.57 for Figueiredo. Length with output behind it is how rounds get banked from the outside. Payton Talbott is the younger by 10 years (28 to 38). Age on its own tells you little at this level; it reads better alongside the layoff figures in the form section. Payton Talbott is listed as a switch-stance fighter, so his lead side can change through the fight and the opponent's setups have to work in both directions.

Recent form

Deiveson Figueiredo has 22 completed UFC bouts in the PropBetEdge archive: 14 wins, 7 losses and 1 draw. 8 of those wins came inside the distance (4 by KO/TKO and 4 by submission), a 57% finish rate on archived wins. He has been finished 4 times in the archive. Most recently he lost to Song Yadong by submission in round 2 on May 30, 2026. That puts him 126 days out by fight night.

• L vs Song Yadong — submission, R2 (May 30, 2026, UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Figueiredo)
• L vs Umar Nurmagomedov — unanimous decision, R3 (Jan 24, 2026, UFC 324: Gaethje vs. Pimblett)
• W vs Montel Jackson — split decision, R3 (Oct 11, 2025, UFC Fight Night: Oliveira vs. Gamrot)
• L vs Cory Sandhagen — KO/TKO, R2 (May 3, 2025, UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Figueiredo)
• L vs Petr Yan — unanimous decision, R5 (Nov 23, 2024, UFC Fight Night: Yan vs. Figueiredo)

Payton Talbott has 7 completed UFC bouts in the PropBetEdge archive: 6 wins and 1 loss. 3 of those wins came inside the distance (2 by KO/TKO and 1 by submission), a 50% finish rate on archived wins. The loss went to the scorecards. He last fought on Dec 6, 2025 and beat Henry Cejudo by unanimous decision in round 3. That puts him 301 days out by fight night.

• W vs Henry Cejudo — unanimous decision, R3 (Dec 6, 2025, UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2)
• W vs Felipe Lima — unanimous decision, R3 (Jun 28, 2025, UFC 317: Topuria vs. Oliveira)
• L vs Raoni Barcelos — unanimous decision, R3 (Jan 18, 2025, UFC 311: Makhachev vs. Moicano)
• W vs Yanis Ghemmouri — KO/TKO, R1 (Jun 29, 2024, UFC 303: Pereira vs. Prochazka 2)
• W vs Cameron Saaiman — KO/TKO, R2 (Mar 23, 2024, UFC Fight Night: Ribas vs. Namajunas)

Deiveson Figueiredo is the more recently active of the two (126 days out against 301 for Talbott).

Style and statistical matchup

Deiveson Figueiredo lands 2.57 significant strikes per minute at 53% accuracy; Payton Talbott lands 6.62 at 56%. That 4.05-per-minute gap in Payton Talbott's favour is a real pace differential: over three rounds it compounds into a scorecard edge unless the lower-volume fighter is landing the more damaging shots. On the other side of the exchange, Deiveson Figueiredo absorbs 3.43 per minute with 49% striking defence and Payton Talbott absorbs 3.41 with 46%.

On the ground, Deiveson Figueiredo averages 1.61 takedowns per 15 minutes at 34% accuracy and defends 57% of attempts against him; Payton Talbott averages 0.78 at 44% and defends 77%. Payton Talbott's 20-point takedown-defence edge is the grappling number to weigh: it limits how often the fight leaves the striking exchanges. Deiveson Figueiredo attempts 1.2 submissions per 15 minutes, the higher rate of the two, so any ground time carries a finishing threat.

All of these are career-to-date PropSports round-statistics snapshots at capture, not as-of figures for this bout: they describe each fighter across every opponent, which is why the archive form above is read alongside them rather than replaced by them.

Round-level PropSports data exists for 59 archived rounds of Deiveson Figueiredo's: 718 of 1332 significant strikes landed (54%), 12.2 per round, 30 of 86 takedowns, 43:48 of control time and 12 knockdowns. Round-level PropSports data exists for 15 archived rounds of Payton Talbott's: 362 of 614 significant strikes landed (59%), 24.1 per round, 4 of 8 takedowns, 13:41 of control time and 3 knockdowns. Those samples are small and uneven, so they colour the career averages rather than override them.

What could break the angle

Start with what is missing. Career averages are career-to-date snapshots at capture; they include fights outside this matchup context and are not as-of figures. There is also no odds snapshot in PropBetEdge data for this bout, so nothing above can be checked against a market yet; the read describes what to look for, not where value sits. A late weigh-in miss, a replacement or a change in scheduled rounds would each invalidate parts of it.

Final read

On the data, neither fighter carries a material edge into this one; the tape is close and the archive does not separate them. The uncertainty is ordinary fight variance rather than missing data. What to monitor: the three-round format holding, the weigh-in, and once a price exists, where the moneyline, fight goes the distance, method of victory, round betting and significant strikes markets open relative to this read. No model price or market line exists in PropBetEdge data for this bout, so this is not a pick; the Bettor's Edge panel above carries the impact score and the markets connected to the evidence.

Matchup page: Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Payton Talbott · Full card: UFC 332: Silva vs. Wang · Fighter pages: Deiveson Figueiredo, Payton Talbott.