UFC BJJ 12 Card Breakdown: Cassia Moura Chases a Second Belt Against Adele Fornarino

UFC BJJ 12 runs tonight at Meta Apex in Las Vegas, live on UFC Fight Pass from 5:00 PM PT (8:00 PM ET), and two belts are on the line. Cassia Moura, already the UFC BJJ bantamweight champion, meets Adele Fornarino for the first women’s flyweight title, and Renato Canuto and Ethan Crelinsten wrestle for the vacant lightweight title. UFC BJJ results below are as the UFC’s match by match preview describes them, and titles from other events are from the official results of the IBJJF and ADCC.

Main event: The first women’s flyweight champion

Cassia Moura vs. Adele Fornarino · women’s flyweight title

This is the final of the UFC BJJ women’s flyweight grand prix. Moura won the bantamweight title with a split decision over Ffion Davies at UFC BJJ 6, defended it with a second round rear naked choke of Sabrina Gondim at UFC BJJ 8, and reached this final by armbarring Bre Stikk in the first round at UFC BJJ 10, according to the UFC. The LEAD BJJ athlete is 20 years old, per the UFC, and her IBJJF black belt titles include feather at the 2024 No-Gi World Championship and the 2026 European Championship, plus the heavy division at the 2025 No-Gi World Championship as the IBJJF’s results list it.

Fornarino won both the under 55kg division and the absolute at the 2024 ADCC World Championship, according to ADCC, and she is the reigning IBJJF No-Gi world champion at feather after winning that division in 2025. In UFC BJJ she has two first round leg lock finishes: a kneebar on Alexandria Enriquez at UFC BJJ 7 and a straight ankle lock on Carol Brunacio in the grand prix semifinal at UFC BJJ 10.

Co-main event: Canuto drops to lightweight

Renato Canuto vs. Ethan Crelinsten · vacant lightweight title

This is Canuto’s second UFC BJJ title shot. His first came at welterweight against Andrew Tackett, and since then he has won decisions over Alan Sanchez and Yonathan Cárdenas before dropping to 155 pounds, according to the UFC. Crelinsten, from Canada, has one UFC BJJ match so far: a first round rear naked choke of Danilo Moreira at UFC BJJ 8.

Durinho’s second UFC BJJ match

Gilbert Burns vs. Gabriel Almeida · middleweight

Burns, the former UFC welterweight title challenger, beat Horlando Monteiro at UFC BJJ 9 in June in his first UFC BJJ match, and his jiu-jitsu résumé goes back a long way: he won black belt light at the 2011 IBJJF World Championship for Atos, according to IBJJF results. Almeida, a fellow Brazilian who lives and trains in Long Beach, California, makes his UFC BJJ debut after two UFC Fight Pass Invitational appearances in 2024, and the UFC describes him as a jiu-jitsu world champion.

The rest of the card

• Danielle Kelly vs. Thaynara Victória, women’s strawweight. Kelly, who won gold in ONE Championship per the UFC, beat Ana Lima on her UFC BJJ debut at UFC BJJ 10 in August. Victória, described by the UFC as a teammate of Moura, makes her debut; she won black belt light feather at the 2025 IBJJF Pan Championship and took bronze in that division at the 2026 World Championship, according to IBJJF results.
• Landon Elmore vs. Max Livingston, lightweight. Elmore submitted Nate Hernandez at UFC BJJ 4, then lost decisions to Rerisson Gabriel and Keith Krikorian. Livingston, a regular on CFFC BJJ cards, was submitted by Liam Crelinsten at UFC BJJ 8.
• Kade Anastasios vs. Ataíde Rafael, welterweight. Both debut, and the UFC describes both as IBJJF No-Gi world champions and Rafael as a former Abu Dhabi Grand Slam champion. Anastasios took bronze at middle at the 2024 IBJJF Pan No-Gi Championship, according to IBJJF results.
• Kyle O’Hare vs. Raphael Ferreira, featherweight. O’Hare, a former unbeaten amateur MMA fighter, makes his debut. Ferreira submitted Kenzo Biyong at UFC BJJ 7 and was caught in a triangle by John Chandler with two seconds left at UFC BJJ 9.
• John Chandler vs. Raphael Gomez, lightweight, the opening match. Chandler won that buzzer beater over Ferreira on his debut, and Gomez makes his first UFC BJJ appearance.

Divisions are as listed on the UFC’s fight card page, published September 30.

How to watch

UFC Fight Pass, from 5:00 PM PT (8:00 PM ET). The full card, and the results once they are in, are on our UFC BJJ 12 event page, and the Weekend Ahead has everything else on this weekend’s calendar.