2024 is approaching fast and so is the first Fight Night event of the year on January 13. Portuguese-Angolan star Manel Kape will be back in action on the main card against Matheus Nicolau at UFC Vegas 84. He started his UFC career with two consecutive losses. The first one came at the hands of flyweight champion Alexandre Pantoja and the second one came at the hands of his upcoming opponent, Matheus Nicolau. Since then, Kape’s racked up an impressive 4-fight winning streak.

While his fighting career is well documented, his personal life and his background details aren’t. So let’s take a deep dive into the upcoming star’s ethnicity, religion, nationality, and more.

Where is Manel Kape from? His ethnicity and nationality

The 30-year-old flyweight fighter has his roots in Africa and was born in the Angolan capital city of Luanda. Besides his regional origins, Manel Kape is also of Portuguese descent, making the 6th-ranked UFC fighter a dual national. However, the details of his religious beliefs are not known, although some people believe he practices Christianity.

When it comes to Manel Kape’s life growing up, there is also not much information available. The only known detail about the Portuguese-Angolan fighter is that he started his professional MMA career back in 2012. Since then, ‘Starboy’ hasn’t turned back and is now a part of the world’s biggest MMA promotion. ‘Starboy’ is also seemingly a family man.

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Is ‘Starboy’ married? Does he have a daughter?

When we turned our focus to Manel Kape’s relationship status, for a long time we thought that the Portuguese-Angolan fighter was single. He never mentioned anything about his girlfriend or wife anywhere. However, it was recently revealed that Kape has a wife named Julia Kukharchuk. It isn’t known when they got married, but they have a child together.

Manel Kape has a daughter named Amy Kape. It was revealed after he shared images of his daughter on social media, which was unexpected given that the 30-year-old mostly keeps his personal life private. Kape’s wife and daughter also attended one of his recent fights at the UFC Apex.

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While his personal life looks sorted and happy, his fighting career is blooming as well. With a winning streak under his belt, Manel Kape will look to avenge his 2021 loss in the rematch against Matheus Nicolau. As such, we will have to wait and see if the 30-year-old finds himself in title contention if he wins at UFC Vegas 84.

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