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Events · UFC 39: The Warriors Return · Matt Lindland vs Ivan Salaverry
From the tape · 27 Sep 2002

Matt Lindland vs Ivan Salaverry

UFC 39: The Warriors Return · Uncasville, Connecticut, USA
Result

Matt Lindland beat Ivan Salaverry

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Kipp Kollar

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

ML
Red corner MattLindland“The Law”Team Quest · Eagle Creek, Oregon
VSOn the tape
IS
Blue corner IvanSalaverryIvan Salaverry MMA · Seattle, Washington
Middleweight3 rounds27 Sep 2002
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Carries 24 points more striking defence than Lindland.
  • 5 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Salaverry.
22-9
Record
14-9
32
Age
−1 yr31
6' 0"
Height
6' 0"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+45
UFC bouts
1
2/450% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Team Quest
Gym
Ivan Salaverry MMA
Eagle Creek, Oregon
From
Seattle, Washington
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Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Matt Lindland2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%1 of 1
Ivan Salaverry4 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY50%2 of 2LEGS50%2 of 3
2 of 9
Sig.
strikes
4 of 5
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:40
Control
0:00
Distance 0Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Matt Lindland8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Ivan Salaverry6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 9BODY67%4 of 4LEGS17%1 of 2
8 of 13
Sig.
strikes
6 of 15
3 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:03
Control
0:36
Distance 0Clinch 2Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Matt Lindland6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 37BODY0%0 of 2LEGS17%1 of 2
Ivan Salaverry22 sig landed
HEAD14%3 of 28BODY18%4 of 5LEGS68%15 of 17
6 of 41
Sig.
strikes
22 of 50
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:16
Control
0:00
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Kipp Kollar
Official totals — Matt Lindland first
JudgeTotal
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% wide29–28
Doug Crosby2.3 avg spread · 51% wide30–28

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Fan vote · unofficial

30-28 Lindland · 50%29-28 Lindland · 50%

4 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

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Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Matt Lindland

3.01takedowns / 15 min
3.01 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.49 / 15m
6.27 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.72 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
18%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.50 / 15m

Ivan Salaverry

0.49takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Matt Lindland vs Ivan Salaverry.

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