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Events · UFC 51: Super Saturday · Tito Ortiz vs Vitor Belfort
From the tape · 5 Feb 2005

Tito Ortiz vs Vitor Belfort

UFC 51: Super Saturday · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Tito Ortiz beat Vitor Belfort

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMainReferee · John McCarthy

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.

TO
Red corner TitoOrtiz“The People's Champ”Team Punishment · Huntington Beach, California
VSOn the tape
VB
Blue corner VitorBelfort“The Phenom”Kill Cliff FC · Rio de Janeiro
Light Heavyweight3 rounds5 Feb 2005
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Belfort’s 7 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • 14 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Belfort.
19-12-1
Record
26-14
30
Age
−3 yr27
+3″6' 3"
Height
6' 0"
74″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+414
UFC bouts
10
7/1070% of wins
Finishes
+30%7/7100% of wins
Team Punishment
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Huntington Beach, California
From
Rio de Janeiro
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

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
Tito Ortiz16 sig landed
HEAD56%9 of 12BODY12%2 of 3LEGS31%5 of 5
Vitor Belfort9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 17BODY22%2 of 2LEGS11%1 of 1
16 of 20
Sig.
strikes
9 of 20
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:29
Control
0:13
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 8Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 8Ground 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 action1 sub attempt
Tito Ortiz4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 7BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Vitor Belfort10 sig landed
HEAD100%10 of 17BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
4 of 8
Sig.
strikes
10 of 17
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:27
Control
2:52
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 10
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
Tito Ortiz7 sig landed
HEAD100%7 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Vitor Belfort0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 1 thrown

7 of 19
Sig.
strikes
0 of 1
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:28
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 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

Split Decision

Referee · John McCarthy
Official totals — Tito Ortiz first
JudgeTotal
Nelson Hamilton2.2 avg spread · 51% wide29–28
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% wide29–28
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide28–29

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

29-28 Belfort · 57%29-28 Ortiz · 34%30-28 Belfort · 4%30-27 Ortiz · 2%29-27 Ortiz · 2%

53 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Tito Ortiz

2.47takedowns / 15 min
2.47 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.02 / 15m
7.06 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.70 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
60%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Vitor Belfort

1.02takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Tito Ortiz vs Vitor Belfort.

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