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History · 2006 · UFC Fight Night 3 · Tim Sylvia vs Assuerio Silva
From the tape · 16 Jan 2006

Tim Sylvia vs Assuerio Silva

UFC Fight Night 3 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Tim Sylvia beat Assuerio Silva

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
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.

TS
Red corner TimSylvia“The Maine-iac”Bettendorf, Iowa
VSOn the tape
AS
Blue corner AssuerioSilvaCuritiba, Parana
Heavyweight3 rounds16 Jan 2006
The story going in
  • Every one of Sylvia’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Averages 2.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Sylvia.
  • Carries 50 points more takedown defence than Silva.
31-10
Record
16-8
−2 yr29
Age
31
+10″6' 8"
Height
5' 10"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Bettendorf, Iowa
From
Curitiba, Parana
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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
Tim Sylvia36 sig landed
HEAD58%21 of 43BODY33%12 of 13LEGS8%3 of 3
Assuerio Silva8 sig landed
HEAD25%2 of 7BODY12%1 of 2LEGS62%5 of 5
36 of 59
Sig.
strikes
8 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
2:12
Control
0:30
Distance 24Clinch 12Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 3Ground 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
Tim Sylvia27 sig landed
HEAD56%15 of 67BODY26%7 of 8LEGS19%5 of 5
Assuerio Silva16 sig landed
HEAD31%5 of 15BODY44%7 of 11LEGS25%4 of 5
27 of 80
Sig.
strikes
16 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:44
Control
0:03
Distance 23Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 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
Tim Sylvia22 sig landed
HEAD68%15 of 75BODY9%2 of 3LEGS23%5 of 7
Assuerio Silva12 sig landed
HEAD17%2 of 17BODY67%8 of 11LEGS17%2 of 6
22 of 85
Sig.
strikes
12 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:22
Control
0:35
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 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

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · John McCarthy
Official totals — Tim Sylvia first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% wide30–27
Dalby Shirley29–28

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Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Tim Sylvia

0.11takedowns / 15 min
0.11 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.66 / 15m
0.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.82 / 15m
100%
ACCURACY
34%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.80 / 15m

Assuerio Silva

2.66takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Tim Sylvia vs Assuerio Silva.

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