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History · 2007 · UFC 77: Hostile Territory · Anderson Silva vs Rich Franklin
From the tape · 20 Oct 2007

Anderson Silva vs Rich Franklin

UFC 77: Hostile Territory · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Result

Anderson Silva beat Rich Franklin

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 5
Clock
1:07
Middleweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · 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.

AS
Red corner AndersonSilva“The Spider”Curitiba, Parana
VSOn the tape
RF
Blue corner RichFranklin“Ace”Team Extreme · Cincinnati, Ohio
Middleweight Title5 rounds20 Oct 2007
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Silva’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has finished 7 of 9 UFC wins.
34-11
Record
29-7
−1 yr32
Age
33
+1″6' 2"
Height
6' 1"
+1″77″
Reach
76″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
4
UFC bouts
+610
+22%4/4100% of wins
Finishes
7/978% of wins
Curitiba, Parana
From
Cincinnati, Ohio
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Silva
Anderson Silva27 sig landed
HEAD56%15 of 20BODY37%10 of 11LEGS7%2 of 2
Rich Franklin18 sig landed
HEAD39%7 of 27BODY28%5 of 5LEGS33%6 of 7
27 of 33
Sig.
strikes
18 of 39
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:42
Control
1:31
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 17Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 5Ground 0
Round 21:07 of action⚡ 2 KD SilvaEnded 1:07
Anderson Silva12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 11BODY8%1 of 1LEGS17%2 of 2
Rich Franklin4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 14BODY50%2 of 2LEGS25%1 of 1
12 of 14
Sig.
strikes
4 of 17
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:12
Control
0:00
2
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 2Clinch 10Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Anderson Silva

Round
2
Clock
1:07
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: John McCarthy.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Anderson Silva

0.50takedowns / 15 min
0.50 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.31 / 15m
0.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.98 / 15m
77%
ACCURACY
66%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Rich Franklin

1.31takedowns / 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

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Anderson Silva↓ −3.7pp
open 70.6%close 66.9%
Rich Franklin↑ +3.7pp
open 29.4%close 33.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Anderson Silva opened at 70.6% and closed at 66.9% (−3.7pp), with Rich Franklin moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Anderson Silva-300-23070.6%66.9%−3.7pp
Rich Franklin22019029.4%33.1%+3.7pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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