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Events · UFC 79: Nemesis · Chuck Liddell vs Wanderlei Silva
From the tape · 29 Dec 2007

Chuck Liddell vs Wanderlei Silva

UFC 79: Nemesis · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Chuck Liddell beat Wanderlei Silva

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · Herb Dean

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.

CL
Red corner ChuckLiddell“The Iceman”The Pit · San Luis Obispo, California
VSOn the tape
WS
Blue corner WanderleiSilva“The Axe Murderer”Wand Fight Team · Curitiba, Parana
Light Heavyweight3 rounds29 Dec 2007
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 10 of 15 UFC wins.
21-8
Record
35-13-1
38
Age
−7 yr31
+3″6' 2"
Height
5' 11"
+2″76″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1619
UFC bouts
3
10/1567% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
The Pit
Gym
Wand Fight Team
San Luis Obispo, California
From
Curitiba, Parana
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
Chuck Liddell16 sig landed
HEAD94%15 of 52BODY0%0 of 1LEGS6%1 of 4
Wanderlei Silva11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 42BODY0%0 landedLEGS27%3 of 5
16 of 57
Sig.
strikes
11 of 47
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 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⚡ 1 KD Silva
Chuck Liddell17 sig landed
HEAD76%13 of 50BODY12%2 of 2LEGS12%2 of 2
Wanderlei Silva22 sig landed
HEAD68%15 of 68BODY27%6 of 6LEGS5%1 of 1
17 of 54
Sig.
strikes
22 of 75
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:39
Control
0:02
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 11Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 4Ground 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
Chuck Liddell25 sig landed
HEAD92%23 of 61BODY4%1 of 1LEGS4%1 of 2
Wanderlei Silva11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 51BODY0%0 landedLEGS27%3 of 4
25 of 64
Sig.
strikes
11 of 55
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:30
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Official totals — Chuck Liddell first
JudgeTotal
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide29–28
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27

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.

Media cards — 5 scored, Chuck Liddell first · unofficial

Josh Gross Sherdog.com30–27
Fight Metric.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Liddell · 60%30-27 Liddell · 29%29-28 Silva · 5%30-28 Liddell · 4%29-27 Liddell · 1%

85 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.

Chuck Liddell

0.44takedowns / 15 min
0.44 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.97 / 15m
0.59 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.83 / 15m
75%
ACCURACY
53%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Wanderlei Silva

0.97takedowns / 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.

Chuck Liddell→ no move
open 41.7%close 41.2%
Wanderlei Silva→ no move
open 58.3%close 58.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Chuck Liddell opened at 41.7% and closed at 41.2% once the vig is taken out — a 0.5pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Chuck Liddell12513541.7%41.2%−0.5pp
Wanderlei Silva-165-15558.3%58.8%+0.5pp
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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