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History · 2008 · UFC: Silva vs Irvin · Frankie Edgar vs Hermes Franca
From the tape · 19 Jul 2008

Frankie Edgar vs Hermes Franca

UFC: Silva vs Irvin · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Frankie Edgar beat Hermes Franca

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

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.

FE
Red corner FrankieEdgar“The Answer”Ricardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu · Toms River, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
HF
Blue corner HermesFrancaVictory MMA · Fortaleza, Ceara
Lightweight3 rounds19 Jul 2008
The story going in
  • Carries 28 points more takedown defence than Franca.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • 8 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Edgar.
23-11-1
Record
24-17
−7 yr26
Age
33
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
68″
Reach
+3″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+48
1/333% of wins
Finishes
+47%4/580% of wins
Ricardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu
Gym
Victory MMA
Toms River, New Jersey
From
Fortaleza, Ceara
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 action1 sub attempt
Frankie Edgar19 sig landed
HEAD84%16 of 33BODY5%1 of 1LEGS11%2 of 2
Hermes Franca5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 7BODY40%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 36
Sig.
strikes
5 of 9
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:24
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 18
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 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
Frankie Edgar25 sig landed
HEAD80%20 of 40BODY4%1 of 1LEGS16%4 of 4
Hermes Franca3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 8BODY0%0 of 1LEGS67%2 of 3
25 of 45
Sig.
strikes
3 of 12
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:06
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 21
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 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
Frankie Edgar25 sig landed
HEAD60%15 of 21BODY36%9 of 9LEGS4%1 of 1
Hermes Franca10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 16BODY0%0 landedLEGS10%1 of 1
25 of 31
Sig.
strikes
10 of 17
6 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:39
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 4Ground 15
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 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 · Yves Lavigne
Official totals — Frankie Edgar first
JudgeTotal
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide30–27
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Patricia Morse-Jarman2.0 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.

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.

Frankie Edgar

2.29takedowns / 15 min
2.29 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.53 / 15m
7.39 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.25 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
36%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.40 / 15m

Hermes Franca

1.53takedowns / 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.

Frankie Edgar→ no move
open 58.6%close 59.0%
Hermes Franca→ no move
open 41.4%close 41.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Frankie Edgar opened at 58.6% and closed at 59.0% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp 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
Frankie Edgar-160-15058.6%59.0%+0.4pp
Hermes Franca13014041.4%41.0%−0.4pp
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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