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Events · UFC 89: Bisping vs Leben · Per Eklund vs Samy Schiavo
From the tape · 18 Oct 2008

Per Eklund vs Samy Schiavo

UFC 89: Bisping vs Leben · Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Result

Per Eklund beat Samy Schiavo

Method
Submission
Round
3 of 3
Clock
1:47
LightweightMain cardReferee · Leon Roberts

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.

PE
Red corner PerEklundOrla · Stockholm
VSOn the tape
SS
Blue corner SamySchiavoBushido Academie · Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Lightweight3 rounds18 Oct 2008
The story going in
  • Carries 29 points more striking defence than Schiavo.
  • Carries 16 points more takedown defence than Eklund.
14-5-1
Record
10-6
−5 yr27
Age
32
+2″5' 10"
Height
5' 8"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
1
Orla
Gym
Bushido Academie
Stockholm
From
Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
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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 action1 sub attempt
Per Eklund8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 7BODY50%4 of 6LEGS12%1 of 1
Samy Schiavo11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 23BODY0%0 of 2LEGS36%4 of 4
8 of 14
Sig.
strikes
11 of 29
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:10
Control
3:40
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 6Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 4
Round 25:00 of action3 sub attempts
Per Eklund17 sig landed
HEAD29%5 of 8BODY59%10 of 11LEGS12%2 of 2
Samy Schiavo12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 20BODY8%1 of 1LEGS17%2 of 2
17 of 21
Sig.
strikes
12 of 23
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:23
Control
1:39
3
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 13Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 4Ground 3
Round 31:47 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 1:47
Per Eklund6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Samy Schiavo0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 4 thrown

6 of 7
Sig.
strikes
0 of 4
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:30
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 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

Per Eklund

Round
3
Clock
1:47
Method
Submission

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: Leon Roberts.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Per Eklund

2.07takedowns / 15 min
2.07 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.94 / 15m
18.82 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.88 / 15m
11%
ACCURACY
50%
3.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Samy Schiavo

0.94takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Per Eklund↑ +2.0pp
open 63.5%close 65.5%
Samy Schiavo↓ −2.0pp
open 36.5%close 34.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Per Eklund opened at 63.5% and closed at 65.5% (+2.0pp), with Samy Schiavo 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
Per Eklund-190-21563.5%65.5%+2.0pp
Samy Schiavo16517836.5%34.5%−2.0pp
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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