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History · 2008 · UFC 90: Silva vs Cote · Thiago Alves vs Josh Koscheck
From the tape · 25 Oct 2008

Thiago Alves vs Josh Koscheck

UFC 90: Silva vs Cote · Rosemont, Illinois, USA
Result

Thiago Alves beat Josh Koscheck

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightCo-MainReferee · David Smith

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.

TA
Red corner ThiagoAlves“Pitbull”American Top Team · Fortaleza, Ceara
VSOn the tape
JK
Blue corner JoshKoscheckDethrone Base Camp · Buffalo, New York
Welterweight3 rounds25 Oct 2008
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 7 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
23-15
Record
17-11
−5 yr25
Age
30
5' 9"
Height
+1″5' 10"
70″
Reach
+3″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
10
UFC bouts
+111
+32%7/888% of wins
Finishes
5/956% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Dethrone Base Camp
Fortaleza, Ceara
From
Buffalo, New York
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 — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Alves
Thiago Alves22 sig landed
HEAD45%10 of 37BODY0%0 of 1LEGS55%12 of 14
Josh Koscheck12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 40BODY33%4 of 7LEGS8%1 of 1
22 of 52
Sig.
strikes
12 of 48
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:03
Control
0:31
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Alves firstKelvin Caldwell10–9Clay Goodman10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Thiago Alves18 sig landed
HEAD50%9 of 34BODY11%2 of 3LEGS39%7 of 10
Josh Koscheck13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 27BODY31%4 of 6LEGS15%2 of 2
18 of 47
Sig.
strikes
13 of 35
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:01
Control
1:40
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Alves firstKelvin Caldwell10–9Clay Goodman10–9
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD AlvesEnded 5:00
Thiago Alves40 sig landed
HEAD60%24 of 63BODY0%0 landedLEGS40%16 of 19
Josh Koscheck14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 39BODY7%1 of 4LEGS14%2 of 2
40 of 82
Sig.
strikes
14 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:13
Control
0:28
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 32Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Alves firstKelvin Caldwell10–9Clay Goodman10–9

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.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · David Smith
Thiago AlvesJosh Koscheck
Official totals — Thiago Alves first
JudgeTotal
Kelvin Caldwell30–27
Clay Goodman30–27

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 6 scored, Thiago Alves first · unofficial

Fight Metric.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Lotfi Sariahmed Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Alves · 86%29-28 Alves · 14%

7 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.

Thiago Alves

0.71takedowns / 15 min
0.71 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.46 / 15m
1.18 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.12 / 15m
60%
ACCURACY
48%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Josh Koscheck

2.46takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Thiago Alves↓ −12.1pp
open 62.1%close 50.0%
Josh Koscheck↑ +12.1pp
open 37.9%close 50.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Thiago Alves opened at 62.1% and closed at 50.0% (−12.1pp), with Josh Koscheck 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
Thiago Alves-190-11062.1%50.0%−12.1pp
Josh Koscheck150-11037.9%50.0%+12.1pp
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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