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History · 2009 · UFC 97: Redemption · Anderson Silva vs Thales Leites
From the tape · 18 Apr 2009

Anderson Silva vs Thales Leites

UFC 97: Redemption · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Result

Anderson Silva beat Thales Leites

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Middleweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · 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.

AS
Red corner AndersonSilva“The Spider”Curitiba, Parana
VSOn the tape
TL
Blue corner ThalesLeitesNova Uniao · Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro
Middleweight Title5 rounds18 Apr 2009
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 8-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Silva’s 8 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
34-11
Record
28-9
34
Age
−7 yr27
+1″6' 2"
Height
6' 1"
77″
Reach
+1″78″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+28
UFC bouts
6
+40%8/8100% of wins
Finishes
3/560% of wins
Curitiba, Parana
From
Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Anderson Silva8 sig landed
HEAD25%2 of 9BODY25%2 of 3LEGS50%4 of 4
Thales Leites1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 1
8 of 16
Sig.
strikes
1 of 8
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:11
Control
0:31
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Silva firstBenoit Roussel9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Anderson Silva8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 10BODY0%0 of 1LEGS38%3 of 3
Thales Leites1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 1
8 of 14
Sig.
strikes
1 of 8
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:06
Control
2:07
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Silva firstBenoit Roussel10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Anderson Silva28 sig landed
HEAD32%9 of 21BODY7%2 of 2LEGS61%17 of 20
Thales Leites4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 8BODY0%0 of 1LEGS75%3 of 4
28 of 43
Sig.
strikes
4 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
1:07
Control
0:00
Distance 18Clinch 3Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Silva firstBenoit Roussel10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Anderson Silva28 sig landed
HEAD25%7 of 12BODY7%2 of 3LEGS68%19 of 21
Thales Leites3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 10BODY0%0 of 1LEGS33%1 of 1
28 of 36
Sig.
strikes
3 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:18
Control
0:00
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Silva firstBenoit Roussel10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Anderson Silva22 sig landed
HEAD55%12 of 19BODY9%2 of 2LEGS36%8 of 9
Thales Leites1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 10BODY100%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
22 of 30
Sig.
strikes
1 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 5
1:02
Control
0:00
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Silva firstBenoit Roussel10–9

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 · Yves Lavigne
Anderson SilvaThales Leites
Official totals — Anderson Silva first
JudgeTotal
Benoit Roussel49–46

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, Anderson Silva first · unofficial

Fight Metric.com50–45
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com50–46
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com49–45
MM AJunkie.com49–46
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com49–46
MM AWeekly.com49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Silva · 44%49-46 Silva · 28%50-46 Silva · 9%50-44 Silva · 7%48-47 Leites · 5%

43 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.

Anderson Silva

0.50takedowns / 15 min
0.50 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.10 / 15m
0.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.78 / 15m
77%
ACCURACY
27%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Thales Leites

2.10takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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↑ +5.2pp
open 77.9%close 83.0%
Thales Leites↓ −5.2pp
open 22.1%close 17.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Anderson Silva opened at 77.9% and closed at 83.0% (+5.2pp), with Thales Leites 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-450-57577.9%83.0%+5.2pp
Thales Leites33047522.1%17.0%−5.2pp
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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