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History · 2009 · The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom Finale · Melvin Guillard vs Gleison Tibau
From the tape · 20 Jun 2009

Melvin Guillard vs Gleison Tibau

The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Melvin Guillard beat Gleison Tibau

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Josh Rosenthal

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.

MG
Red corner MelvinGuillard“The Young Assassin”Genesis Training Cente · New Orleans, Louisiana
VSOn the tape
GT
Blue corner GleisonTibauAmerican Top Team · Mossoro, Rio Grande do Norte
Lightweight3 rounds20 Jun 2009
The story going in
  • Every one of Guillard’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Is 9 points more accurate striking than Tibau.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
32-18-2
Record
33-14
26
Age
−1 yr25
5' 9"
Height
+1″5' 10"
71″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
7
UFC bouts
+18
+60%4/4100% of wins
Finishes
2/540% of wins
Genesis Training Cente
Gym
American Top Team
New Orleans, Louisiana
From
Mossoro, Rio Grande do Norte
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
Melvin Guillard5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 19BODY20%1 of 2LEGS60%3 of 3
Gleison Tibau3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 11BODY67%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 24
Sig.
strikes
3 of 15
0 of 1
Take-
downs
3 of 4
0:09
Control
1:48
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 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
Melvin Guillard6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 12BODY33%2 of 3LEGS33%2 of 2
Gleison Tibau5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 16BODY20%1 of 2LEGS60%3 of 3
6 of 17
Sig.
strikes
5 of 21
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 6
0:01
Control
2:15
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 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
Melvin Guillard2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 8BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Gleison Tibau6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 14BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
2 of 9
Sig.
strikes
6 of 14
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:00
Control
4:28
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 4
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 - Split

Referee · Josh Rosenthal
Official totals — Melvin Guillard first
JudgeTotal
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Nelson Hamilton2.2 avg spread · 51% wide28–29

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.

Melvin Guillard

1.30takedowns / 15 min
1.30 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.08 / 15m
2.06 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.70 / 15m
63%
ACCURACY
53%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Gleison Tibau

4.08takedowns / 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.

Melvin Guillard↓ −2.2pp
open 31.6%close 29.3%
Gleison Tibau↑ +2.2pp
open 68.4%close 70.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Melvin Guillard opened at 31.6% and closed at 29.3% (−2.2pp), with Gleison Tibau 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
Melvin Guillard20023031.6%29.3%−2.2pp
Gleison Tibau-260-27068.4%70.7%+2.2pp
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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