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History · 2010 · UFC Fight Night: Maynard vs Diaz · Chris Leben vs Jay Silva
From the tape · 11 Jan 2010

Chris Leben vs Jay Silva

UFC Fight Night: Maynard vs Diaz · Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Result

Chris Leben beat Jay Silva

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

CL
Red corner ChrisLeben“The Crippler”Alliance MMA · Portland, Oregon
VSOn the tape
JS
Blue corner JaySilvaMPF Training Systems · Huntington Beach, California
Middleweight3 rounds11 Jan 2010
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 6 of 8 UFC wins.
22-11
Record
10-11-1
29
Age
−1 yr28
5' 11"
Height
+3″6' 2"
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+1213
UFC bouts
1
Alliance MMA
Gym
MPF Training Systems
Portland, Oregon
From
Huntington Beach, California
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 action2 sub attempts
Chris Leben16 sig landed
HEAD100%16 of 24BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Jay Silva3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
16 of 24
Sig.
strikes
3 of 8
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:25
Control
0:00
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 15
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
Chris Leben29 sig landed
HEAD83%24 of 42BODY3%1 of 1LEGS14%4 of 5
Jay Silva4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 15BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
29 of 48
Sig.
strikes
4 of 15
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:41
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 24
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 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
Chris Leben15 sig landed
HEAD53%8 of 18BODY27%4 of 4LEGS20%3 of 5
Jay Silva8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 28BODY25%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 27
Sig.
strikes
8 of 31
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:30
Control
0:47
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 5Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 3Ground 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 · Dan Miragliotta
Official totals — Chris Leben first
JudgeTotal
Jeff Blatnick2.0 avg spread · 40% wide30–27
Doug Crosby2.3 avg spread · 51% wide30–27
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% 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.

Chris Leben

1.14takedowns / 15 min
1.14 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
2.78 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
41%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Jay Silva

0.00takedowns / 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.

Chris Leben→ no move
open 58.6%close 58.6%
Jay Silva→ no move
open 41.4%close 41.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Chris Leben opened at 58.6% and closed at 58.6% once the vig is taken out — a 0.0pp 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
Chris Leben-160-16058.6%58.6%−0.0pp
Jay Silva13013041.4%41.4%−0.0pp
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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