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History · 2010 · UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen · Jon Fitch vs Thiago Alves
From the tape · 7 Aug 2010

Jon Fitch vs Thiago Alves

UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen · Oakland, California, USA
Result

Jon Fitch beat Thiago Alves

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightCo-MainReferee · Herb Dean

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.

JF
Red corner JonFitchAmerican Kickboxing Academy · Fort Wayne, Indiana
VSOn the tape
TA
Blue corner ThiagoAlves“Pitbull”American Top Team · Fortaleza, Ceara
Welterweight3 rounds7 Aug 2010
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 7 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Lands 1.1 more significant strikes a minute than Fitch.
30-7-1
Record
23-15
32
Age
−6 yr26
+3″6' 0"
Height
5' 9"
+4″74″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+113
UFC bouts
12
4/1233% of wins
Finishes
+44%7/978% of wins
American Kickboxing Academy
Gym
American Top Team
Fort Wayne, Indiana
From
Fortaleza, Ceara
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
Jon Fitch11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 20BODY27%3 of 6LEGS27%3 of 3
Thiago Alves7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 25BODY14%1 of 2LEGS43%3 of 3
11 of 29
Sig.
strikes
7 of 30
4 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:58
Control
0:58
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Fitch firstNelson Hamilton10–9Dan Stell10–9Susan Thomas-Gitlin10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jon Fitch10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 12BODY30%3 of 3LEGS20%2 of 2
Thiago Alves2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 9BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 of 2
10 of 17
Sig.
strikes
2 of 12
4 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:41
Control
0:19
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Fitch firstNelson Hamilton10–9Dan Stell10–9Susan Thomas-Gitlin10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jon Fitch8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 16BODY25%2 of 3LEGS12%1 of 1
Thiago Alves13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 34BODY8%1 of 1LEGS31%4 of 4
8 of 20
Sig.
strikes
13 of 39
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:27
Control
0:45
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Fitch firstNelson Hamilton10–9Dan Stell10–9Susan Thomas-Gitlin10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Jon FitchThiago Alves
Official totals — Jon Fitch first
JudgeTotal
Nelson Hamilton2.2 avg spread · 51% wide30–27
Dan Stell30–27
Susan Thomas-Gitlin30–27

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, Jon Fitch first · unofficial

MM AWeekly.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com30–27
Fight Metric.com30–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Fitch · 100%

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.

Jon Fitch

3.60takedowns / 15 min
3.60 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.71 / 15m
7.06 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.18 / 15m
51%
ACCURACY
60%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Thiago Alves

0.71takedowns / 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.

Jon Fitch→ no move
open 44.9%close 45.4%
Thiago Alves→ no move
open 55.1%close 54.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Jon Fitch opened at 44.9% and closed at 45.4% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp 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
Jon Fitch11011644.9%45.4%+0.4pp
Thiago Alves-140-12655.1%54.6%−0.4pp
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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