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History · 2010 · UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen · Matt Hughes vs Ricardo Almeida
From the tape · 7 Aug 2010

Matt Hughes vs Ricardo Almeida

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

Matt Hughes beat Ricardo Almeida

Method
Submission
Round
1 of 3
Clock
3:15
WelterweightMain 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.

MH
Red corner MattHughesHIT Squad · Hillsboro, Illinois
VSOn the tape
RA
Blue corner RicardoAlmeida“Big Dog”Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu · Bordentown, New Jersey
Welterweight3 rounds7 Aug 2010
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 12 of 17 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
45-9
Record
13-5
36
Age
−3 yr33
5' 9"
Height
+3″6' 0"
73″
Reach
+1″74″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
+1422
UFC bouts
8
+11%12/1771% of wins
Finishes
3/560% of wins
HIT Squad
Gym
Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Hillsboro, Illinois
From
Bordentown, New Jersey
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

1 round of tape

Round 13:15 of action⚡ 1 KD Hughes1 sub attemptEnded 3:15
Matt Hughes2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 14BODY0%0 of 1LEGS50%1 of 1
Ricardo Almeida10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 20BODY20%2 of 5LEGS30%3 of 3
2 of 16
Sig.
strikes
10 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:13
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Matt Hughes

Round
1
Clock
3:15
Method
Submission

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Josh Rosenthal.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Matt Hughes

2.95takedowns / 15 min
2.95 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.74 / 15m
5.90 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.84 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
38%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Ricardo Almeida

3.74takedowns / 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.

Matt Hughes↓ −27.4pp
open 62.8%close 35.3%
Ricardo Almeida↑ +27.4pp
open 37.2%close 64.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Matt Hughes opened at 62.8% and closed at 35.3% (−27.4pp), with Ricardo Almeida 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
Matt Hughes-19517862.8%35.3%−27.4pp
Ricardo Almeida155-19337.2%64.7%+27.4pp
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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