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History · 2011 · UFC 125: Resolution · Brandon Vera vs Thiago Silva
From the tape · 1 Jan 2011

Brandon Vera vs Thiago Silva

UFC 125: Resolution · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

No winner recorded The official record carries no winner for this bout — a draw, a no-contest or an overturned result.

Method
Overturned
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Steve Mazzagatti

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.

BV
Red corner BrandonVera“The Truth”Alliance MMA · San Diego, California
VSOn the tape
TS
Blue corner ThiagoSilvaKill Cliff FC · Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo
Light Heavyweight3 rounds1 Jan 2011
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Every one of Silva’s 5 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Carries 15 points more striking defence than Vera.
15-7
Record
19-6
33
Age
−5 yr28
+1″6' 3"
Height
6' 2"
+4″78″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+512
UFC bouts
7
5/771% of wins
Finishes
+29%5/5100% of wins
Alliance MMA
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
San Diego, California
From
Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo
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 action1 sub attempt
Brandon Vera9 sig landed
HEAD11%1 of 4BODY56%5 of 7LEGS33%3 of 5
Thiago Silva18 sig landed
HEAD72%13 of 27BODY28%5 of 6LEGS0%0 of 1
9 of 16
Sig.
strikes
18 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:10
Control
4:18
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 3Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 4Ground 13
Round 25:00 of action
Brandon Vera7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 12BODY14%1 of 2LEGS43%3 of 3
Thiago Silva14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 28BODY36%5 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 17
Sig.
strikes
14 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:14
Control
4:18
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Brandon Vera3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 6BODY33%1 of 3LEGS33%1 of 2
Thiago Silva19 sig landed
HEAD74%14 of 27BODY11%2 of 2LEGS16%3 of 3
3 of 11
Sig.
strikes
19 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
4:19
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 15

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

Draw/NC

Round
3
Clock
5:00
Method
Overturned

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: Steve Mazzagatti.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Brandon Vera

0.70takedowns / 15 min
0.70 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.03 / 15m
1.32 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.19 / 15m
53%
ACCURACY
47%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Thiago Silva

1.03takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

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.

Brandon Vera↑ +1.4pp
open 42.2%close 43.6%
Thiago Silva↓ −1.4pp
open 57.8%close 56.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Brandon Vera opened at 42.2% and closed at 43.6% (+1.4pp), with Thiago Silva 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
Brandon Vera12512542.2%43.6%+1.4pp
Thiago Silva-155-13557.8%56.4%−1.4pp
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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