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Events · UFC 134: Silva vs Okami · Rousimar Palhares vs Dan Miller
From the tape · 27 Aug 2011

Rousimar Palhares vs Dan Miller

UFC 134: Silva vs Okami · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Result

Rousimar Palhares beat Dan Miller

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

RP
Red corner RousimarPalhares“Toquinho”Team Nogueira · Dores do Indaia, Minas Gerais
VSOn the tape
DM
Blue corner DanMillerSussex County MMA · Sparta, New Jersey
Middleweight3 rounds27 Aug 2011
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Averages 2.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Miller.
  • Carries 47 points more takedown defence than Palhares.
19-8
Record
14-8
31
Age
−1 yr30
5' 8"
Height
+5″6' 1"
71″
Reach
+3″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
7
UFC bouts
+29
+20%4/580% of wins
Finishes
3/560% of wins
Team Nogueira
Gym
Sussex County MMA
Dores do Indaia, Minas Gerais
From
Sparta, 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 — 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⚡ 1 KD Palhares⚡ 1 KD Miller
Rousimar Palhares22 sig landed
HEAD64%14 of 20BODY0%0 landedLEGS36%8 of 8
Dan Miller9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 23BODY11%1 of 1LEGS11%1 of 1
22 of 28
Sig.
strikes
9 of 25
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:43
Control
0:38
1
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Palhares firstChris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Rousimar Palhares16 sig landed
HEAD88%14 of 23BODY12%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Dan Miller3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
16 of 25
Sig.
strikes
3 of 7
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:38
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 2Clinch 3Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Palhares firstChris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rousimar Palhares29 sig landed
HEAD59%17 of 45BODY17%5 of 6LEGS24%7 of 7
Dan Miller30 sig landed
HEAD90%27 of 62BODY7%2 of 2LEGS3%1 of 1
29 of 58
Sig.
strikes
30 of 65
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Palhares firstChris Lee10–9

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
Rousimar PalharesDan Miller
Official totals — Rousimar Palhares first
JudgeTotal
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27

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, Rousimar Palhares first · unofficial

Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–26
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–26
Freddie DeFreitas Sherdog.com30–26
MM AJunkie.com29–27
MM AWeekly.com29–27
Ben Fowlkes MMAFighting.com29–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Palhares · 43%30-25 Palhares · 29%29-28 Palhares · 14%30-27 Palhares · 14%

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.

Rousimar Palhares

3.93takedowns / 15 min
3.93 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.67 / 15m
8.73 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.09 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
54%
4.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.80 / 15m

Dan Miller

1.67takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Rousimar Palhares↑ +1.9pp
open 67.9%close 69.8%
Dan Miller↓ −1.9pp
open 32.1%close 30.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rousimar Palhares opened at 67.9% and closed at 69.8% (+1.9pp), with Dan Miller 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
Rousimar Palhares-270-24567.9%69.8%+1.9pp
Dan Miller19022532.1%30.2%−1.9pp
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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