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Events · UFC on FUEL TV: Gustafsson vs Silva · Alexander Gustafsson vs Thiago Silva
From the tape · 14 Apr 2012

Alexander Gustafsson vs Thiago Silva

UFC on FUEL TV: Gustafsson vs Silva · Stockholm, Sweden
Result

Alexander Gustafsson beat Thiago Silva

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMainReferee · Leon Roberts

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.

AG
Red corner AlexanderGustafsson“The Mauler”Stockholm, Stockholm County
VSOn the tape
TS
Blue corner ThiagoSilvaKill Cliff FC · Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo
Light Heavyweight3 rounds14 Apr 2012
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Silva’s 5 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Every one of Gustafsson’s 5 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Carries 16 points more striking defence than Gustafsson.
18-8
Record
19-6
−4 yr25
Age
29
+3″6' 5"
Height
6' 2"
+5″79″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
6
UFC bouts
+28
5/5100% of wins
Finishes
5/5100% of wins
Stockholm, Stockholm County
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 — 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 Gustafsson
Alexander Gustafsson20 sig landed
HEAD60%12 of 89BODY5%1 of 4LEGS35%7 of 7
Thiago Silva10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 23BODY10%1 of 3LEGS40%4 of 6
20 of 100
Sig.
strikes
10 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:13
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gustafsson firstHoward Hughes10–9Chris Watts10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Alexander Gustafsson27 sig landed
HEAD63%17 of 76BODY15%4 of 5LEGS22%6 of 7
Thiago Silva8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 29BODY12%1 of 4LEGS38%3 of 5
27 of 88
Sig.
strikes
8 of 38
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:27
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 25Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gustafsson firstHoward Hughes10–9Chris Watts10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Alexander Gustafsson29 sig landed
HEAD72%21 of 84BODY7%2 of 4LEGS21%6 of 7
Thiago Silva20 sig landed
HEAD60%12 of 28BODY10%2 of 3LEGS30%6 of 7
29 of 95
Sig.
strikes
20 of 38
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 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gustafsson firstHoward Hughes10–9Chris Watts10–9

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 · Leon Roberts
Alexander GustafssonThiago Silva
Official totals — Alexander Gustafsson first
JudgeTotal
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Chris Watts1.9 avg spread · 46% 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 — 7 scored, Alexander Gustafsson first · unofficial

Ben Fowlkes MMAFighting.com30–26
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Fight Metric.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Gustafsson · 75%30-26 Gustafsson · 17%29-28 Gustafsson · 8%

12 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.

Alexander Gustafsson

1.53takedowns / 15 min
1.53 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.03 / 15m
3.92 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.19 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
47%
0.40 / 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.

Alexander Gustafsson↑ +7.3pp
open 63.8%close 71.1%
Thiago Silva↓ −7.3pp
open 36.2%close 28.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Alexander Gustafsson opened at 63.8% and closed at 71.1% (+7.3pp), 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
Alexander Gustafsson-210-26063.8%71.1%+7.3pp
Thiago Silva16024036.2%28.9%−7.3pp
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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