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History · 2012 · UFC 153: Silva vs Bonnar · Cristiano Marcello vs Reza Madadi
From the tape · 13 Oct 2012

Cristiano Marcello vs Reza Madadi

UFC 153: Silva vs Bonnar · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Result

Cristiano Marcello beat Reza Madadi

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Fernando Yamasaki

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.

CM
Red corner CristianoMarcelloCM System · Curitiba, Parana
VSOn the tape
RM
Blue corner RezaMadadi“Mad Dog”Allstars Training Center · Tehran
Lightweight3 rounds13 Oct 2012
13-6
Record
14-6
34
Age
34
5' 9"
Height
+2″5' 11"
72″
Reach
+1″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
1
CM System
Gym
Allstars Training Center
Curitiba, Parana
From
Tehran
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
Cristiano Marcello13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 52BODY38%5 of 9LEGS23%3 of 6
Reza Madadi13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 31BODY15%2 of 3LEGS8%1 of 1
13 of 67
Sig.
strikes
13 of 35
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:57
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Marcello firstRomulo Bittencourt10–9Aaron Chatfield10–9Cardo Urso9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Cristiano Marcello27 sig landed
HEAD81%22 of 70BODY11%3 of 6LEGS7%2 of 3
Reza Madadi35 sig landed
HEAD100%35 of 63BODY0%0 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
27 of 79
Sig.
strikes
35 of 65
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:51
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 10Ground 0
Judges · this round · Marcello firstRomulo Bittencourt9–10Aaron Chatfield10–9Cardo Urso9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Cristiano Marcello32 sig landed
HEAD78%25 of 83BODY12%4 of 9LEGS9%3 of 3
Reza Madadi29 sig landed
HEAD86%25 of 46BODY10%3 of 3LEGS3%1 of 2
32 of 95
Sig.
strikes
29 of 51
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:21
Distance 30Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Marcello firstRomulo Bittencourt10–9Aaron Chatfield10–9Cardo Urso10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Fernando Yamasaki
Cristiano MarcelloReza Madadi
Official totals — Cristiano Marcello first
JudgeTotal
Romulo Bittencourt29–28
Aaron Chatfield30–27
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29

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 — 8 scored, Cristiano Marcello first · unofficial

Mike Whitman Sherdog.com29–29
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com28–29
MM AWeekly.com28–29
Adam Martin TheScore.com28–29
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Madadi · 80%30-27 Madadi · 10%30-27 Marcello · 3%30-26 Madadi · 3%30-28 Madadi · 3%

39 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.

Cristiano Marcello

0.44takedowns / 15 min
0.44 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.17 / 15m
4.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.61 / 15m
11%
ACCURACY
33%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Reza Madadi

3.17takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Cristiano Marcello↑ +6.8pp
open 34.7%close 41.5%
Reza Madadi↓ −6.8pp
open 65.3%close 58.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Cristiano Marcello opened at 34.7% and closed at 41.5% (+6.8pp), with Reza Madadi 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
Cristiano Marcello17013534.7%41.5%+6.8pp
Reza Madadi-230-15065.3%58.5%−6.8pp
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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