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History · 2012 · UFC 153: Silva vs Bonnar · Jon Fitch vs Erick Silva
From the tape · 13 Oct 2012

Jon Fitch vs Erick Silva

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

Jon Fitch beat Erick Silva

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

JF
Red corner JonFitchAmerican Kickboxing Academy · Fort Wayne, Indiana
VSOn the tape
ES
Blue corner ErickSilvaTeam Nogueira · Vila Velha, Espirito Santo
Welterweight3 rounds13 Oct 2012
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 13 UFC wins.
  • 16 UFC bouts deep — 13 more than Silva.
30-7-1
Record
19-9
34
Age
−6 yr28
6' 0"
Height
6' 0"
74″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1316
UFC bouts
3
4/1331% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
American Kickboxing Academy
Gym
Team Nogueira
Fort Wayne, Indiana
From
Vila Velha, Espirito Santo
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 action1 sub attempt
Jon Fitch13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 12BODY46%6 of 8LEGS15%2 of 2
Erick Silva8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 8BODY38%3 of 5LEGS25%2 of 2
13 of 22
Sig.
strikes
8 of 15
4 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:46
Control
0:27
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 10Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Fitch firstAaron Chatfield10–9Mark Collett10–9Howard Hughes10–9
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Jon Fitch11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 17BODY27%3 of 4LEGS9%1 of 3
Erick Silva11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 15BODY9%1 of 2LEGS9%1 of 1
11 of 24
Sig.
strikes
11 of 18
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 3
1:27
Control
2:24
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 2Clinch 5Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 8
Judges · this round · Fitch firstAaron Chatfield9–10Mark Collett9–10Howard Hughes10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Jon Fitch58 sig landed
HEAD98%57 of 83BODY2%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Erick Silva0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed

58 of 85
Sig.
strikes
0 of 0
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:37
Control
0:07
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 56
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Fitch firstAaron Chatfield10–9Mark Collett10–9Howard Hughes10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Jon FitchErick Silva
Official totals — Jon Fitch first
JudgeTotal
Aaron Chatfield29–28
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% 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 — 9 scored, Jon Fitch first · unofficial

MM AWeekly.com30–26
Matthew Roth BleacherReport.com29–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–27
Adam Martin TheScore.com29–27
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com29–28
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-27 Fitch · 57%29-28 Fitch · 12%30-27 Fitch · 12%30-26 Fitch · 8%30-28 Fitch · 4%

49 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.

Jon Fitch

3.60takedowns / 15 min
3.60 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.85 / 15m
7.06 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.43 / 15m
51%
ACCURACY
35%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.40 / 15m

Erick Silva

0.85takedowns / 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.

Jon Fitch↓ −12.4pp
open 48.1%close 35.7%
Erick Silva↑ +12.4pp
open 51.9%close 64.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jon Fitch opened at 48.1% and closed at 35.7% (−12.4pp), with Erick 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
Jon Fitch-11017348.1%35.7%−12.4pp
Erick Silva-130-19351.9%64.3%+12.4pp
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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