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History · 2013 · UFC on FX: Belfort vs Bisping · Vitor Belfort vs Michael Bisping
From the tape · 19 Jan 2013

Vitor Belfort vs Michael Bisping

UFC on FX: Belfort vs Bisping · Sao Paulo, Brazil
Result

Vitor Belfort beat Michael Bisping

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 5
Clock
1:27
MiddleweightMainReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

VB
Red corner VitorBelfort“The Phenom”Kill Cliff FC · Rio de Janeiro
VSOn the tape
MB
Blue corner MichaelBisping“The Count”HB Ultimate · Manchester
Middleweight5 rounds19 Jan 2013
The story going in
  • Every one of Belfort’s 10 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has finished 8 of 13 UFC wins.
  • Is 8 points more accurate striking than Bisping.
  • Lands 2.7 more significant strikes a minute than Belfort.
26-14
Record
30-9
35
Age
−2 yr33
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
74″
Reach
+1″75″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
16
UFC bouts
+117
+38%10/10100% of wins
Finishes
8/1362% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
HB Ultimate
Rio de Janeiro
From
Manchester
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Vitor Belfort9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 31BODY44%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Michael Bisping10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 47BODY0%0 of 2LEGS30%3 of 3
9 of 36
Sig.
strikes
10 of 52
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 21:27 of action⚡ 1 KD BelfortEnded 1:27
Vitor Belfort9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 15BODY22%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Michael Bisping4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 10BODY0%0 landedLEGS75%3 of 4
9 of 17
Sig.
strikes
4 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:06
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0

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

Vitor Belfort

Round
2
Clock
1:27
Method
KO/TKO

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: Dan Miragliotta.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Vitor Belfort

1.02takedowns / 15 min
1.02 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.05 / 15m
1.70 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.44 / 15m
60%
ACCURACY
43%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Michael Bisping

1.05takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Vitor Belfort↓ −5.8pp
open 57.5%close 51.7%
Michael Bisping↑ +5.8pp
open 42.5%close 48.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Vitor Belfort opened at 57.5% and closed at 51.7% (−5.8pp), with Michael Bisping 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
Vitor Belfort-160-11557.5%51.7%−5.8pp
Michael Bisping12010042.5%48.3%+5.8pp
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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