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Events · The Ultimate Fighter: Team Jones vs. Team Sonnen Finale · Sam Sicilia vs Maximo Blanco
From the tape · 13 Apr 2013

Sam Sicilia vs Maximo Blanco

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Jones vs. Team Sonnen Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Maximo Blanco beat Sam Sicilia

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Kim Winslow

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.

SS
Red corner SamSiciliaSikjitsu · Spokane, Washington
VSOn the tape
MB
Blue corner MaximoBlanco“Maxi”Yoshida Dojo · Caracas
Featherweight3 rounds13 Apr 2013
15-8
Record
12-8-1
−2 yr27
Age
29
5' 8"
Height
5' 8"
67″
Reach
+4″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+12
UFC bouts
1
Sikjitsu
Gym
Yoshida Dojo
Spokane, Washington
From
Caracas
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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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Sam Sicilia6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 27BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%3 of 4
Maximo Blanco12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 32BODY8%1 of 9LEGS33%4 of 9
6 of 31
Sig.
strikes
12 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:44
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Sam Sicilia13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 33BODY8%1 of 2LEGS15%2 of 2
Maximo Blanco18 sig landed
HEAD72%13 of 35BODY11%2 of 5LEGS17%3 of 4
13 of 37
Sig.
strikes
18 of 44
1 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:33
Control
1:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 6Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Sam Sicilia7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 30BODY14%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Maximo Blanco22 sig landed
HEAD86%19 of 46BODY0%0 of 2LEGS14%3 of 3
7 of 31
Sig.
strikes
22 of 51
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:39
Control
2:03
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 9Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · Kim Winslow
Official totals — Sam Sicilia first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Mark Smith2.1 avg spread · 49% wide28–29
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide28–29

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

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.

Sam Sicilia

1.45takedowns / 15 min
1.45 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.85 / 15m
3.37 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.14 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
36%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Maximo Blanco

1.85takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Sam Sicilia↑ +2.5pp
open 32.6%close 35.1%
Maximo Blanco↓ −2.5pp
open 67.4%close 64.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Sam Sicilia opened at 32.6% and closed at 35.1% (+2.5pp), with Maximo Blanco 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
Sam Sicilia18517732.6%35.1%+2.5pp
Maximo Blanco-265-20067.4%64.9%−2.5pp
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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