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Events · UFC 159: Jones vs Sonnen · Steven Siler vs Kurt Holobaugh
From the tape · 27 Apr 2013

Steven Siler vs Kurt Holobaugh

UFC 159: Jones vs Sonnen · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Result

Steven Siler beat Kurt Holobaugh

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Gasper Oliver

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 StevenSiler“Super”
VSOn the tape
KH
Blue corner KurtHolobaugh“The Hurt”Gracie United · Denham Springs, Louisiana
Featherweight3 rounds27 Apr 2013
The story going in
  • Carries 17 points more takedown defence than Holobaugh.
  • Lands 1.4 more significant strikes a minute than Siler.
29-16
Record
22-10
26
Age
26
5' 11"
Height
5' 11"
70″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Steven Siler15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 24BODY47%7 of 9LEGS7%1 of 1
Kurt Holobaugh9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 16BODY33%3 of 5LEGS44%4 of 4
15 of 34
Sig.
strikes
9 of 25
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:16
Control
0:45
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 7Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 5Ground 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 action2 sub attempts
Steven Siler10 sig landed
HEAD100%10 of 27BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Kurt Holobaugh13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 27BODY31%4 of 4LEGS8%1 of 2
10 of 27
Sig.
strikes
13 of 33
0 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:38
Control
3:14
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 10
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
Steven Siler25 sig landed
HEAD76%19 of 41BODY24%6 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Kurt Holobaugh19 sig landed
HEAD16%3 of 15BODY58%11 of 11LEGS26%5 of 8
25 of 48
Sig.
strikes
19 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:53
Control
1:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 5Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 11Ground 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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Gasper Oliver
Official totals — Steven Siler first
JudgeTotal
Sue Sanidad29–28
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide29–28
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28

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.

Media cards — 10 scored, Steven Siler first · unofficial

Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–27
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com29–27
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com29–27
Chris Hall BloodyElbow.com29–27
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Siler · 53%29-27 Siler · 47%

17 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.

Steven Siler

0.47takedowns / 15 min
0.47 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.65 / 15m
2.24 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.97 / 15m
21%
ACCURACY
33%
1.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Kurt Holobaugh

0.65takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Steven Siler↑ +6.0pp
open 46.2%close 52.1%
Kurt Holobaugh↓ −6.0pp
open 53.8%close 47.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Steven Siler opened at 46.2% and closed at 52.1% (+6.0pp), with Kurt Holobaugh 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
Steven Siler100-11746.2%52.1%+6.0pp
Kurt Holobaugh-14010253.8%47.9%−6.0pp
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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