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History · 2013 · UFC 160: Velasquez vs Silva 2 · Stephen Thompson vs Nah-Shon Burrell
From the tape · 25 May 2013

Stephen Thompson vs Nah-Shon Burrell

UFC 160: Velasquez vs Silva 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Stephen Thompson beat Nah-Shon Burrell

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Steve Mazzagatti

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.

ST
Red corner StephenThompson“Wonderboy”Simpsonville, South Carolina
VSOn the tape
NB
Blue corner Nah-ShonBurrell“The Rock n Rolla”Renzo Gracie Philly · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Welterweight3 rounds25 May 2013
17-9-1
Record
15-7
30
Age
−7 yr23
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+12
UFC bouts
1
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Simpsonville, South Carolina
From
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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
Stephen Thompson15 sig landed
HEAD33%5 of 18BODY47%7 of 11LEGS20%3 of 3
Nah-Shon Burrell18 sig landed
HEAD17%3 of 18BODY83%15 of 17LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 32
Sig.
strikes
18 of 35
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:14
Control
0:21
Distance 9Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 16Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstLester Griffin10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Stephen Thompson22 sig landed
HEAD41%9 of 32BODY45%10 of 10LEGS14%3 of 5
Nah-Shon Burrell15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 24BODY47%7 of 9LEGS7%1 of 1
22 of 47
Sig.
strikes
15 of 34
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:31
Control
0:19
Distance 17Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 9Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstLester Griffin10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Stephen Thompson28 sig landed
HEAD57%16 of 40BODY39%11 of 14LEGS4%1 of 1
Nah-Shon Burrell23 sig landed
HEAD70%16 of 40BODY30%7 of 12LEGS0%0 landed
28 of 55
Sig.
strikes
23 of 52
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:32
Control
0:00
Distance 23Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstLester Griffin9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Tony Weeks10–9

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 · Steve Mazzagatti
Stephen ThompsonNah-Shon Burrell
Official totals — Stephen Thompson first
JudgeTotal
Lester Griffin2.0 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% 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, Stephen Thompson first · unofficial

Dave Doyle MMAFighting.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca29–28
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com29–28
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Thompson · 52%29-28 Thompson · 37%29-28 Burrell · 4%30-28 Thompson · 4%30-26 Thompson · 4%

27 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.

Stephen Thompson

0.23takedowns / 15 min
0.23 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
0.66 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
35%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Nah-Shon Burrell

0.00takedowns / 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.

Stephen Thompson↑ +3.0pp
open 59.2%close 62.2%
Nah-Shon Burrell↓ −3.0pp
open 40.8%close 37.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Stephen Thompson opened at 59.2% and closed at 62.2% (+3.0pp), with Nah-Shon Burrell 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
Stephen Thompson-170-17759.2%62.2%+3.0pp
Nah-Shon Burrell13015740.8%37.8%−3.0pp
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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