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History · 2013 · UFC 164: Henderson vs Pettis 2 · Jamie Varner vs Gleison Tibau
From the tape · 31 Aug 2013

Jamie Varner vs Gleison Tibau

UFC 164: Henderson vs Pettis 2 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Result

Gleison Tibau beat Jamie Varner

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

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.

JV
Red corner JamieVarnerPhoenix, Arizona
VSOn the tape
GT
Blue corner GleisonTibauAmerican Top Team · Mossoro, Rio Grande do Norte
Lightweight3 rounds31 Aug 2013
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 12 UFC wins.
  • 19 UFC bouts deep — 14 more than Varner.
21-11-1
Record
33-14
−1 yr28
Age
29
5' 8"
Height
+2″5' 10"
71″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
5
UFC bouts
+1419
+25%2/367% of wins
Finishes
5/1242% of wins
Phoenix, Arizona
From
Mossoro, Rio Grande do Norte
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
Jamie Varner10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 16BODY20%2 of 3LEGS20%2 of 3
Gleison Tibau7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 20BODY0%0 landedLEGS14%1 of 1
10 of 22
Sig.
strikes
7 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
1:05
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 2
Judges · this round · Varner firstSal D'Amato9–10Brian Puccillo9–10Otto Torriero10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Jamie Varner0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 2 thrown

Gleison Tibau13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 14BODY15%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
0 of 2
Sig.
strikes
13 of 17
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
4:20
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 13
Judges · this round · Varner firstSal D'Amato9–10Brian Puccillo9–10Otto Torriero9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jamie Varner27 sig landed
HEAD81%22 of 44BODY19%5 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Gleison Tibau6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 14BODY0%0 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
27 of 52
Sig.
strikes
6 of 17
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 3
1:58
Control
0:16
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 15
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Varner firstSal D'Amato10–9Brian Puccillo10–9Otto Torriero10–8

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

Split Decision

Referee · Yves Lavigne
Jamie VarnerGleison Tibau
Official totals — Jamie Varner first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Brian Puccillo1.8 avg spread · 36% wide28–29
Otto Torriero29–27

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 — 14 scored, Jamie Varner first · unofficial

Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
Chase Raymond BJPenn.com28–29
John Pollock Fight Network28–29
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com28–29
MM AWeekly.com28–29
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com28–29
Steven Rondina BleacherReport.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Brent Brookhouse BloodyElbow.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Varner · 39%29-28 Tibau · 31%29-27 Varner · 6%

36 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.

Jamie Varner

3.49takedowns / 15 min
3.49 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.08 / 15m
6.58 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.70 / 15m
53%
ACCURACY
53%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Gleison Tibau

4.08takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Jamie Varner↓ −0.9pp
open 50.9%close 50.0%
Gleison Tibau↑ +0.9pp
open 49.1%close 50.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jamie Varner opened at 50.9% and closed at 50.0% (−0.9pp), with Gleison Tibau 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
Jamie Varner-125-11050.9%50.0%−0.9pp
Gleison Tibau-115-11049.1%50.0%+0.9pp
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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