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History · 2013 · UFC Fight Night: Teixeira vs Bader · Joao Zeferino vs Elias Silverio
From the tape · 4 Sep 2013

Joao Zeferino vs Elias Silverio

UFC Fight Night: Teixeira vs Bader · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Result

Elias Silverio beat Joao Zeferino

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Leon Roberts

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.

JZ
Red corner JoaoZeferino“The Brazilian Samurai”Florianopolis, Santa Catarina
VSOn the tape
ES
Blue corner EliasSilverio“Xuxu”Pirapora do Bom Jesus, Sao Paulo
Welterweight3 rounds4 Sep 2013
21-9
Record
13-3
27
Age
−1 yr26
5' 11"
Height
5' 11"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Florianopolis, Santa Catarina
From
Pirapora do Bom Jesus, Sao Paulo
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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 action
Joao Zeferino3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 10BODY33%1 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
Elias Silverio18 sig landed
HEAD17%3 of 11BODY56%10 of 15LEGS28%5 of 7
3 of 12
Sig.
strikes
18 of 33
0 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:49
Control
0:30
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 6Ground 1
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
Joao Zeferino4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 5BODY25%1 of 1LEGS25%1 of 1
Elias Silverio15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 12BODY53%8 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
4 of 7
Sig.
strikes
15 of 22
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:44
Control
1:12
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 8Ground 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 actionEnded 5:00
Joao Zeferino4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 6BODY50%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Elias Silverio16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 17BODY38%6 of 7LEGS12%2 of 5
4 of 9
Sig.
strikes
16 of 29
0 of 5
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:33
Control
2:59
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 9
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 · Leon Roberts
Official totals — Joao Zeferino first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Roy Silbert2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30

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.

Joao Zeferino

0.50takedowns / 15 min
0.50 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.62 / 15m
10.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.26 / 15m
5%
ACCURACY
38%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Elias Silverio

1.62takedowns / 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.

Joao Zeferino↑ +5.2pp
open 44.2%close 49.5%
Elias Silverio↓ −5.2pp
open 55.8%close 50.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Joao Zeferino opened at 44.2% and closed at 49.5% (+5.2pp), with Elias Silverio 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
Joao Zeferino110-10744.2%49.5%+5.2pp
Elias Silverio-150-11255.8%50.5%−5.2pp
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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