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Events · UFC Fight Night: Maia vs Shields · Thiago Silva vs Matt Hamill
From the tape · 9 Oct 2013

Thiago Silva vs Matt Hamill

UFC Fight Night: Maia vs Shields · Barueri, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Result

Thiago Silva beat Matt Hamill

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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.

TS
Red corner ThiagoSilvaKill Cliff FC · Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo
VSOn the tape
MH
Blue corner MattHamill“The Hammer”Independent · Loveland, Ohio
Light Heavyweight3 rounds9 Oct 2013
The story going in
  • Every one of Silva’s 6 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has finished 5 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Is 8 points more accurate striking than Hamill.
  • Averages 2.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Silva.
19-6
Record
12-8
−7 yr30
Age
37
+1″6' 2"
Height
6' 1"
74″
Reach
+2″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
11
UFC bouts
+314
+50%6/6100% of wins
Finishes
5/1050% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Independent
Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo
From
Loveland, Ohio
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 action
Thiago Silva27 sig landed
HEAD44%12 of 53BODY11%3 of 5LEGS44%12 of 15
Matt Hamill29 sig landed
HEAD41%12 of 61BODY14%4 of 5LEGS45%13 of 17
27 of 73
Sig.
strikes
29 of 83
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:04
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 26Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 1Ground 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⚡ 1 KD Silva
Thiago Silva33 sig landed
HEAD64%21 of 51BODY18%6 of 7LEGS18%6 of 11
Matt Hamill30 sig landed
HEAD60%18 of 55BODY13%4 of 4LEGS27%8 of 10
33 of 69
Sig.
strikes
30 of 69
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 5
0:20
Control
0:39
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 25Clinch 6Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 2Ground 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
Thiago Silva36 sig landed
HEAD42%15 of 36BODY8%3 of 6LEGS50%18 of 21
Matt Hamill11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 25BODY0%0 landedLEGS36%4 of 4
36 of 63
Sig.
strikes
11 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 7
0:26
Control
0:39
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 30Clinch 3Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 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 · Keith Peterson
Official totals — Thiago Silva first
JudgeTotal
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Brian Puccillo1.8 avg spread · 36% wide29–27

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.

Thiago Silva

1.03takedowns / 15 min
1.03 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.00 / 15m
2.19 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.82 / 15m
47%
ACCURACY
34%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Matt Hamill

3.00takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

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.

Thiago Silva↑ +7.6pp
open 69.3%close 76.9%
Matt Hamill↓ −7.6pp
open 30.7%close 23.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Thiago Silva opened at 69.3% and closed at 76.9% (+7.6pp), with Matt Hamill 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
Thiago Silva-285-39069.3%76.9%+7.6pp
Matt Hamill20531930.7%23.1%−7.6pp
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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