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Events · UFC 173: Barao vs Dillashaw · Michael Chiesa vs Francisco Trinaldo
From the tape · 24 May 2014

Michael Chiesa vs Francisco Trinaldo

UFC 173: Barao vs Dillashaw · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Michael Chiesa beat Francisco Trinaldo

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

Red corner MichaelChiesa“Maverick”Sikjitsu · Spokane, Washington
VSOn the tape
FT
Blue corner FranciscoTrinaldo“Massaranduba”Brazilian TKO · Brasilia, Federal District
Lightweight3 rounds24 May 2014
The story going in
  • Every one of Chiesa’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Averages 2.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Trinaldo.
  • Lands 1.1 more significant strikes a minute than Chiesa.
20-7
Record
28-9
−9 yr26
Age
35
+4″6' 1"
Height
5' 9"
+5″75″
Reach
70″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
4
UFC bouts
+26
+25%3/3100% of wins
Finishes
3/475% of wins
Sikjitsu
Gym
Brazilian TKO
Spokane, Washington
From
Brasilia, Federal District
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
Michael Chiesa12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 30BODY25%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Francisco Trinaldo4 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY75%3 of 3LEGS25%1 of 1
12 of 34
Sig.
strikes
4 of 4
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:30
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Chiesa firstAdalaide Byrd10–8Roy Silbert10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–8
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Michael Chiesa3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 13BODY0%0 of 1LEGS33%1 of 1
Francisco Trinaldo6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 15BODY17%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
3 of 15
Sig.
strikes
6 of 16
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:14
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Chiesa firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Roy Silbert10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Michael Chiesa4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 20BODY25%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Francisco Trinaldo3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 12BODY0%0 of 1LEGS33%1 of 1
4 of 21
Sig.
strikes
3 of 14
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:07
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Chiesa firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Roy Silbert10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Michael ChiesaFrancisco Trinaldo
Official totals — Michael Chiesa first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–26
Roy Silbert2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide30–26

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 — 13 scored, Michael Chiesa first · unofficial

Severe MMA.com30–26
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com30–26
John Pollock The Fight Network30–26
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–26
Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com30–27
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–27
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com30–27
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Chiesa · 58%30-27 Chiesa · 42%

19 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.

Michael Chiesa

3.11takedowns / 15 min
3.11 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.98 / 15m
6.62 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.33 / 15m
47%
ACCURACY
42%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Francisco Trinaldo

0.98takedowns / 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.

Michael Chiesa↓ −0.6pp
open 59.2%close 58.5%
Francisco Trinaldo↑ +0.6pp
open 40.8%close 41.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Michael Chiesa opened at 59.2% and closed at 58.5% (−0.6pp), with Francisco Trinaldo 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
Michael Chiesa-170-15059.2%58.5%−0.6pp
Francisco Trinaldo13013540.8%41.5%+0.6pp
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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