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Events · Gian Villante vs Sean O'Connell
From the tape · 28 Jun 2014

Gian Villante vs Sean O'Connell

Result

Gian Villante beat Sean O'Connell

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Peter Hickmott

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.

GV
Red corner GianVillanteBellmore Kickboxing Academy · Bellmore, New York
VSOn the tape
SO
Blue corner SeanO'Connell“The Real OC”Salt Lake City, Utah
Light Heavyweight3 rounds28 Jun 2014
The story going in
  • Carries 53 points more takedown defence than O'Connell.
  • Lands 1.1 more significant strikes a minute than Villante.
17-14
Record
17-9
−2 yr28
Age
30
+2″6' 3"
Height
6' 1"
+2″76″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+23
UFC bouts
1
Bellmore, New York
From
Salt Lake City, Utah
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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
Gian Villante33 sig landed
HEAD58%19 of 35BODY27%9 of 10LEGS15%5 of 6
Sean O'Connell41 sig landed
HEAD68%28 of 58BODY5%2 of 4LEGS27%11 of 12
33 of 51
Sig.
strikes
41 of 74
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:02
Control
2:02
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 24Clinch 9Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 10Ground 0
Judges · this round · Villante firstAnthony Dimitriou10–9Charlie Keech9–10Kon Papaioannou10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD O'Connell
Gian Villante34 sig landed
HEAD47%16 of 41BODY32%11 of 11LEGS21%7 of 7
Sean O'Connell40 sig landed
HEAD52%21 of 61BODY25%10 of 11LEGS22%9 of 9
34 of 59
Sig.
strikes
40 of 81
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:01
Control
1:10
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 27Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Villante firstAnthony Dimitriou9–10Charlie Keech9–10Kon Papaioannou9–10
Round 35:00 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Gian Villante26 sig landed
HEAD77%20 of 46BODY12%3 of 4LEGS12%3 of 4
Sean O'Connell28 sig landed
HEAD75%21 of 64BODY18%5 of 7LEGS7%2 of 2
26 of 54
Sig.
strikes
28 of 73
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:04
Control
0:59
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 23Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Villante firstAnthony Dimitriou10–9Charlie Keech10–9Kon Papaioannou10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Peter Hickmott
Gian VillanteSean O'Connell
Official totals — Gian Villante first
JudgeTotal
Anthony Dimitriou2.4 avg spread · 53% wide29–28
Charlie Keech2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Kon Papaioannou2.1 avg spread · 42% wide29–28

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 — 8 scored, Gian Villante first · unofficial

Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com29–28
Patrick Wyman BloodyElbow.com29–28
Cage Pages.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Thomas Myers SBNation.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 O'Connell · 68%29-28 Villante · 20%30-27 O'Connell · 8%30-29 O'Connell · 4%

25 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.

Gian Villante

0.45takedowns / 15 min
0.45 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
1.96 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
23%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Sean O'Connell

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 (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.

Gian Villante→ no move
open 71.8%close 71.9%
Sean O'Connell→ no move
open 28.2%close 28.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Gian Villante opened at 71.8% and closed at 71.9% once the vig is taken out — a 0.1pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Gian Villante-315-28271.8%71.9%+0.1pp
Sean O'Connell23524728.2%28.1%−0.1pp
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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