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Events · UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs Arlovski · Paulo Thiago vs Sean Spencer
From the tape · 13 Sep 2014

Paulo Thiago vs Sean Spencer

UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs Arlovski · Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil
Result

Sean Spencer beat Paulo Thiago

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Fernando Yamasaki

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.

PT
Red corner PauloThiagoX-Gym · Brasilia, Federal District
VSOn the tape
SS
Blue corner SeanSpencer“Black Magic”Fortis MMA · Bluefield, Virginia
Welterweight3 rounds13 Sep 2014
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 2.5 more significant strikes a minute than Thiago.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
18-9
Record
12-6
33
Age
−6 yr27
+1″5' 11"
Height
5' 10"
74″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+812
UFC bouts
4
2/540% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
X-Gym
Gym
Fortis MMA
Brasilia, Federal District
From
Bluefield, Virginia
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⚡ 1 KD Spencer
Paulo Thiago8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 18BODY38%3 of 3LEGS12%1 of 1
Sean Spencer12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 28BODY8%1 of 1LEGS25%3 of 3
8 of 22
Sig.
strikes
12 of 32
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:10
Control
2:21
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 5Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Thiago firstMarco Aurelio Borges9–10Guilherme Bravo9–10Brian Puccillo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Paulo Thiago4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 10BODY25%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Sean Spencer17 sig landed
HEAD88%15 of 27BODY12%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
4 of 11
Sig.
strikes
17 of 30
0 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:31
Control
2:31
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 11
Judges · this round · Thiago firstMarco Aurelio Borges9–10Guilherme Bravo9–10Brian Puccillo9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Paulo Thiago24 sig landed
HEAD75%18 of 67BODY21%5 of 10LEGS4%1 of 1
Sean Spencer34 sig landed
HEAD68%23 of 80BODY29%10 of 16LEGS3%1 of 1
24 of 78
Sig.
strikes
34 of 97
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:04
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 32Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thiago firstMarco Aurelio Borges9–10Guilherme Bravo9–10Brian Puccillo9–10

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 · Fernando Yamasaki
Paulo ThiagoSean Spencer
Official totals — Paulo Thiago first
JudgeTotal
Marco Aurelio Borges27–30
Guilherme Bravo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide27–30
Brian Puccillo1.8 avg spread · 36% wide27–30

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, Paulo Thiago first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com27–30
Cage Pages.com27–30
Severe MMA.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com27–30
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Thomas Myers MMAMania.com27–30
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com27–30
Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com27–30
John Pollock Fight Network28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Spencer · 89%29-28 Spencer · 11%

9 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.

Paulo Thiago

1.42takedowns / 15 min
1.42 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.14 / 15m
4.58 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.42 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
33%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Sean Spencer

0.14takedowns / 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.

Paulo Thiago↓ −13.1pp
open 44.2%close 31.2%
Sean Spencer↑ +13.1pp
open 55.8%close 68.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Paulo Thiago opened at 44.2% and closed at 31.2% (−13.1pp), with Sean Spencer 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
Paulo Thiago11021244.2%31.2%−13.1pp
Sean Spencer-150-24255.8%68.8%+13.1pp
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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