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History · 2014 · UFC Fight Night 56: Shogun vs Saint Preux · Claudio Silva vs Leon Edwards
From the tape · 8 Nov 2014

Claudio Silva vs Leon Edwards

UFC Fight Night 56: Shogun vs Saint Preux · Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Result

Claudio Silva beat Leon Edwards

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Mario 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.

CS
Red corner ClaudioSilva“Hannibal”London Shootfighters · Rondonopolis, Mato Grosso
VSOn the tape
Blue corner LeonEdwards“Rocky”Team Renegade · Erdington, West Midlands
Welterweight3 rounds8 Nov 2014
The story going in
  • Averages 1.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Edwards.
  • Carries 19 points more takedown defence than Silva.
14-4
Record
22-6
32
Age
−9 yr23
5' 11"
Height
+3″6' 2"
71″
Reach
+3″74″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
London Shootfighters
Gym
Team Renegade
Rondonopolis, Mato Grosso
From
Erdington, West Midlands
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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
Claudio Silva9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 20BODY33%3 of 3LEGS0%0 of 2
Leon Edwards15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 23BODY20%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 25
Sig.
strikes
15 of 27
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:51
Control
1:11
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 4Ground 4
Judges · this round · Silva firstGuilherme Bravo9–10Derek Cleary10–9Roy Silbert9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Claudio Silva15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 28BODY7%1 of 3LEGS47%7 of 9
Leon Edwards14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 21BODY36%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 40
Sig.
strikes
14 of 26
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:21
Control
0:02
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Silva firstGuilherme Bravo9–10Derek Cleary9–10Roy Silbert10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Claudio Silva10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 11BODY50%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Leon Edwards4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
10 of 16
Sig.
strikes
4 of 8
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:57
Control
0:24
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Silva firstGuilherme Bravo10–9Derek Cleary10–9Roy Silbert10–9

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 · Mario Yamasaki
Claudio SilvaLeon Edwards
Official totals — Claudio Silva first
JudgeTotal
Guilherme Bravo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide28–29
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Roy Silbert2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 12 scored, Claudio Silva first · unofficial

Sean Smith BleacherReport.com29–28
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–29
Severe MMA.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Wrestling Observer28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Edwards · 64%29-28 Silva · 27%30-27 Silva · 4%30-27 Edwards · 3%

97 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.

Claudio Silva

2.85takedowns / 15 min
2.85 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.25 / 15m
10.96 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.38 / 15m
26%
ACCURACY
37%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Leon Edwards

1.25takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Claudio Silva vs Leon Edwards.

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