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History · 2015 · UFC 183: Silva vs Diaz · Anderson Silva vs Nick Diaz
From the tape · 31 Jan 2015

Anderson Silva vs Nick Diaz

UFC 183: Silva vs Diaz · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

No winner recorded The official record carries no winner for this bout — a draw, a no-contest or an overturned result.

Method
Overturned
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMainReferee · John McCarthy

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.

AS
Red corner AndersonSilva“The Spider”Curitiba, Parana
VSOn the tape
ND
Blue corner NickDiazCesar Gracie Fight Team · Stockton, California
Middleweight5 rounds31 Jan 2015
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 14 of 16 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 7 UFC wins.
34-11
Record
26-10
39
Age
−8 yr31
+1″6' 2"
Height
6' 1"
+1″77″
Reach
76″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+518
UFC bouts
13
+2%14/1688% of wins
Finishes
6/786% of wins
Curitiba, Parana
From
Stockton, California
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Anderson Silva21 sig landed
HEAD62%13 of 29BODY19%4 of 5LEGS19%4 of 6
Nick Diaz19 sig landed
HEAD58%11 of 43BODY16%3 of 7LEGS26%5 of 10
21 of 40
Sig.
strikes
19 of 60
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:03
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Anderson Silva21 sig landed
HEAD52%11 of 29BODY10%2 of 2LEGS38%8 of 8
Nick Diaz15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 25BODY13%2 of 4LEGS40%6 of 8
21 of 39
Sig.
strikes
15 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 35:00 of action
Anderson Silva25 sig landed
HEAD44%11 of 34BODY16%4 of 7LEGS40%10 of 12
Nick Diaz18 sig landed
HEAD50%9 of 24BODY17%3 of 7LEGS33%6 of 13
25 of 53
Sig.
strikes
18 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 2Ground 0
Round 45:00 of action
Anderson Silva15 sig landed
HEAD27%4 of 15BODY27%4 of 5LEGS47%7 of 8
Nick Diaz14 sig landed
HEAD36%5 of 22BODY21%3 of 7LEGS43%6 of 12
15 of 28
Sig.
strikes
14 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Anderson Silva26 sig landed
HEAD69%18 of 48BODY0%0 landedLEGS31%8 of 9
Nick Diaz11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 26BODY0%0 of 6LEGS36%4 of 9
26 of 57
Sig.
strikes
11 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:02
Distance 25Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Draw/NC

Round
5
Clock
5:00
Method
Overturned

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: John McCarthy.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Anderson Silva

0.50takedowns / 15 min
0.50 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.28 / 15m
0.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.00 / 15m
77%
ACCURACY
32%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Nick Diaz

1.28takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Anderson Silva↑ +0.8pp
open 75.5%close 76.3%
Nick Diaz↓ −0.8pp
open 24.5%close 23.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Anderson Silva opened at 75.5% and closed at 76.3% (+0.8pp), with Nick Diaz 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
Anderson Silva-405-36275.5%76.3%+0.8pp
Nick Diaz28531224.5%23.7%−0.8pp
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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