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Events · UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs Leites · Michael Bisping vs Thales Leites
From the tape · 18 Jul 2015

Michael Bisping vs Thales Leites

UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs Leites · Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Result

Michael Bisping beat Thales Leites

Method
Decision - Split
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMainReferee · Leon Roberts

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.

MB
Red corner MichaelBisping“The Count”HB Ultimate · Manchester
VSOn the tape
TL
Blue corner ThalesLeitesNova Uniao · Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro
Middleweight5 rounds18 Jul 2015
The story going in
  • Has finished 9 of 16 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • 23 UFC bouts deep — 10 more than Leites.
  • Has finished 6 of 10 UFC wins.
30-9
Record
28-9
36
Age
−3 yr33
6' 1"
Height
6' 1"
75″
Reach
+3″78″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1023
UFC bouts
13
9/1656% of wins
Finishes
+4%6/1060% of wins
HB Ultimate
Gym
Nova Uniao
Manchester
From
Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Michael Bisping13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 45BODY0%0 of 1LEGS23%3 of 3
Thales Leites10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 13BODY10%1 of 2LEGS50%5 of 5
13 of 49
Sig.
strikes
10 of 20
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:31
Control
0:35
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Bisping firstMark Collett10–9Howard Hughes10–9Paul Sutherland10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Michael Bisping24 sig landed
HEAD42%10 of 34BODY4%1 of 3LEGS54%13 of 13
Thales Leites15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 24BODY7%1 of 1LEGS47%7 of 7
24 of 50
Sig.
strikes
15 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Bisping firstMark Collett10–9Howard Hughes10–9Paul Sutherland9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Michael Bisping21 sig landed
HEAD57%12 of 43BODY10%2 of 3LEGS33%7 of 8
Thales Leites21 sig landed
HEAD76%16 of 37BODY10%2 of 2LEGS14%3 of 3
21 of 54
Sig.
strikes
21 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:04
Control
0:22
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Bisping firstMark Collett9–10Howard Hughes9–10Paul Sutherland9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Michael Bisping29 sig landed
HEAD59%17 of 46BODY7%2 of 2LEGS34%10 of 11
Thales Leites11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 25BODY9%1 of 4LEGS27%3 of 5
29 of 59
Sig.
strikes
11 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Bisping firstMark Collett10–9Howard Hughes10–9Paul Sutherland10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Michael Bisping28 sig landed
HEAD86%24 of 61BODY4%1 of 1LEGS11%3 of 3
Thales Leites22 sig landed
HEAD68%15 of 57BODY18%4 of 6LEGS14%3 of 3
28 of 65
Sig.
strikes
22 of 66
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:01
Distance 27Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Bisping firstMark Collett10–9Howard Hughes9–10Paul Sutherland9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Leon Roberts
Michael BispingThales Leites
Official totals — Michael Bisping first
JudgeTotal
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide49–46
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide48–47
Paul Sutherland2.2 avg spread · 52% wide47–48

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 — 17 scored, Michael Bisping first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com49–46
MM ABrasil.com.br49–46
MM AJunkie.com49–46
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com49–46
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com49–46
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com49–46
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com49–46
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com49–46
Cage Pages.com49–46
Severe MMA.com49–46
Fergus O' Farrell Setanta48–47
MM AMania.com48–47
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com48–47
Nate Wilcox BloodyElbow.com48–47
Pundit Arena.com47–48
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com46–49

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Bisping · 43%48-47 Bisping · 24%48-47 Leites · 17%49-46 Leites · 6%49-47 Bisping · 3%

133 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 Bisping

1.05takedowns / 15 min
1.05 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.10 / 15m
2.44 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.78 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
27%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Thales Leites

2.10takedowns / 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.

Michael Bisping↑ +1.2pp
open 53.8%close 55.1%
Thales Leites↓ −1.2pp
open 46.2%close 44.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Michael Bisping opened at 53.8% and closed at 55.1% (+1.2pp), with Thales Leites 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 Bisping-140-13453.8%55.1%+1.2pp
Thales Leites10011446.2%44.9%−1.2pp
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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