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Events · UFC Fight Night: Silva vs Bisping · Anderson Silva vs Michael Bisping
From the tape · 27 Feb 2016

Anderson Silva vs Michael Bisping

UFC Fight Night: Silva vs Bisping · London, England, United Kingdom
Result

Michael Bisping beat Anderson Silva

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMainReferee · Herb Dean

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
MB
Blue corner MichaelBisping“The Count”HB Ultimate · Manchester
Middleweight5 rounds27 Feb 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 14 of 16 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Is 23 points more accurate striking than Bisping.
  • Has finished 9 of 17 UFC wins.
34-11
Record
30-9
40
Age
−4 yr36
+1″6' 2"
Height
6' 1"
+2″77″
Reach
75″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
19
UFC bouts
+524
+35%14/1688% of wins
Finishes
9/1753% of wins
Curitiba, Parana
From
Manchester
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
Anderson Silva8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 11BODY25%2 of 3LEGS25%2 of 2
Michael Bisping17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 38BODY29%5 of 6LEGS18%3 of 6
8 of 16
Sig.
strikes
17 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Silva firstBen Cartlidge9–10Jeff Mullen9–10Andy Roberts9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Bisping
Anderson Silva11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 20BODY9%1 of 1LEGS36%4 of 4
Michael Bisping24 sig landed
HEAD50%12 of 52BODY0%0 of 2LEGS50%12 of 12
11 of 25
Sig.
strikes
24 of 66
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:36
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 6
Judges · this round · Silva firstBen Cartlidge9–10Jeff Mullen9–10Andy Roberts9–10
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Silva
Anderson Silva18 sig landed
HEAD61%11 of 25BODY17%3 of 3LEGS22%4 of 4
Michael Bisping21 sig landed
HEAD57%12 of 49BODY5%1 of 4LEGS38%8 of 9
18 of 32
Sig.
strikes
21 of 62
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:05
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Silva firstBen Cartlidge10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Andy Roberts10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Anderson Silva19 sig landed
HEAD63%12 of 19BODY21%4 of 5LEGS16%3 of 3
Michael Bisping28 sig landed
HEAD61%17 of 64BODY18%5 of 7LEGS21%6 of 9
19 of 27
Sig.
strikes
28 of 80
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Silva firstBen Cartlidge9–10Jeff Mullen9–10Andy Roberts9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Anderson Silva19 sig landed
HEAD74%14 of 29BODY26%5 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Michael Bisping18 sig landed
HEAD44%8 of 48BODY6%1 of 1LEGS50%9 of 9
19 of 35
Sig.
strikes
18 of 58
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:08
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Silva firstBen Cartlidge10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Andy Roberts10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Anderson SilvaMichael Bisping
Official totals — Anderson Silva first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide47–48
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide47–48
Andy Roberts1.9 avg spread · 44% 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 — 22 scored, Anderson Silva first · unofficial

Youngs TheMMACorner.com47–48
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com47–48
MM AMania.com47–48
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com47–48
MM AJunkie.com47–48
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com47–48
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com47–48
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com47–48
MM ABrasil.com.br47–48
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com47–48
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com47–48
Damon Martin Fox Sports47–48
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com47–48
John Pollock Fight Network47–48
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com47–48
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com47–48
Adrian MacNair MMAMania.com47–47
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com48–47
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com48–47
Will Cooling WrestlingObserver.com48–47
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com48–47
Dana Becker FightLine.com49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Bisping · 59%48-47 Silva · 20%48-46 Silva · 4%49-46 Bisping · 2%

1,691 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.

Anderson Silva

0.50takedowns / 15 min
0.50 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.05 / 15m
0.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.44 / 15m
77%
ACCURACY
43%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Michael Bisping

1.05takedowns / 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↓ −1.1pp
open 71.0%close 70.0%
Michael Bisping↑ +1.1pp
open 29.0%close 30.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Anderson Silva opened at 71.0% and closed at 70.0% (−1.1pp), with Michael Bisping 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-290-26271.0%70.0%−1.1pp
Michael Bisping23022229.0%30.0%+1.1pp
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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