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History · 2016 · UFC Fight Night: Silva vs Bisping · Gegard Mousasi vs Thales Leites
From the tape · 27 Feb 2016

Gegard Mousasi vs Thales Leites

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

Gegard Mousasi beat Thales Leites

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightCo-MainReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

GM
Red corner GegardMousasiTeam Jurojin · Leiden, South Holland
VSOn the tape
TL
Blue corner ThalesLeitesNova Uniao · Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro
Middleweight3 rounds27 Feb 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Carries 29 points more takedown defence than Leites.
  • 14 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Mousasi.
42-6-2
Record
28-9
−4 yr30
Age
34
+1″6' 2"
Height
6' 1"
76″
Reach
+2″78″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
7
UFC bouts
+714
2/450% of wins
Finishes
+10%6/1060% of wins
Team Jurojin
Gym
Nova Uniao
Leiden, South Holland
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Gegard Mousasi22 sig landed
HEAD50%11 of 37BODY27%6 of 6LEGS23%5 of 6
Thales Leites4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 12BODY0%0 landedLEGS25%1 of 1
22 of 49
Sig.
strikes
4 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:21
Control
1:31
Distance 15Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Mousasi firstMark Collett10–9Peter Lavery9–10Maciej Motylewski10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Gegard Mousasi38 sig landed
HEAD71%27 of 68BODY8%3 of 3LEGS21%8 of 11
Thales Leites7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 27BODY0%0 of 2LEGS43%3 of 5
38 of 82
Sig.
strikes
7 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:31
Control
0:00
Distance 32Clinch 2Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Mousasi firstMark Collett10–9Peter Lavery10–9Maciej Motylewski10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Gegard Mousasi21 sig landed
HEAD81%17 of 36BODY10%2 of 2LEGS10%2 of 2
Thales Leites6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 21BODY0%0 of 1LEGS17%1 of 1
21 of 40
Sig.
strikes
6 of 23
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
2:50
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Mousasi firstMark Collett10–9Peter Lavery10–9Maciej Motylewski10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Gegard MousasiThales Leites
Official totals — Gegard Mousasi first
JudgeTotal
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide30–27
Peter Lavery29–28
Maciej Motylewski30–27

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, Gegard Mousasi first · unofficial

Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com30–27
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–27
Adrian MacNair MMAMania.com30–27
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com30–27
John Pollock Fight Network30–27
Dana Becker FightLine.com30–27
Will Cooling WrestlingObserver.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Mousasi · 89%30-28 Mousasi · 3%30-26 Mousasi · 3%30-25 Mousasi · 3%

37 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.

Gegard Mousasi

1.59takedowns / 15 min
1.59 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.10 / 15m
2.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.78 / 15m
60%
ACCURACY
27%
1.10 / 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.

Gegard Mousasi↑ +5.9pp
open 67.4%close 73.3%
Thales Leites↓ −5.9pp
open 32.6%close 26.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Gegard Mousasi opened at 67.4% and closed at 73.3% (+5.9pp), 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
Gegard Mousasi-265-31767.4%73.3%+5.9pp
Thales Leites18526232.6%26.7%−5.9pp
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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