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History · 2016 · UFC 196: McGregor vs Diaz · Gian Villante vs Ilir Latifi
From the tape · 5 Mar 2016

Gian Villante vs Ilir Latifi

UFC 196: McGregor vs Diaz · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Ilir Latifi beat Gian Villante

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

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.

GV
Red corner GianVillanteBellmore Kickboxing Academy · Bellmore, New York
VSOn the tape
IL
Blue corner IlirLatifi“The Sledgehammer”Allstars Training Center · Malmo
Light Heavyweight3 rounds5 Mar 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Lands 2.3 more significant strikes a minute than Latifi.
  • Every one of Latifi’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
17-14
Record
17-9
−3 yr30
Age
33
+5″6' 3"
Height
5' 10"
+3″76″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+17
UFC bouts
6
3/475% of wins
Finishes
+25%4/4100% of wins
Bellmore Kickboxing Academy
Gym
Allstars Training Center
Bellmore, New York
From
Malmo
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
Gian Villante6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 11BODY33%2 of 7LEGS17%1 of 3
Ilir Latifi10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 13BODY30%3 of 3LEGS10%1 of 2
6 of 21
Sig.
strikes
10 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 5
0:00
Control
2:05
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Villante firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Gian Villante9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 16BODY22%2 of 7LEGS33%3 of 3
Ilir Latifi10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 15BODY10%1 of 2LEGS20%2 of 2
9 of 26
Sig.
strikes
10 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:02
Control
1:33
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 2
Judges · this round · Villante firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Gian Villante8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 19BODY12%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Ilir Latifi10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 13BODY20%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 21
Sig.
strikes
10 of 16
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:07
Control
0:59
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Villante firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Tony Weeks9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Yves Lavigne
Gian VillanteIlir Latifi
Official totals — Gian Villante first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide27–30

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 — 20 scored, Gian Villante first · unofficial

Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com27–30
MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Pundit Arena.com27–30
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30
Adrian MacNair MMAMania.com27–30
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com27–30
John Pollock Fight Network27–30
Youngs TheMMACorner.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Dana Becker FightLine.com28–29
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Latifi · 64%29-28 Latifi · 27%29-28 Villante · 6%29-26 Latifi · 3%

33 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.

Gian Villante

0.45takedowns / 15 min
0.45 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.11 / 15m
1.96 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.03 / 15m
23%
ACCURACY
35%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Ilir Latifi

2.11takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Gian Villante↓ −6.6pp
open 44.2%close 37.6%
Ilir Latifi↑ +6.6pp
open 55.8%close 62.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Gian Villante opened at 44.2% and closed at 37.6% (−6.6pp), with Ilir Latifi 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
Gian Villante11015744.2%37.6%−6.6pp
Ilir Latifi-150-18255.8%62.4%+6.6pp
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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