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Events · UFC 205: Alvarez vs McGregor · Jim Miller vs Thiago Alves
From the tape · 12 Nov 2016

Jim Miller vs Thiago Alves

UFC 205: Alvarez vs McGregor · New York City, New York, USA
Result

Jim Miller beat Thiago Alves

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Catch WeightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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.

Red corner JimMiller“A-10”Sussex County MMA · Sparta, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
TA
Blue corner ThiagoAlves“Pitbull”American Top Team · Fortaleza, Ceara
Catch Weight3 rounds12 Nov 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 9 of 13 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 9 of 16 UFC wins.
  • Carries 16 points more takedown defence than Miller.
39-19
Record
23-15
33
Age
33
5' 8"
Height
+1″5' 9"
+1″71″
Reach
70″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+424
UFC bouts
20
9/1656% of wins
Finishes
+13%9/1369% of wins
Sussex County MMA
Gym
American Top Team
Sparta, New Jersey
From
Fortaleza, Ceara
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
Jim Miller11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 29BODY18%2 of 2LEGS18%2 of 3
Thiago Alves9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 27BODY44%4 of 4LEGS0%0 of 1
11 of 34
Sig.
strikes
9 of 32
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:47
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Miller firstChris Lee10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Cardo Urso10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jim Miller10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 24BODY20%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Thiago Alves13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 35BODY31%4 of 8LEGS15%2 of 2
10 of 27
Sig.
strikes
13 of 45
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:09
Control
0:07
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Miller firstChris Lee10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Cardo Urso9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Jim Miller7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 19BODY14%1 of 2LEGS29%2 of 3
Thiago Alves14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 28BODY21%3 of 3LEGS29%4 of 4
7 of 24
Sig.
strikes
14 of 35
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:28
Control
0:25
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Miller firstChris Lee10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Cardo Urso10–9

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 · Keith Peterson
Jim MillerThiago Alves
Official totals — Jim Miller first
JudgeTotal
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28

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, Jim Miller first · unofficial

MM AMania.com30–27
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com30–27
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
MM AForum.com.br30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com29–28
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com29–28
Youngs FanSided.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Miller · 69%29-28 Miller · 19%30-28 Miller · 12%

32 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.

Jim Miller

1.49takedowns / 15 min
1.49 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.71 / 15m
3.31 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.18 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
60%
1.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Thiago Alves

0.71takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Jim Miller↑ +1.3pp
open 40.1%close 41.3%
Thiago Alves↓ −1.3pp
open 59.9%close 58.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jim Miller opened at 40.1% and closed at 41.3% (+1.3pp), with Thiago Alves 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
Jim Miller13513440.1%41.3%+1.3pp
Thiago Alves-175-15459.9%58.7%−1.3pp
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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