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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Teixeira · Reza Madadi vs Joaquim Silva
From the tape · 28 May 2017

Reza Madadi vs Joaquim Silva

UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Teixeira · Stockholm, Sweden
Result

Joaquim Silva beat Reza Madadi

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · 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.

RM
Red corner RezaMadadi“Mad Dog”Allstars Training Center · Tehran
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JoaquimSilva“Netto BJJ”American Top Team · Anapolis, Goias
Lightweight3 rounds28 May 2017
The story going in
  • Every one of Madadi’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 6 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Silva.
14-6
Record
14-6
38
Age
−10 yr28
+3″5' 11"
Height
5' 8"
+4″73″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+46
UFC bouts
2
3/3100% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Allstars Training Center
Gym
American Top Team
Tehran
From
Anapolis, Goias
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
Reza Madadi5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 9BODY40%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Joaquim Silva6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 22BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
5 of 11
Sig.
strikes
6 of 22
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:18
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Madadi firstAndreas Grüner10–9Mans Nilsson10–9Andy Roberts10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Reza Madadi16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 34BODY25%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Joaquim Silva21 sig landed
HEAD57%12 of 64BODY43%9 of 11LEGS0%0 of 1
16 of 39
Sig.
strikes
21 of 76
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:07
Control
0:31
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Madadi firstAndreas Grüner10–9Mans Nilsson9–10Andy Roberts9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Reza Madadi5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 10BODY40%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Joaquim Silva13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 41BODY8%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 12
Sig.
strikes
13 of 44
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:12
Control
1:32
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 4
Judges · this round · Madadi firstAndreas Grüner9–10Mans Nilsson9–10Andy Roberts9–10

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 · Marc Goddard
Reza MadadiJoaquim Silva
Official totals — Reza Madadi first
JudgeTotal
Andreas Grüner2.4 avg spread · 68% wide29–28
Mans Nilsson28–29
Andy Roberts1.9 avg spread · 44% wide28–29

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 — 16 scored, Reza Madadi first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
John Pollock Fight Network28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Silva · 47%29-28 Madadi · 41%30-27 Madadi · 6%29-27 Madadi · 3%

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.

Reza Madadi

3.17takedowns / 15 min
3.17 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.34 / 15m
9.61 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.68 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
50%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Joaquim Silva

0.34takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Reza Madadi↑ +2.5pp
open 39.3%close 41.8%
Joaquim Silva↓ −2.5pp
open 60.7%close 58.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Reza Madadi opened at 39.3% and closed at 41.8% (+2.5pp), with Joaquim Silva 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
Reza Madadi14013139.3%41.8%+2.5pp
Joaquim Silva-180-15160.7%58.2%−2.5pp
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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