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History · 2017 · UFC 216: Ferguson vs. Lee · Thales Leites vs Brad Tavares
From the tape · 7 Oct 2017

Thales Leites vs Brad Tavares

UFC 216: Ferguson vs. Lee · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Brad Tavares beat Thales Leites

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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.

TL
Red corner ThalesLeitesNova Uniao · Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro
VSOn the tape
Blue corner BradTavaresKailua, Hawaii
Middleweight3 rounds7 Oct 2017
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 18 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Tavares.
  • Carries 50 points more takedown defence than Leites.
28-9
Record
21-13
36
Age
−7 yr29
6' 1"
Height
6' 1"
+4″78″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+418
UFC bouts
14
+48%7/1258% of wins
Finishes
1/1010% of wins
Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro
From
Kailua, Hawaii
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
Thales Leites12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 23BODY0%0 of 1LEGS42%5 of 6
Brad Tavares20 sig landed
HEAD50%10 of 36BODY15%3 of 4LEGS35%7 of 7
12 of 30
Sig.
strikes
20 of 47
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:21
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Leites firstSal D'Amato9–10Dave Hagen9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Thales Leites20 sig landed
HEAD60%12 of 43BODY5%1 of 3LEGS35%7 of 7
Brad Tavares22 sig landed
HEAD64%14 of 36BODY5%1 of 2LEGS32%7 of 7
20 of 53
Sig.
strikes
22 of 45
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:30
Control
0:13
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Leites firstSal D'Amato9–10Dave Hagen9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD TavaresEnded 5:00
Thales Leites14 sig landed
HEAD86%12 of 46BODY0%0 of 1LEGS14%2 of 2
Brad Tavares28 sig landed
HEAD68%19 of 35BODY0%0 landedLEGS32%9 of 9
14 of 49
Sig.
strikes
28 of 44
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:06
Control
1:10
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 5
Judges · this round · Leites firstSal D'Amato8–10Dave Hagen8–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10

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 · Chris Tognoni
Thales LeitesBrad Tavares
Official totals — Thales Leites first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide26–30
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide26–30
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% 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 — 14 scored, Thales Leites first · unofficial

Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com26–30
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com26–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com26–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno26–30
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com26–30
MM AMania.com26–30
John Pollock Fight Network26–30
Sheehan SevereMMA.com27–30
Matthew Wells FanSided.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Tavares · 54%30-26 Tavares · 46%

22 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.

Thales Leites

2.10takedowns / 15 min
2.10 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.70 / 15m
7.78 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.69 / 15m
27%
ACCURACY
26%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Brad Tavares

0.70takedowns / 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.

Thales Leites→ no move
open 38.6%close 38.2%
Brad Tavares→ no move
open 61.4%close 61.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Thales Leites opened at 38.6% and closed at 38.2% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Thales Leites14515438.6%38.2%−0.4pp
Brad Tavares-185-17661.4%61.8%+0.4pp
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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