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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Machida · Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos vs Max Griffin
From the tape · 28 Oct 2017

Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos vs Max Griffin

UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Machida · Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Result

Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos beat Max Griffin

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Jerin Valel

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 Elizeu Zaleski dosSantos“Capoeira”CM System · Francisco Beltrao, Parana
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MaxGriffin“Pain”MMA Gold Fight Team · Sacramento, California
Welterweight3 rounds28 Oct 2017
25-10-1
Record
20-13
−1 yr30
Age
31
5' 11"
Height
5' 11"
73″
Reach
+3″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+24
UFC bouts
2
1/333% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
CM System
Gym
MMA Gold Fight Team
Francisco Beltrao, Parana
From
Sacramento, California
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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⚡ 1 KD Griffin
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos41 sig landed
HEAD71%29 of 69BODY22%9 of 11LEGS7%3 of 4
Max Griffin19 sig landed
HEAD84%16 of 48BODY11%2 of 4LEGS5%1 of 1
41 of 84
Sig.
strikes
19 of 53
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:33
Control
0:39
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 15Clinch 17Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 4
Judges · this round · Santos firstGuilherme Bravo10–9Derek Cleary10–9Dave Tirelli10–8
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Griffin
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos15 sig landed
HEAD73%11 of 29BODY20%3 of 7LEGS7%1 of 1
Max Griffin20 sig landed
HEAD90%18 of 36BODY10%2 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 37
Sig.
strikes
20 of 43
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:31
Control
0:28
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 10Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 7Ground 2
Judges · this round · Santos firstGuilherme Bravo9–10Derek Cleary9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos28 sig landed
HEAD57%16 of 39BODY25%7 of 10LEGS18%5 of 6
Max Griffin12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 26BODY33%4 of 9LEGS8%1 of 2
28 of 55
Sig.
strikes
12 of 37
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:29
Control
0:02
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 17Clinch 11Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Santos firstGuilherme Bravo10–9Derek Cleary10–9Dave Tirelli10–9

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 · Jerin Valel
Elizeu Zaleski dos SantosMax Griffin
Official totals — Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos first
JudgeTotal
Guilherme Bravo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide29–28
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide29–27

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 — 15 scored, Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos first · unofficial

Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–26
Santos Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–27
Santos Steve Duncan mma.uno29–27
Santos Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–27
Santos Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–27
Santos Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–27
Santos Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–27
Santos Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–27
Santos CombatPress.com29–28
Santos Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Santos MMAJunkie.com29–28
Santos Rafael Oreiro MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Santos Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Santos Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com29–28
Santos MMAMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Zaleski dos Santos · 50%29-27 Zaleski dos Santos · 46%

24 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.

Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos

0.79takedowns / 15 min
0.79 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.44 / 15m
3.95 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.51 / 15m
20%
ACCURACY
41%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Max Griffin

1.44takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos↑ +3.0pp
open 63.8%close 66.8%
Max Griffin↓ −3.0pp
open 36.2%close 33.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos opened at 63.8% and closed at 66.8% (+3.0pp), with Max Griffin 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
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos-210-22763.8%66.8%+3.0pp
Max Griffin16019036.2%33.2%−3.0pp
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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