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Events · UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs. Brunson 2 · Vinc Pichel vs Joaquim Silva
From the tape · 27 Jan 2018

Vinc Pichel vs Joaquim Silva

UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs. Brunson 2 · Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Result

Vinc Pichel beat Joaquim Silva

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Kevin MacDonald

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.

VP
Red corner VincPichel“From Hell”Factory X · Simi Valley, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JoaquimSilva“Netto BJJ”American Top Team · Anapolis, Goias
Lightweight3 rounds27 Jan 2018
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Averages 2.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Silva.
  • Carries 39 points more takedown defence than Pichel.
14-5
Record
14-6
35
Age
−7 yr28
+2″5' 10"
Height
5' 8"
+3″72″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+14
UFC bouts
3
1/333% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Factory X
Gym
American Top Team
Simi Valley, California
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
Vinc Pichel13 sig landed
HEAD23%3 of 25BODY23%3 of 3LEGS54%7 of 10
Joaquim Silva6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 12BODY33%2 of 3LEGS17%1 of 1
13 of 38
Sig.
strikes
6 of 16
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:22
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pichel firstPedro Claudio10–9Derek Cleary10–9Andrew Hopper Jr.9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Vinc Pichel19 sig landed
HEAD47%9 of 30BODY16%3 of 8LEGS37%7 of 10
Joaquim Silva11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 23BODY9%1 of 3LEGS27%3 of 4
19 of 48
Sig.
strikes
11 of 30
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:11
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pichel firstPedro Claudio10–9Derek Cleary10–9Andrew Hopper Jr.10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Vinc Pichel28 sig landed
HEAD43%12 of 80BODY32%9 of 10LEGS25%7 of 10
Joaquim Silva28 sig landed
HEAD71%20 of 44BODY25%7 of 9LEGS4%1 of 1
28 of 100
Sig.
strikes
28 of 54
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:15
Control
0:00
Distance 23Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pichel firstPedro Claudio9–10Derek Cleary9–10Andrew Hopper Jr.10–9

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 · Kevin MacDonald
Vinc PichelJoaquim Silva
Official totals — Vinc Pichel first
JudgeTotal
Pedro Claudio29–28
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Andrew Hopper Jr.29–28

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 — 16 scored, Vinc Pichel first · unofficial

Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
Dominik Durniat Extreme Sports Channel29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Nolan King MMA- Today.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Pichel · 45%29-28 Silva · 38%30-27 Pichel · 4%30-28 Pichel · 4%30-27 Silva · 2%

53 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.

Vinc Pichel

2.50takedowns / 15 min
2.50 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.34 / 15m
4.90 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.68 / 15m
51%
ACCURACY
50%
0.20 / 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.

Vinc Pichel↑ +1.1pp
open 44.2%close 45.3%
Joaquim Silva↓ −1.1pp
open 55.8%close 54.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Vinc Pichel opened at 44.2% and closed at 45.3% (+1.1pp), 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
Vinc Pichel11011244.2%45.3%+1.1pp
Joaquim Silva-150-13255.8%54.7%−1.1pp
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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