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Events · UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Anders · Lyoto Machida vs Eryk Anders
From the tape · 3 Feb 2018

Lyoto Machida vs Eryk Anders

UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Anders · Belem, Para, Brazil
Result

Lyoto Machida beat Eryk Anders

Method
Decision - Split
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMainReferee · 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.

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Red corner LyotoMachida“The Dragon”Belem, Para
VSOn the tape
Blue corner ErykAnders“Ya Boi”Spartan Fitness MMA · Birmingham, Alabama
Middleweight5 rounds3 Feb 2018
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 7 of 14 UFC wins.
24-8
Record
18-9
39
Age
−9 yr30
6' 1"
Height
6' 1"
74″
Reach
+1″75″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+2022
UFC bouts
2
7/1450% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Belem, Para
From
Birmingham, Alabama
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Lyoto Machida15 sig landed
HEAD13%2 of 8BODY13%2 of 4LEGS73%11 of 14
Eryk Anders2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY100%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 26
Sig.
strikes
2 of 6
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:18
Control
0:00
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Machida firstGuilherme Bravo10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Lyoto Machida14 sig landed
HEAD29%4 of 11BODY29%4 of 5LEGS43%6 of 6
Eryk Anders6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 11BODY33%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 22
Sig.
strikes
6 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:29
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Machida firstGuilherme Bravo10–9Marcos Rosales9–10Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Lyoto Machida10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 14BODY20%2 of 4LEGS10%1 of 1
Eryk Anders9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 16BODY33%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 19
Sig.
strikes
9 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
0:36
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Machida firstGuilherme Bravo9–10Marcos Rosales10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Lyoto Machida10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 10BODY70%7 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Eryk Anders6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 16BODY17%1 of 1LEGS17%1 of 1
10 of 18
Sig.
strikes
6 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
0:00
Control
2:25
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 1
Judges · this round · Machida firstGuilherme Bravo9–10Marcos Rosales9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Lyoto Machida13 sig landed
HEAD15%2 of 14BODY62%8 of 10LEGS23%3 of 3
Eryk Anders9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 16BODY56%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 27
Sig.
strikes
9 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:16
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Machida firstGuilherme Bravo10–9Marcos Rosales9–10Tony Weeks10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Marc Goddard
Lyoto MachidaEryk Anders
Official totals — Lyoto Machida first
JudgeTotal
Guilherme Bravo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide48–47
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide47–48
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide49–46

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 — 23 scored, Lyoto Machida first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com49–46
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com48–47
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com48–47
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com48–47
MM AMania.com48–47
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com48–47
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com48–47
Youngs FanSided.com47–48
Michael Silver OC Weekly47–48
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com47–48
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com47–48
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com47–48
Rob Young CombatPress.com47–48
Steve Duncan mma.uno47–48
Tony Fagnano MMA- Today.com47–48
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com47–48
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com47–48
Matthew Wells FanSided.com47–48
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com47–48
Kendrick Johnson The Ring47–48
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com47–48
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com47–48
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br46–49

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Anders · 45%48-47 Machida · 36%49-46 Machida · 7%49-46 Anders · 6%

291 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.

Lyoto Machida

1.21takedowns / 15 min
1.21 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.83 / 15m
1.86 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.32 / 15m
65%
ACCURACY
25%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Eryk Anders

1.83takedowns / 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.

Lyoto Machida↑ +2.0pp
open 29.4%close 31.4%
Eryk Anders↓ −2.0pp
open 70.6%close 68.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Lyoto Machida opened at 29.4% and closed at 31.4% (+2.0pp), with Eryk Anders 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
Lyoto Machida22020729.4%31.4%+2.0pp
Eryk Anders-300-24770.6%68.6%−2.0pp
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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