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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Rivera vs. Moraes · Gian Villante vs Sam Alvey
From the tape · 1 Jun 2018

Gian Villante vs Sam Alvey

UFC Fight Night: Rivera vs. Moraes · Utica, New York, USA
Result

Sam Alvey beat Gian Villante

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain 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.

GV
Red corner GianVillanteBellmore Kickboxing Academy · Bellmore, New York
VSOn the tape
SA
Blue corner SamAlvey“Smile'N”Team Quest · Waterford, Wisconsin
Light Heavyweight3 rounds1 Jun 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Lands 1.1 more significant strikes a minute than Alvey.
17-14
Record
33-18-1
32
Age
32
+1″6' 3"
Height
6' 2"
+1″76″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
12
UFC bouts
+214
4/667% of wins
Finishes
6/967% of wins
Bellmore Kickboxing Academy
Gym
Team Quest
Bellmore, New York
From
Waterford, Wisconsin
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⚡ 1 KD Alvey
Gian Villante16 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 19BODY44%7 of 12LEGS56%9 of 10
Sam Alvey18 sig landed
HEAD78%14 of 35BODY6%1 of 1LEGS17%3 of 4
16 of 41
Sig.
strikes
18 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Villante firstEric Colón9–10Tim Corrado9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Gian Villante18 sig landed
HEAD56%10 of 27BODY17%3 of 7LEGS28%5 of 5
Sam Alvey21 sig landed
HEAD67%14 of 34BODY5%1 of 1LEGS29%6 of 6
18 of 39
Sig.
strikes
21 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Villante firstEric Colón9–10Tim Corrado10–9Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Gian Villante16 sig landed
HEAD62%10 of 45BODY12%2 of 4LEGS25%4 of 4
Sam Alvey14 sig landed
HEAD86%12 of 35BODY0%0 of 2LEGS14%2 of 4
16 of 53
Sig.
strikes
14 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:06
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Villante firstEric Colón10–9Tim Corrado10–9Dave 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

Split Decision

Referee · Kevin MacDonald
Gian VillanteSam Alvey
Official totals — Gian Villante first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Tim Corrado29–28
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% 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, Gian Villante first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport28–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
Chris Connor The Fight City28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com28–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Villante · 38%29-28 Alvey · 36%30-27 Alvey · 8%

50 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.

Gian Villante

0.45takedowns / 15 min
0.45 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.06 / 15m
1.96 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.43 / 15m
23%
ACCURACY
14%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Sam Alvey

0.06takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Gian Villante↑ +4.6pp
open 37.9%close 42.5%
Sam Alvey↓ −4.6pp
open 62.1%close 57.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Gian Villante opened at 37.9% and closed at 42.5% (+4.6pp), with Sam Alvey 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
Gian Villante15012737.9%42.5%+4.6pp
Sam Alvey-190-14762.1%57.5%−4.6pp
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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