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Events · UFC Fight Night: Assuncao vs. Moraes 2 · Thiago Alves vs Max Griffin
From the tape · 2 Feb 2019

Thiago Alves vs Max Griffin

UFC Fight Night: Assuncao vs. Moraes 2 · Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil
Result

Thiago Alves beat Max Griffin

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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.

TA
Red corner ThiagoAlves“Pitbull”American Top Team · Fortaleza, Ceara
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MaxGriffin“Pain”MMA Gold Fight Team · Sacramento, California
Welterweight3 rounds2 Feb 2019
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 9 of 14 UFC wins.
23-15
Record
20-13
35
Age
−2 yr33
5' 9"
Height
+2″5' 11"
70″
Reach
+6″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1924
UFC bouts
5
9/1464% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
MMA Gold Fight Team
Fortaleza, Ceara
From
Sacramento, California
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Griffin
Thiago Alves29 sig landed
HEAD38%11 of 32BODY14%4 of 5LEGS48%14 of 16
Max Griffin57 sig landed
HEAD67%38 of 69BODY33%19 of 23LEGS0%0 landed
29 of 53
Sig.
strikes
57 of 92
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:22
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 28Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 38Clinch 19Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Thiago Alves45 sig landed
HEAD67%30 of 48BODY20%9 of 11LEGS13%6 of 6
Max Griffin44 sig landed
HEAD77%34 of 39BODY23%10 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
45 of 65
Sig.
strikes
44 of 49
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:16
Control
0:36
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 33Clinch 12Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 11Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Thiago Alves9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 10BODY33%3 of 5LEGS22%2 of 2
Max Griffin11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 7BODY55%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 17
Sig.
strikes
11 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:57
Control
2:42
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 6Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Split Decision

Referee · Jason Herzog
Official totals — Thiago Alves first
JudgeTotal
Guilherme Bravo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide29–28
Mike Bell1.9 avg spread · 37% wide28–29
Hallison Pontes2.0 avg spread · 40% wide29–28

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 18 scored, Thiago Alves first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Adam Martin Sherdog.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Mike Straus MMAJA28–29
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–29
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport28–29
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com28–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Nolan King FloCombat28–29
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com27–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Griffin · 66%29-27 Griffin · 16%29-28 Alves · 10%28-27 Griffin · 2%

96 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.

Thiago Alves

0.71takedowns / 15 min
0.71 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.44 / 15m
1.18 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.51 / 15m
60%
ACCURACY
41%
0.30 / 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.

Thiago Alves↑ +2.1pp
open 34.7%close 36.8%
Max Griffin↓ −2.1pp
open 65.3%close 63.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Thiago Alves opened at 34.7% and closed at 36.8% (+2.1pp), 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
Thiago Alves17016234.7%36.8%+2.1pp
Max Griffin-230-19065.3%63.2%−2.1pp
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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