Round 1
20 of 44
Sig.
strikes
strikes
6 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 18Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstCharlie Keech10–9Albert Shen10–9
From the tape · 9 Feb 2019
Israel Adesanya vs Anderson Silva
UFC 234: Adesanya vs. Silva · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Result
Israel Adesanya beat Anderson Silva
MiddleweightMainReferee · Herb Dean
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.
VSOn the tape
AS
The story going in
- Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
- Has finished 14 of 17 UFC wins.
- Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
- 22 UFC bouts deep — 18 more than Adesanya.
24-6
Record
34-11
−14 yr29
Age
43
+2″6' 4"
Height
6' 2"
+3″80″
Reach
77″
Switch
Stance
Southpaw
4
UFC bouts
+1822
2/450% of wins
Finishes
+32%14/1782% of wins
Lagos
From
Curitiba, Parana
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 2
20 of 39
Sig.
strikes
strikes
20 of 35
0 of 0
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 15Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstCharlie Keech10–9Albert Shen10–9
Round 3Ended 5:00
25 of 49
Sig.
strikes
strikes
5 of 16
0 of 0
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstCharlie Keech10–9Albert Shen10–9
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 · Herb Dean
Israel AdesanyaAnderson Silva
| Judge | Total |
|---|---|
| Charlie Keech2.0 avg spread · 43% wide | 30–27 |
| Albert Shen2.4 avg spread · 61% wide | 30–27 |
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 — 25 scored, Israel Adesanya first · unofficial
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com30–27
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily30–27
Mike Straus MMAJA30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
Keith Shillan FanSided.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com30–27
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Adam Martin Sherdog.com29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com29–28
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28
Nolan King FloCombat29–28
Fan vote · unofficial
29-28 Adesanya · 62%30-27 Adesanya · 24%29-28 Silva · 5%30-27 Silva · 2%
315 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.
Israel Adesanya
0.05 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.50 / 15m
0.56 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.65 / 15m
9%
ACCURACY
77%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m
76%
TD DEFENCE
69%
Anderson Silva
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.
Israel Adesanya↑ +5.8pp
open 75.2%close 81.0%
Anderson Silva↓ −5.8pp
open 24.8%close 19.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)
Israel Adesanya opened at 75.2% and closed at 81.0% (+5.8pp), with Anderson 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
| Corner | Open (US) | Close (US) | Open % | Close % | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Israel Adesanya | -400 | -535 | 75.2% | 81.0% | +5.8pp |
| Anderson Silva | 280 | 407 | 24.8% | 19.0% | −5.8pp |
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.