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History · 2019 · UFC 237: Namajunas vs. Andrade · Thiago Alves vs Laureano Staropoli
From the tape · 11 May 2019

Thiago Alves vs Laureano Staropoli

UFC 237: Namajunas vs. Andrade · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Result

Laureano Staropoli beat Thiago Alves

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Osiris Maia

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
LS
Blue corner LaureanoStaropoli“Pepi”Chute Boxe Diego Lima · La Plata, Buenos Aires
Welterweight3 rounds11 May 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 9 of 15 UFC wins.
  • 25 UFC bouts deep — 24 more than Staropoli.
23-15
Record
9-5
35
Age
−9 yr26
5' 9"
Height
+4″6' 1"
70″
Reach
+1″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+2425
UFC bouts
1
9/1560% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Chute Boxe Diego Lima
Fortaleza, Ceara
From
La Plata, Buenos Aires
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
Thiago Alves10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 15BODY10%1 of 2LEGS50%5 of 7
Laureano Staropoli13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 41BODY31%4 of 10LEGS15%2 of 4
10 of 24
Sig.
strikes
13 of 55
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Alves firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Marcelo Vilhena9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Thiago Alves19 sig landed
HEAD37%7 of 42BODY16%3 of 6LEGS47%9 of 11
Laureano Staropoli19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 57BODY32%6 of 11LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 59
Sig.
strikes
19 of 68
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:22
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Alves firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Marcelo Vilhena9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Thiago Alves29 sig landed
HEAD55%16 of 50BODY3%1 of 2LEGS41%12 of 12
Laureano Staropoli22 sig landed
HEAD77%17 of 69BODY23%5 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
29 of 64
Sig.
strikes
22 of 79
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:27
Control
0:10
Distance 26Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Alves firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Marcelo Vilhena9–10

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 · Osiris Maia
Thiago AlvesLaureano Staropoli
Official totals — Thiago Alves first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Marcelo Vilhena27–30

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 — 12 scored, Thiago Alves first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Staropoli · 50%29-28 Staropoli · 29%29-28 Alves · 12%30-28 Staropoli · 6%29-27 Staropoli · 3%

34 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
0.83 / 15m
1.18 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.19 / 15m
60%
ACCURACY
26%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Laureano Staropoli

0.83takedowns / 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 (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.

Thiago Alves↓ −8.2pp
open 61.4%close 53.2%
Laureano Staropoli↑ +8.2pp
open 38.6%close 46.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Thiago Alves opened at 61.4% and closed at 53.2% (−8.2pp), with Laureano Staropoli 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 Alves-185-12661.4%53.2%−8.2pp
Laureano Staropoli14510438.6%46.8%+8.2pp
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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