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History · 2020 · UFC 253: Adesanya vs. Costa · Brad Riddell vs Alex Da Silva
From the tape · 26 Sep 2020

Brad Riddell vs Alex Da Silva

UFC 253: Adesanya vs. Costa · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Brad Riddell beat Alex Da Silva

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Lukasz Bosacki

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.

BR
Red corner BradRiddell“Quake”City Kickboxing · Auckland
VSOn the tape
AS
Blue corner Alex DaSilva“Leko”Kalmar Fightzone · Brazil
Lightweight3 rounds26 Sep 2020
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 13 points more takedown defence than Riddell.
  • Lands 2.6 more significant strikes a minute than Silva.
10-4
Record
21-4
28
Age
−4 yr24
5' 7"
Height
+1″5' 8"
71″
Reach
+2″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
2
0/20% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
City Kickboxing
Gym
Kalmar Fightzone
Auckland
From
Brazil
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 action1 sub attempt
Brad Riddell7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 15BODY29%2 of 2LEGS14%1 of 1
Alex Da Silva13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 13BODY23%3 of 3LEGS31%4 of 4
7 of 18
Sig.
strikes
13 of 20
0 of 1
Take-
downs
3 of 3
0:18
Control
3:22
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 1
Judges · this round · Riddell firstMichael Bell9–10Ahmed Korchi9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Brad Riddell25 sig landed
HEAD64%16 of 49BODY24%6 of 7LEGS12%3 of 3
Alex Da Silva18 sig landed
HEAD56%10 of 34BODY22%4 of 5LEGS22%4 of 4
25 of 59
Sig.
strikes
18 of 43
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:29
Control
1:15
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 22Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Riddell firstMichael Bell10–9Ahmed Korchi10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Brad Riddell35 sig landed
HEAD77%27 of 78BODY14%5 of 7LEGS9%3 of 4
Alex Da Silva23 sig landed
HEAD83%19 of 44BODY13%3 of 4LEGS4%1 of 1
35 of 89
Sig.
strikes
23 of 49
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:37
Control
0:40
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 32Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Riddell firstMichael Bell10–9Ahmed Korchi10–9Clemens Werner10–9

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 · Lukasz Bosacki
Brad RiddellAlex Da Silva
Official totals — Brad Riddell first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Ahmed Korchi29–28
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide29–28

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 — 22 scored, Brad Riddell first · unofficial

Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Shakiel Mahjouri Fightful.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com29–28
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Nick Baldwin theScore29–28
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl29–28
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com29–28
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Phil Murphy ESPN29–28
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press29–28
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Riddell · 91%29-28 da Silva · 6%29-27 Riddell · 3%

35 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.

Brad Riddell

1.77takedowns / 15 min
1.77 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.97 / 15m
4.92 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.58 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
43%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Alex Da Silva

1.97takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Brad Riddell↑ +5.4pp
open 68.3%close 73.7%
Alex Da Silva↓ −5.4pp
open 31.7%close 26.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Brad Riddell opened at 68.3% and closed at 73.7% (+5.4pp), with Alex Da 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
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Brad Riddell-240-33668.3%73.7%+5.4pp
Alex Da Silva20526431.7%26.3%−5.4pp
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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