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Events · UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Magomedov · Ariane da Silva vs Melissa Gatto
From the tape · 1 Jul 2023

Ariane da Silva vs Melissa Gatto

UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Magomedov · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Ariane da Silva beat Melissa Gatto

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's FlyweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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.

AS
Red corner Ariane daSilva
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MelissaGattoMSP · Campinas, Sao Paulo
Women's Flyweight3 rounds1 Jul 2023
The story going in
  • 9 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Gatto.
  • Averages 1.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Silva.
17-11
Record
9-3-2
29
Age
−2 yr27
+1″5' 6"
Height
5' 5"
67″
Reach
+2″69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+69
UFC bouts
3
1/425% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
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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
Ariane da Silva16 sig landed
HEAD19%3 of 30BODY56%9 of 15LEGS25%4 of 4
Melissa Gatto28 sig landed
HEAD46%13 of 31BODY36%10 of 15LEGS18%5 of 7
16 of 49
Sig.
strikes
28 of 53
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:17
Distance 14Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Silva firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Ariane da Silva26 sig landed
HEAD38%10 of 27BODY46%12 of 14LEGS15%4 of 5
Melissa Gatto33 sig landed
HEAD33%11 of 37BODY52%17 of 21LEGS15%5 of 8
26 of 46
Sig.
strikes
33 of 66
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:12
Control
2:16
Distance 18Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 10Ground 0
Judges · this round · Silva firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ariane da Silva24 sig landed
HEAD62%15 of 44BODY25%6 of 7LEGS12%3 of 3
Melissa Gatto24 sig landed
HEAD62%15 of 49BODY29%7 of 14LEGS8%2 of 4
24 of 54
Sig.
strikes
24 of 67
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:35
Control
0:24
Distance 21Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Silva firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9

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 · Chris Tognoni
Ariane da SilvaMelissa Gatto
Official totals — Ariane da Silva first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 4 scored, Ariane da Silva first · unofficial

Silva Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Gatto · 40%29-28 da Silva · 35%30-27 da Silva · 14%30-27 Gatto · 8%

78 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.

Ariane da Silva

0.47takedowns / 15 min
0.47 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.77 / 15m
1.24 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.56 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
27%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Melissa Gatto

1.77takedowns / 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 (3.58 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Flyweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Ariane da Silva vs Melissa Gatto.

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