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History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Dariush vs. Tsarukyan · Clay Guida vs Joaquim Silva
From the tape · 2 Dec 2023

Clay Guida vs Joaquim Silva

UFC Fight Night: Dariush vs. Tsarukyan · Austin, Texas, USA
Result

Joaquim Silva beat Clay Guida

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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.

CG
Red corner ClayGuida“The Carpenter”Team Alpha Male · Round Lake, Illinois
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JoaquimSilva“Netto BJJ”American Top Team · Anapolis, Goias
Lightweight3 rounds2 Dec 2023
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 18 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
  • 35 UFC bouts deep — 26 more than Silva.
  • Is 10 points more accurate striking than Guida.
38-22
Record
14-6
41
Age
−7 yr34
5' 7"
Height
+1″5' 8"
+1″70″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+2635
UFC bouts
9
7/1839% of wins
Finishes
+21%3/560% of wins
Team Alpha Male
Gym
American Top Team
Round Lake, Illinois
From
Anapolis, Goias
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
Clay Guida18 sig landed
HEAD33%6 of 51BODY33%6 of 6LEGS33%6 of 7
Joaquim Silva15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 30BODY0%0 landedLEGS13%2 of 2
18 of 64
Sig.
strikes
15 of 32
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:29
Control
0:39
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 4Ground 3
Judges · this round · Guida firstSal D'Amato9–10Gino Garcia9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Clay Guida14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 26BODY36%5 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Joaquim Silva15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 17BODY20%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 33
Sig.
strikes
15 of 20
2 of 7
Take-
downs
1 of 1
3:19
Control
0:31
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 11Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 8Ground 0
Judges · this round · Guida firstSal D'Amato10–9Gino Garcia10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Clay Guida11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 26BODY27%3 of 7LEGS36%4 of 4
Joaquim Silva16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 25BODY38%6 of 12LEGS12%2 of 2
11 of 37
Sig.
strikes
16 of 39
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:35
Control
1:25
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 8Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Guida firstSal D'Amato9–10Gino Garcia9–10Chris Lee9–10

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 · Mark Smith
Clay GuidaJoaquim Silva
Official totals — Clay Guida first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Gino Garcia28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29

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 — 18 scored, Clay Guida first · unofficial

Bloody Elbow.com27–30
Combat Press.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Val Dewar Cageside Press28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Nick Baldwin theScore28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Jake Noecker Cageside Press28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Chris De Santiago MiddleEasy.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Silva · 47%30-27 Silva · 36%29-28 Guida · 13%29-27 Silva · 2%30-28 Guida · 2%

53 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.

Clay Guida

3.10takedowns / 15 min
3.10 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.34 / 15m
8.86 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.68 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
50%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Joaquim Silva

0.34takedowns / 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.

Clay Guida↓ −9.1pp
open 35.5%close 26.4%
Joaquim Silva↑ +9.1pp
open 64.5%close 73.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Clay Guida opened at 35.5% and closed at 26.4% (−9.1pp), with Joaquim 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
Clay Guida16326235.5%26.4%−9.1pp
Joaquim Silva-225-33764.5%73.6%+9.1pp
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% · dated 2023-12-03 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · 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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