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Events · UFC Fight Night: Tuivasa vs. Tybura · Josh Culibao vs Danny Silva
From the tape · 16 Mar 2024

Josh Culibao vs Danny Silva

UFC Fight Night: Tuivasa vs. Tybura · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Danny Silva beat Josh Culibao

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain 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.

Red corner JoshCulibao“Kuya”Igor MMA · Sydney, New South Wales
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DannySilva“El Puma”Santa Ana, California
Featherweight3 rounds16 Mar 2024
11-4-1
Record
11-2
29
Age
−2 yr27
+3″5' 10"
Height
5' 7"
+4″73″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
Sydney, New South Wales
From
Santa Ana, California
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Josh Culibao32 sig landed
HEAD72%23 of 69BODY22%7 of 9LEGS6%2 of 2
Danny Silva11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 22BODY36%4 of 5LEGS9%1 of 1
32 of 80
Sig.
strikes
11 of 28
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
1:25
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 32Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Josh Culibao27 sig landed
HEAD63%17 of 44BODY22%6 of 7LEGS15%4 of 4
Danny Silva11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 25BODY0%0 of 3LEGS9%1 of 2
27 of 55
Sig.
strikes
11 of 30
0 of 2
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:03
Control
1:59
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Josh Culibao28 sig landed
HEAD68%19 of 55BODY25%7 of 10LEGS7%2 of 2
Danny Silva23 sig landed
HEAD52%12 of 35BODY30%7 of 10LEGS17%4 of 4
28 of 67
Sig.
strikes
23 of 49
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
2:04
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 27Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Decision - Split

Referee · Mark Smith
Official totals — Josh Culibao first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide28–29

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

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.

Josh Culibao

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.06 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
5.72 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
36%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Danny Silva

2.06takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Josh Culibao↑ +2.1pp
open 61.6%close 63.7%
Danny Silva↓ −2.1pp
open 38.4%close 36.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Josh Culibao opened at 61.6% and closed at 63.7% (+2.1pp), with Danny 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
Josh Culibao-180-19961.6%63.7%+2.1pp
Danny Silva15016438.4%36.3%−2.1pp
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% · 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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