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Events · UFC Fight Night: Lopes vs. Silva · Claudio Puelles vs Joaquim Silva
From the tape · 13 Sep 2025

Claudio Puelles vs Joaquim Silva

UFC Fight Night: Lopes vs. Silva · San Antonio, Texas, USA
Result

Joaquim Silva beat Claudio Puelles

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Kerry Hatley

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 ClaudioPuelles“Prince of Peru”Kill Cliff FC · Molina
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JoaquimSilva“Netto BJJ”American Top Team · Anapolis, Goias
Lightweight3 rounds13 Sep 2025
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Lands 1.9 more significant strikes a minute than Puelles.
13-5
Record
14-6
−7 yr29
Age
36
+2″5' 10"
Height
5' 8"
+3″72″
Reach
69″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
8
UFC bouts
+311
+10%3/560% of wins
Finishes
3/650% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
American Top Team
Molina
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
Claudio Puelles3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Joaquim Silva0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 4 thrown

3 of 8
Sig.
strikes
0 of 4
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:22
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Puelles firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9Jesse Lorenty10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Claudio Puelles6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 28BODY50%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Joaquim Silva11 sig landed
HEAD18%2 of 18BODY45%5 of 7LEGS36%4 of 4
6 of 31
Sig.
strikes
11 of 29
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:55
Control
0:18
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Puelles firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee10–9Jesse Lorenty9–10
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD SilvaEnded 5:00
Claudio Puelles12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 20BODY33%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Joaquim Silva14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 28BODY29%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
12 of 24
Sig.
strikes
14 of 33
1 of 8
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:08
Control
0:45
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 3Ground 3
Judges · this round · Puelles firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10Jesse Lorenty9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Kerry Hatley
Claudio PuellesJoaquim Silva
Official totals — Claudio Puelles first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Jesse Lorenty28–29

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 — 15 scored, Claudio Puelles first · unofficial

MM A Latinoamerica28–29
Drake Riggs Uncrowned28–29
Erich Richter NY Post28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Jake Noecker Home of Fight28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Val Dewar Cageside Press28–29
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Mike Pendleton Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Silva · 76%29-28 Puelles · 21%29-27 Puelles · 3%

33 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.

Claudio Puelles

3.29takedowns / 15 min
3.29 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.34 / 15m
9.97 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.68 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
50%
1.00 / 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.

Claudio Puelles↑ +4.8pp
open 49.0%close 53.8%
Joaquim Silva↓ −4.8pp
open 51.0%close 46.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Claudio Puelles opened at 49.0% and closed at 53.8% (+4.8pp), 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
Claudio Puelles-110-13049.0%53.8%+4.8pp
Joaquim Silva-12010651.0%46.2%−4.8pp
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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