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Events · UFC Fight Night: Acosta vs Lewis · Arnold Allen vs Jean Silva
Red corner ArnoldAllen“Almighty”Felixstowe, Suffolk
VSSettled
Blue corner JeanSilva“White Bear”Florianopolis, Santa Catarina
Featherweight Bout3 rounds24 Jan 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Silva’s 5 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • 13 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Silva.
  • Lands 1.3 more significant strikes a minute than Allen.
21-4
Record
19-12-3
32
Age
−3 yr29
+1″5' 8"
Height
5' 7"
+1″70″
Reach
69″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+713
UFC bouts
6
4/1136% of wins
Finishes
+64%5/5100% of wins
Felixstowe, Suffolk
From
Florianopolis, Santa Catarina
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.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Jean Silva
54.0% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 47%
Vs the market−12.2pp
Market had our pick at66%
The fight
Jean Silva
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Jean Silva at 54.0% and Jean Silva won. The method call landed too.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

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 action
Arnold Allen22 sig landed
HEAD55%12 of 33BODY18%4 of 6LEGS27%6 of 6
Jean Silva16 sig landed
HEAD56%9 of 23BODY44%7 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
22 of 45
Sig.
strikes
16 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Arnold Allen18 sig landed
HEAD83%15 of 36BODY17%3 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Jean Silva32 sig landed
HEAD59%19 of 46BODY19%6 of 6LEGS22%7 of 8
18 of 43
Sig.
strikes
32 of 60
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:12
Control
0:02
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 5Ground 0
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Arnold Allen16 sig landed
HEAD62%10 of 17BODY25%4 of 9LEGS12%2 of 2
Jean Silva26 sig landed
HEAD58%15 of 34BODY35%9 of 9LEGS8%2 of 2
16 of 28
Sig.
strikes
26 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 5
0:42
Control
0:30
Distance 14Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 1Ground 0

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

Every judge’s round, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Chris Tognoni
Arnold AllenJean Silva
Official card — Arnold Allen first
JudgeR1R2R3Total
Michael Bell10–99–109–1028–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide10–99–109–1028–29
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide9–109–109–1027–30

Media cards — 16 scored, Arnold Allen first · unofficial

Dayne Fox Sherdog.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Jake Noecker Home of Fight27–30
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection27–30
Nick Baldwin theScore28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Chris Connor The Fight City28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Drake Riggs Uncrowned28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
MM A Latinoamerica28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Silva · 53%29-28 Allen · 26%30-27 Silva · 19%30-27 Allen · 1%

339 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.

Still to come on this page

Named rather than hidden. It is built from data already on disk and lands in the next pass of this build-out.

The market story coming in this build-out

What the price did in the week before the cage door shut, with the moment our pick was frozen marked on it. Where we captured no price history for a bout, this panel will say so rather than draw a line that was never there.

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