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Anderson Silva
34-11tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Anderson Silva’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

Pro record34-11
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W L
DivisionMiddleweight
Age51
Height6' 2"
StanceSouthpaw

6' 2" southpaw power striker campaigning at Middleweight. 17 UFC wins — 11 KO/TKO, 3 submission, 3 decision. Top 8% of Middleweights: connects with 61% of his significant strikes and completes 77% of his takedown attempts.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.

NicknameThe Spider
NationalityBrazil
HometownCuritiba, Parana
Fighting out ofpending
Height6' 2"
Reach77.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age51
Date of birthApr 14, 1975
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record34-11
Finish split17 UFC wins — 11 KO/TKO, 3 submission, 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Anderson Silva’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min3.05
Striking accuracy61%
Strikes absorbed / min2.05
Striking defence60%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.50
Takedown accuracy77%
Takedown defence69%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.80

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Middleweight.
Striking77
Defence82
Grappling / TD49
Cardio38
Chin47
Fight IQ59

Strike zones

Strike zones

Anderson Silva

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD53.9%ACC 48%BODY21.8%ACC 78%LEGS24.3%ACC 84%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 24.3% to the legs — +8.4 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
53.9% acc 48%−9.7 vs field
BODY
21.8% acc 78%+1.2 vs field
LEGS
24.3% acc 84%+8.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 68%CLINCH 15%GROUND 17%

Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

25 UFC fights · 832 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Anderson Silva

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

0.50takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.50 takedowns and 0.80 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS12
0.50 / 15m−1.77 vs field
ATTEMPTS5
0.65 / 15m−4.67 vs field
ACCURACY87
77%+30pp vs field
SUB ATT49
0.80 / 15m−0.76 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

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.

Ranked in Middleweight

Recent form

Pro record: 34-11. In the UFC: 17-7-1. Anderson Silva’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.

Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.

Full UFC career — 25 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2020-10-31LUriah HallKO/TKOR4UFC Fight Night: Hall vs. Silva
2019-05-11LJared CannonierKO/TKOR1UFC 237: Namajunas vs. Andrade
2019-02-09LIsrael AdesanyaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 234: Adesanya vs. Silva
2017-02-11WDerek BrunsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 208: Holm vs. De Randamie
2016-07-09LDaniel CormierDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 200: Tate vs Nunes
2016-02-27LMichael BispingDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Silva vs Bisping
2015-01-31DNick DiazOverturnedR5UFC 183: Silva vs Diaz
2013-12-28LChris WeidmanKO/TKOR2UFC 168: Weidman vs Silva 2
2013-07-06LChris WeidmanKO/TKOR2UFC 162: Silva vs Weidman
2012-10-13WStephan BonnarKO/TKOR1UFC 153: Silva vs Bonnar
2012-07-07WChael SonnenKO/TKOR2UFC 148: Silva vs Sonnen 2
2011-08-27WYushin OkamiKO/TKOR2UFC 134: Silva vs Okami
2011-02-05WVitor BelfortKO/TKOR1UFC 126: Silva vs Belfort
2010-08-07WChael SonnenSubmissionR5UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen
2010-04-10WDemian MaiaDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 112: Invincible
2009-08-08WForrest GriffinKO/TKOR1UFC 101: Declaration
2009-04-18WThales LeitesDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 97: Redemption
2008-10-25WPatrick CoteKO/TKOR3UFC 90: Silva vs Cote
2008-07-19WJames IrvinKO/TKOR1UFC: Silva vs Irvin
2008-03-01WDan HendersonSubmissionR2UFC 82: Pride of a Champion
2007-10-20WRich FranklinKO/TKOR2UFC 77: Hostile Territory
2007-07-07WNate MarquardtKO/TKOR1UFC 73: Stacked
2007-02-03WTravis LutterSubmissionR2UFC 67: All or Nothing
2006-10-14WRich FranklinKO/TKOR1UFC 64: Unstoppable
2006-06-28WChris LebenKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night 5

Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.

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