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Thiago Silva
19-6tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record19-6
Current streak2 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W D L D
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age43
Height6' 2"
StanceOrthodox

6' 2" orthodox power striker campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 7 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 1 decision. Top 5% of Light Heavyweights: avoids 67% of the strikes thrown at him.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityBrazil
HometownSao Carlos, Sao Paulo
Fighting out ofKill Cliff FC
Height6' 2"
Reach74.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age43
Date of birthNov 12, 1982
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record19-6
Finish split7 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Thiago 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 / min3.92
Striking accuracy50%
Strikes absorbed / min2.55
Striking defence67%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.03
Takedown accuracy47%
Takedown defence70%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.70

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Light Heavyweight 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 Light Heavyweight.
Striking73
Defence84
Grappling / TD47
Cardio71
Chin46
Fight IQ64

Strike zones

Strike zones

Thiago Silva

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

HEAD55.6%ACC 38%BODY19.2%ACC 69%LEGS25.2%ACC 79%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 25.2% to the legs — +8.2 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
55.6% acc 38%−8.2 vs field
BODY
19.2% acc 69%+0.0 vs field
LEGS
25.2% acc 79%+8.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 58%CLINCH 22%GROUND 20%

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.

12 UFC fights · 412 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Thiago Silva

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

1.03takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.03 landed per 15 minutes — −1.24 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS34
1.03 / 15m−1.24 vs field
ATTEMPTS25
2.19 / 15m−3.24 vs field
ACCURACY61
47%+4pp vs field
SUB ATT45
0.70 / 15m−0.89 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.96 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 Light Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 19-6. In the UFC: 7-3-2. Thiago 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 — 12 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2013-10-09WMatt HamillDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Maia vs Shields
2013-06-08WRafael CavalcanteKO/TKOR1UFC on FUEL TV: Nogueira vs. Werdum
2012-11-10DStanislav NedkovOverturnedR3UFC Macao: Franklin vs Le
2012-04-14LAlexander GustafssonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FUEL TV: Gustafsson vs Silva
2011-01-01DBrandon VeraOverturnedR3UFC 125: Resolution
2010-01-02LRashad EvansDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 108: Evans vs Silva
2009-08-29WKeith JardineKO/TKOR1UFC 102: Couture vs Nogueira
2009-01-31LLyoto MachidaKO/TKOR1UFC 94: St-Pierre vs Penn 2
2008-05-24WAntonio MendesKO/TKOR1UFC 84: Ill Will
2007-11-17WHouston AlexanderKO/TKOR1UFC 78: Validation
2007-09-08WTomasz DrwalKO/TKOR2UFC 75: Champion vs Champion
2007-05-26WJames IrvinKO/TKOR1UFC 71: Liddell vs Jackson

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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