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Wanderlei Silva
35-13-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record35-13-1
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L W L W
DivisionMiddleweight
Age50
Height5' 11"
StanceOrthodox

5' 11" orthodox power striker campaigning at Middleweight. 5 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 1 decision. Top 15% of Middleweights: avoids 60% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameThe Axe Murderer
NationalityBrazil
HometownCuritiba, Parana
Fighting out ofWand Fight Team
Height5' 11"
Reach74.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age50
Date of birthJul 03, 1976
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record35-13-1
Finish split5 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Wanderlei 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 / min2.79
Striking accuracy40%
Strikes absorbed / min2.19
Striking defence60%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.97
Takedown accuracy53%
Takedown defence62%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.60

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.
Striking43
Defence81
Grappling / TD44
Cardio39
Chin22
Fight IQ46

Strike zones

Strike zones

Wanderlei Silva

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

HEAD70.2%ACC 28%BODY13.2%ACC 75%LEGS16.6%ACC 68%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 70.2% upstairs — +6.6 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
70.2% acc 28%+6.6 vs field
BODY
13.2% acc 75%−7.4 vs field
LEGS
16.6% acc 68%+0.7 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 70%CLINCH 20%GROUND 10%

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 · 325 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Wanderlei Silva

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

0.97takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 0.97 landed per 15 minutes — −1.30 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS26
0.97 / 15m−1.30 vs field
ATTEMPTS19
1.83 / 15m−3.49 vs field
ACCURACY72
53%+6pp vs field
SUB ATT35
0.60 / 15m−0.96 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: 35-13-1. In the UFC: 5-7. Wanderlei 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.

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