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The Clinch

UFC 78: Validation

17 NOV 2007 / Newark, New Jersey, USA

Co-main / Light Heavyweight / 3 rounds scheduled

Thiago Silva vs Houston Alexander

Thiago Silva, photograph by Broward Sheriff's Office, confirmed here: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/Blog/2014/02/07/UFC-fighter-Thiago-Silva-arrested-after-standoff-with-SWAT-team/5121391780703/ Thiago Silva

8-0-0 entering this bout

Age 25 · 6′2″188 cm

Won

Houston Alexander, photograph by jamie.lovelock Crop: East718 at en.wikipedia Houston Alexander “The Assassin”

2-0-0 entering this bout

Age 35 · 6′0″182.9 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
22/35
R1
2/8

Technical Knockout Punches to Head From Mount Round 1 · 3:25 Referee Dan Miragliotta

Opening line
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Closing line
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Implied favourite
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Status
No odds have been ingested. Nothing here is estimated.
Thiago Silva Enters 1-0-0 against STRIKING
Houston Alexander Enters 2-0-0 against HYBRID

Records count only bouts before this one. Opponent styles are career-aggregate and may draw on later fights.

Colour marks which fighter is which. Corner assignment is not in the corpus.

Round by round

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Thiago Silva    Houston Alexander

Bout totals

22
Sig. strikes
2
33
Total strikes
2
16
To the head
0
5
To the body
1
1
To the legs
1
4
At distance
0
3
In the clinch
2
15
On the ground
0
1
Takedowns
1
0
Knockdowns
0
0
Sub. attempts
0
1:56
Control time
0:28

The full sheet

Every measure the corpus holds for this bout, per round, per corner.

Per-round statistics for both corners
Round Corner Sig. Total Head Body Leg Dist. Clinch Ground TD KD Ctrl
R1 Thiago Silva 22/35 33/46 16/29 5/5 1/1 4/5 3/3 15/27 1/1 0 1:56
Houston Alexander 2/8 2/8 0/5 1/2 1/1 0/6 2/2 0/0 1/1 0 0:28

Who said so

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Field Value Source Rank Status
Is title fight No UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Is title fight No UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Referee Dan Miragliotta UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Referee Dan Miragliotta UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result detail Punches to Head From Mount UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result detail Punches to Head From Mount UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end round 1 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end round 1 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end time seconds 3:25 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end time seconds 3:25 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result method KO/TKO UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result method KO/TKO UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Scheduled rounds 3 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Scheduled rounds 3 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Weight class Light Heavyweight UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Weight class Light Heavyweight UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees

Photographs on this page

  • Thiago Silva - Broward Sheriff's Office, confirmed here: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/Blog/2014/02/07/UFC-fighter-Thiago-Silva-arrested-after-standoff-with-SWAT-team/5121391780703/, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped.
  • Houston Alexander - jamie.lovelock Crop: East718 at en.wikipedia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped.