What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.
First UFC title fight for both.
First five-round fight for both.
Both fighters go the distance: at least two thirds of their UFC wins came on the scorecards. When two decision winners meet, 31% of UFC fights end inside the distance (73 of 236 fights). Across every UFC fight it is 53%.
Silva comes in on an 8-fight UFC winning run. A fighter on a run of 6 or more against an opponent on a shorter one wins 64% of the time (205 of 320 fights).
Silva is 4 years younger. With an age gap of 4 to 5 years, the younger fighter wins 56% of UFC fights (927 of 1,649 fights).
Counted from every UFC fight on record before this bout. These are history, not our model’s read.
Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.
5 rounds of tape
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.
The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.
Unanimous Decision
| Judge | Total |
|---|---|
| Michael Bell | 48–47 |
| Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide | 49–46 |
| Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide | 48–47 |
Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.
Media cards — 14 scored, Natalia Silva first · unofficial
Fan vote · unofficial
58 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.
Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.
Natalia Silva
Wang Cong
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. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (3.42 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.
What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.
From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Natalia Silva's implied chance moved up from 65% to 66% (+0.5pp).
Our published call had Natalia Silva at 72.0%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 65.5% — our number sat 6.5pp above the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.
| Series | Open | Low | High | Last capture | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natalia Silva — sportsbook consensus | 64.7% | 64.3% | 65.3% | 64.6% | −0.1pp |
| Wang Cong — sportsbook consensus | 35.3% | 34.7% | 35.7% | 35.4% | +0.1pp |
| Natalia Silva — Polymarket | 65.0% | 63.5% | 66.5% | 65.5% | +0.5pp |
| Wang Cong — Polymarket | 35.0% | 33.5% | 36.5% | 34.5% | −0.5pp |