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Aljamain Sterling vs Jean SilvaFantasy matchup — not a booked fight

#4 at Featherweight · #5 at Featherweight
Not a booked fightFANTASY MATCHUP — this fight is not booked. What our two blind models would say if it were.
Aljamain Sterling
UFC 18-5 · Pro 26-5
#4 at Featherweight
VS
Jean Silva
pro record withheld
#5 at Featherweight

If they fought

A statistical read on a fight that does not exist — no market, no booking, nothing to grade it against.

Aljamain Sterling 61% Jean Silva 39%

Run as an unbooked fight, the numbers favour Aljamain Sterling at 61% — a lean, not a conviction.

Our two reads agree, and closely. Both land on Aljamain Sterling — 61% on the first, 53% on the second, 8 points apart.

The same read puts the chance it goes the full distance at 56%.

Hypothetical run at Featherweight; Aljamain Sterling fought mainly at Bantamweight.

KO/TKO
37%
Submission
11%
Decision
52%
These figures come from the same statistical reads we run on real cards, with the betting market removed — there is no market on a fight nobody has booked. Nothing here is timestamped against a result, nothing here is graded, and none of it counts towards our public record. It is a thought experiment with real numbers behind it.

Tale of the tape

Aljamain Sterling vs Jean Silva — the facts, side by side. ▲ marks the reach edge.

UFC 18-5UFC record—
26-5Pro recordWithheld — The official UFC results contradict the career record we were given, so we publish none rather than a wrong one.
Funk MasterNicknameWhite Bear
5' 7"Height5' 7"
71"▲Reach69"
OrthodoxStanceOrthodox
37Age29
145 lbs.Weight145 lbs.
United StatesNationalityBrazil
Uniondale, New York, United StatesBorn inFoz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil
Uniondale, New York, United StatesFights out ofSão Paulo, Brazil
Serra-Longo Fight TeamCamp—
Vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves. Where a professional record is marked withheld, the official results contradict the one the register gave us and we publish neither.

Stat-by-stat

Aljamain Sterling (left) vs Jean Silva (right) — career striking & grappling rates. The fighter ahead on each row is highlighted in their corner colour.

Strikes landed / min
4.26
vs
4.55
Striking accuracy
52%
vs
51%
Strikes absorbed / min
2.15
vs
4.29
Striking defence
59%
vs
54%
Takedowns / 15 min
2.54
vs
1.19
Takedown accuracy
32%
vs
58%
Takedown defence
44%
vs
79%
Sub attempts / 15 min
0.6
vs
0.7
Career averages from public UFC statistics. On “strikes absorbed / min”, fewer is better.

Fights that have happened between them

None.

Aljamain Sterling and Jean Silva have never met in the UFC.

Every matchup on this page is a pairing that has never happened. That is how they are chosen: if these two had already met in the Octagon, there would be a real result to read instead, and this page would not exist.

The real fighters

Everything above is hypothetical. These are not.

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