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Lerone Murphy vs Jean SilvaFantasy matchup — not a booked fight

#3 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.
UFC 9-1 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 17-1-1
#3 at Featherweight
VS
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.

Lerone Murphy 53% Jean Silva 47%

Run as an unbooked fight, this one splits our two reads — they do not name the same winner, so there is no lean here to give you.

Our two reads disagree. One leans Lerone Murphy at 53%; the other leans Jean Silva at 57%. When they split like this there is no read worth having — treat it as a coin toss.

The same read puts the chance it goes the full distance at 53%.

KO/TKO
39%
Submission
11%
Decision
49%
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

Lerone Murphy vs Jean Silva — the facts, side by side. ▲ marks the reach edge.

UFC 9-1 (1 draw/NC)UFC record—
17-1-1Pro recordWithheld — The official UFC results contradict the career record we were given, so we publish none rather than a wrong one.
The MiracleNicknameWhite Bear
5' 9"Height5' 7"
73"▲Reach69"
OrthodoxStanceOrthodox
35Age29
145 lbs.Weight145 lbs.
—NationalityBrazil
Manchester, EnglandBorn inFoz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil
Manchester, EnglandFights out ofSão Paulo, Brazil
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

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

Strikes landed / min
4.34
vs
4.55
Striking accuracy
51%
vs
51%
Strikes absorbed / min
2.65
vs
4.29
Striking defence
60%
vs
54%
Takedowns / 15 min
1.2
vs
1.19
Takedown accuracy
54%
vs
58%
Takedown defence
44%
vs
79%
Sub attempts / 15 min
0.5
vs
0.7
Career averages from public UFC statistics. On “strikes absorbed / min”, fewer is better.

Fights that have happened between them

None.

Lerone Murphy 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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