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Antonio Silva

UFC 3-7 (1 draw/NC)Pro 19-12-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Antonio Silva’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

UFC recordUFC 3-7 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2012-05-26 · last fight 2016-09-24
Pro record19-12-1
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W L
DivisionHeavyweight
Age47
Height6' 4"
StanceOrthodox

6' 4" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Heavyweight. 3 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. 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 social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

NicknameBigfoot
NationalityBrazil
Born inBrasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil Wikipedia
Fights out ofCampina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil Wikipedia
CampAmerican Top Team
Height6' 4"
Reach82"
StanceOrthodox
Age47
Date of birthSep 14, 1979
Weight264 lbs.
Pro record19-12-1
UFC recordUFC 3-7 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2012-05-26 · last fight 2016-09-24
Finish split3 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Antonio Silva has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Antonio Silva in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Heavyweight176 weeks on the tables#1–5 · from the table of 4 February 2013No table on record · May 2013 – May 2013#1–5 · from the table of 21 May 2013#6–10 · from the table of 30 December 2013#1–5 · from the table of 7 January 2014#6–10 · from the table of 17 January 2014#1–5 · from the table of 3 February 2014#6–10 · from the table of 15 September 2014#11–15 · from the table of 24 February 2015No table on record · Mar 2016 – Apr 2016#11–15 · from the table of 12 April 2016#11–15 · from the table of 9 August 2016No table on record · Oct 2016 – Nov 2016First rankedLast ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#4Heavyweight · Feb 2013
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–578on the published tables, title reigns aside
CurrentUnrankedsince Nov 2016

Official UFC.com official rankings, 2013–present · rankings of 12 October 2026

A published rank holds until the next table changes it, so a band runs from the table that set it to the table that ended it — that is how a ranking works, and it is why an unbroken reign is drawn unbroken. Nothing is interpolated: the band is the last published STATUS, never a rank in between, and the hatched stretches are weeks the archive holds no table for at all. The champion band sits above #1 because a belt is not a rank. The three pound-for-pound tables — the combined one to January 2020, then the Men's and Women's ones — share a row, because they are one standing under three names.

Career rates facts

Career averages over Antonio 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 / min2.89
Striking accuracy45%
Strikes absorbed / min3.09
Striking defence50%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.82
Takedown accuracy29%
Takedown defence66%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.80

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Heavyweight 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 Heavyweight.
Striking52
Defence58
Grappling / TD30
Cardio77
Chin1
Fight IQ44

Strike zones

Strike zones

Antonio Silva

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

HEAD55.7%ACC 40%BODY19.6%ACC 66%LEGS24.7%ACC 84%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 24.7% to the legs — +10.2 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
55.7% acc 40%−11.3 vs field
BODY
19.6% acc 66%+1.1 vs field
LEGS
24.7% acc 84%+10.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 68%CLINCH 22%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.

11 UFC fights · 194 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Antonio Silva

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

0.82takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 0.82 landed per 15 minutes — −1.57 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS26
0.82 / 15m−1.57 vs field
ATTEMPTS34
2.83 / 15m−2.23 vs field
ACCURACY19
29%−22pp vs field
SUB ATT46
0.80 / 15m−0.91 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.29 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 Heavyweight

Deep stats facts

Career and last-five-fight figures from round-by-round UFC records, with where each ranks among every UFC fighter who has fought enough to be ranked. Tap a stat name for the full leaderboard.

 CareerLast 5 fights
Striking
Strikes landedSignificant strikes landed per minute of fight time.
2.88/min#836 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
2.59/min#1,233 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
4.62/min#1,040 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
4.40/min#1,286 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
50.8%#335 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
48.2%#823 of 1,752 ranked in the UFC
Durability
Knockdowns per 100 head strikesKnockdowns suffered for every 100 head strikes absorbed. Lower means more punishment taken without going down.
2.92small sample (11 fights)
5.80small sample (5 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
70%#803 of 803 ranked in the UFC
80%#1,562 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
61.5%#737 of 1,094 ranked in the UFC
75.0%small sample (5 fights)
Get-up speedSeconds the opponent stays in control after each takedown landed on this fighter. Lower means back on their feet faster.
253 sec#963 of 990 ranked in the UFC
267 secsmall sample (5 fights)
Cardio and late rounds
Round-3 pace kept†Round-3 striking pace as a share of round-1 pace. 100% means no fade.
77%small sample (1 fight)
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Five-round win rate†Share of decided five-round fights won.
25%#172 of 195 ranked in the UFC
0%small sample (1 fight)
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.89 per 15 min#87 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.73 per 15 min#217 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
30%#234 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
20%#585 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
0%#893 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#930 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC

† Needs round-by-round data, which is missing for some UFC bouts. Those fights are left out, not estimated.

Every figure is built from UFC fights that have round-by-round data. Some older bouts do not, and are left out rather than estimated. Figures to 2016-09-24.

Recent form

Pro record: 19-12-1. In the UFC: 3-7-1. Antonio 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.

Post-fight bonuses

2 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Fight of the Night, 1 Knockout of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2013-12-06FOTNFight of the NightMark HuntUFC Fight Night: Hunt vs Bigfoot
2013-02-02KOTNKnockout of the NightAlistair OvereemUFC 156: Aldo vs Edgar

The UFC's post-fight bonus programme began in 2006, so every total here is a career total since 2006. A fighter who fought only before then has no bonuses because the award did not exist yet. Fight of the Night is a shared award and is credited to both fighters. Performance, Knockout and Submission of the Night are individual awards, credited to the fighter the official record names.

Awards whose recipient the official list does not name are credited to nobody, so these counts are a floor: 20 of 611 Fight of the Night, 274 of 1,368 Performance of the Night and 1 of 180 Submission of the Night awards are unassigned as of 11 October 2026.

Full UFC career — 11 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2016-09-24LRoy NelsonKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Cyborg vs. Lansberg
2016-05-08LStefan StruveKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs Arlovski
2015-11-14LMark HuntKO/TKOR1UFC 193: Rousey vs Holm
2015-08-01WSoa PaleleiKO/TKOR2UFC 190: Rousey vs Correia
2015-02-22LFrank MirKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs Mir
2014-09-13LAndrei ArlovskiKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs Arlovski
2013-12-06DMark HuntDecision (majority)R5UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs Bigfoot
2013-05-25LCain VelasquezKO/TKOR1UFC 160: Velasquez vs Silva 2
2013-02-02WAlistair OvereemKO/TKOR3UFC 156: Aldo vs Edgar
2012-10-05WTravis BrowneKO/TKOR1UFC on FX: Browne vs Bigfoot
2012-05-26LCain VelasquezKO/TKOR1UFC 146: Dos Santos vs Mir

Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.

On the map

The 8 cities Antonio Silva has fought a UFC bout in and the camp on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 3 bouts, 2012–2013Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil — 2 bouts, 2014–2016Brisbane, Queensland, Australia — 1 bout, 2013Melbourne, Victoria, Australia — 1 bout, 2015Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA — 1 bout, 2012Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil — 1 bout, 2015Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — 1 bout, 2015Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands — 1 bout, 2016Camp: American Top Team

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

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