Aljamain Sterling vs Jean Silva — fantasy matchup

If they fought

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

Aljamain Sterling 52% Jean Silva 48%

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 Aljamain Sterling at 52%; the other leans Jean Silva at 50%. 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 56%.

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

KO/TKO

36%

Submission

14%

Decision

50%

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 18-5	UFC record	—
26-5	Pro record	Withheld — The official UFC results contradict the career record we were given, so we publish none rather than a wrong one.
Funk Master	Nickname	White Bear
5' 7"	Height	5' 7"
71"▲	Reach	69"
Orthodox	Stance	Orthodox
37	Age	29
145 lbs.	Weight	145 lbs.
United States	Nationality	Brazil
Uniondale, New York, United States	Born in	Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil
Uniondale, New York, United States	Fights out of	São Paulo, Brazil
Serra-Longo Fight Team	Camp	—

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

4.55

Striking accuracy

52%

51%

Strikes absorbed / min

2.15

4.29

Striking defence

59%

54%

Takedowns / 15 min

2.54

1.19

Takedown accuracy

32%

58%

Takedown defence

44%

79%

Sub attempts / 15 min

0.6

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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