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Events · UFC 96: Jackson vs Jardine · Gray Maynard vs Jim Miller
From the tape · 7 Mar 2009

Gray Maynard vs Jim Miller

UFC 96: Jackson vs Jardine · Columbus, Ohio, USA
Result

Gray Maynard beat Jim Miller

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

GM
Red corner GrayMaynardAmerican Kickboxing Academy · Santa Cruz, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JimMiller“A-10”Sussex County MMA · Sparta, New Jersey
Lightweight3 rounds7 Mar 2009
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 34 points more takedown defence than Miller.
  • Is 10 points more accurate striking than Maynard.
13-7-1
Record
39-19
29
Age
−4 yr25
+1″5' 9"
Height
5' 8"
70″
Reach
+1″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+35
UFC bouts
2
1/425% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
American Kickboxing Academy
Gym
Sussex County MMA
Santa Cruz, California
From
Sparta, New Jersey
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

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.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Gray Maynard12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 18BODY42%5 of 7LEGS8%1 of 1
Jim Miller8 sig landed
HEAD12%1 of 24BODY50%4 of 6LEGS38%3 of 3
12 of 26
Sig.
strikes
8 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:03
Control
1:24
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Maynard firstDouglas Crosby10–9Nelson Hamilton10–9Kean McGill10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Gray Maynard14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 33BODY29%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Jim Miller11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 33BODY9%1 of 4LEGS55%6 of 6
14 of 38
Sig.
strikes
11 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:11
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Maynard firstDouglas Crosby10–9Nelson Hamilton10–9Kean McGill10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Gray Maynard11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 27BODY18%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Jim Miller6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 22BODY33%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 29
Sig.
strikes
6 of 24
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 3
1:52
Control
0:02
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Maynard firstDouglas Crosby10–9Nelson Hamilton10–9Kean McGill10–9

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 cards, totalled

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.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Dan Miragliotta
Gray MaynardJim Miller
Official totals — Gray Maynard first
JudgeTotal
Douglas Crosby30–27
Nelson Hamilton2.2 avg spread · 51% wide30–27
Kean McGill30–27

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 — 5 scored, Gray Maynard first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–27
Lotfi Sariahmed Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Maynard · 75%29-28 Maynard · 25%

4 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.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Gray Maynard

2.91takedowns / 15 min
2.91 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.49 / 15m
6.19 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.31 / 15m
47%
ACCURACY
45%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.70 / 15m

Jim Miller

1.49takedowns / 15 min

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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Gray Maynard→ no move
open 62.1%close 61.9%
Jim Miller→ no move
open 37.9%close 38.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Gray Maynard opened at 62.1% and closed at 61.9% once the vig is taken out — a 0.2pp shift across the whole build-up. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Gray Maynard-190-17562.1%61.9%−0.2pp
Jim Miller15015537.9%38.1%+0.2pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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