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Events · UFC Fight Night: Maynard vs Diaz · Gray Maynard vs Nate Diaz
From the tape · 11 Jan 2010

Gray Maynard vs Nate Diaz

UFC Fight Night: Maynard vs Diaz · Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Result

Gray Maynard beat Nate Diaz

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMainReferee · Mario Yamasaki

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
ND
Blue corner NateDiazCesar Gracie Fight Team · Stockton, California
Lightweight3 rounds11 Jan 2010
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Carries 40 points more takedown defence than Diaz.
  • Lands 2.7 more significant strikes a minute than Maynard.
13-7-1
Record
22-13
30
Age
−6 yr24
5' 9"
Height
+3″6' 0"
70″
Reach
+6″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
7
UFC bouts
+18
1/617% of wins
Finishes
+67%5/683% of wins
American Kickboxing Academy
Gym
Cesar Gracie Fight Team
Santa Cruz, California
From
Stockton, California
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Gray Maynard10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 50BODY20%2 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
Nate Diaz18 sig landed
HEAD56%10 of 49BODY11%2 of 3LEGS33%6 of 7
10 of 53
Sig.
strikes
18 of 59
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Gray Maynard15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 38BODY33%5 of 8LEGS0%0 of 2
Nate Diaz28 sig landed
HEAD71%20 of 77BODY14%4 of 10LEGS14%4 of 5
15 of 48
Sig.
strikes
28 of 92
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:06
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Gray Maynard16 sig landed
HEAD69%11 of 35BODY25%4 of 5LEGS6%1 of 1
Nate Diaz24 sig landed
HEAD79%19 of 88BODY12%3 of 9LEGS8%2 of 3
16 of 41
Sig.
strikes
24 of 100
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:05
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 2Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Decision - Split

Referee · Mario Yamasaki
Official totals — Gray Maynard first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Doug Crosby2.3 avg spread · 51% wide30–27
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

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
1.05 / 15m
6.19 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.50 / 15m
47%
ACCURACY
30%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Nate Diaz

1.05takedowns / 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↑ +3.0pp
open 72.8%close 75.8%
Nate Diaz↓ −3.0pp
open 27.2%close 24.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Gray Maynard opened at 72.8% and closed at 75.8% (+3.0pp), with Nate Diaz moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. 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-325-36072.8%75.8%+3.0pp
Nate Diaz25030027.2%24.2%−3.0pp
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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