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History · 2010 · UFC 118: Edgar vs Penn 2 · Demian Maia vs Mario Miranda
From the tape · 28 Aug 2010

Demian Maia vs Mario Miranda

UFC 118: Edgar vs Penn 2 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Result

Demian Maia beat Mario Miranda

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

DM
Red corner DemianMaiaDemian Maia Jiu-Jitsu · Santana de Parnaiba, Sao Paulo
VSOn the tape
MM
Blue corner MarioMirandaBlack House · Rio de Janeiro
Middleweight3 rounds28 Aug 2010
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Is 11 points more accurate striking than Maia.
  • 8 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Miranda.
28-11
Record
14-7
32
Age
−1 yr31
6' 1"
Height
+2″6' 3"
72″
Reach
+2″74″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+68
UFC bouts
2
5/683% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Demian Maia Jiu-Jitsu
Gym
Black House
Santana de Parnaiba, Sao Paulo
From
Rio de Janeiro
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
Demian Maia9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 9BODY44%4 of 8LEGS22%2 of 2
Mario Miranda5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 14BODY0%0 of 1LEGS80%4 of 6
9 of 19
Sig.
strikes
5 of 21
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:40
Control
0:08
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Maia firstSal D'Amato10–9David Ginsberg10–9Cecil Peoples10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Demian Maia13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 17BODY8%1 of 1LEGS8%1 of 1
Mario Miranda3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 4BODY33%1 of 2LEGS33%1 of 1
13 of 19
Sig.
strikes
3 of 7
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:07
Control
0:24
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 12
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Maia firstSal D'Amato10–9David Ginsberg10–9Cecil Peoples10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Demian Maia8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 10BODY0%0 landedLEGS12%1 of 1
Mario Miranda6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 9BODY17%1 of 2LEGS33%2 of 2
8 of 11
Sig.
strikes
6 of 13
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:05
Control
0:49
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Maia firstSal D'Amato10–9David Ginsberg10–9Cecil Peoples10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Demian MaiaMario Miranda
Official totals — Demian Maia first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
David Ginsberg30–27
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% wide30–27

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 — 6 scored, Demian Maia first · unofficial

Mike Chiappetta MMAFighting.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–27
Loretta Hunt Sherdog.com30–27
Tomas Rios Sherdog.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Maia · 100%

6 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.

Demian Maia

2.49takedowns / 15 min
2.49 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.02 / 15m
10.38 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.70 / 15m
24%
ACCURACY
60%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Mario Miranda

1.02takedowns / 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.

Demian Maia↓ −9.0pp
open 75.2%close 66.3%
Mario Miranda↑ +9.0pp
open 24.8%close 33.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Demian Maia opened at 75.2% and closed at 66.3% (−9.0pp), with Mario Miranda 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
Demian Maia-400-21075.2%66.3%−9.0pp
Mario Miranda28019024.8%33.7%+9.0pp
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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