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Events · UFC on FOX: Evans vs Davis · Demian Maia vs Chris Weidman
From the tape · 28 Jan 2012

Demian Maia vs Chris Weidman

UFC on FOX: Evans vs Davis · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Result

Chris Weidman beat Demian Maia

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
Blue corner ChrisWeidman“The All-American”Serra-Longo Fight Team · Baldwin, New York
Middleweight3 rounds28 Jan 2012
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Weidman.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
28-11
Record
16-8
34
Age
−7 yr27
6' 1"
Height
+1″6' 2"
72″
Reach
+6″78″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+912
UFC bouts
3
5/956% of wins
Finishes
+11%2/367% of wins
Demian Maia Jiu-Jitsu
Gym
Serra-Longo Fight Team
Santana de Parnaiba, Sao Paulo
From
Baldwin, New York
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 Maia14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 47BODY21%3 of 5LEGS7%1 of 1
Chris Weidman14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 53BODY29%4 of 5LEGS7%1 of 2
14 of 53
Sig.
strikes
14 of 60
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:09
Distance 9Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Maia firstSal D'Amato9–10Pat Morley9–10Gabriel Sabaitis9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Demian Maia16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 40BODY44%7 of 9LEGS6%1 of 2
Chris Weidman16 sig landed
HEAD62%10 of 32BODY19%3 of 4LEGS19%3 of 3
16 of 51
Sig.
strikes
16 of 39
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:00
Control
0:46
Distance 14Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Maia firstSal D'Amato10–9Pat Morley9–10Gabriel Sabaitis10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Demian Maia21 sig landed
HEAD81%17 of 58BODY19%4 of 6LEGS0%0 of 1
Chris Weidman28 sig landed
HEAD86%24 of 60BODY11%3 of 6LEGS4%1 of 1
21 of 65
Sig.
strikes
28 of 67
0 of 6
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:43
Distance 16Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 7Ground 1
Judges · this round · Maia firstSal D'Amato9–10Pat Morley9–10Gabriel Sabaitis9–10

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 MaiaChris Weidman
Official totals — Demian Maia first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Pat Morley27–30
Gabriel Sabaitis28–29

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 — 7 scored, Demian Maia first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com27–30
Ray Hui MMAFighting.com27–30
MM AWeekly.com27–30
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com27–30
Freddie DeFreitas Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Fight Metric.com28–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Weidman · 60%29-28 Weidman · 14%29-28 Maia · 11%30-29 Weidman · 3%

37 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
3.27 / 15m
10.38 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.79 / 15m
24%
ACCURACY
42%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Chris Weidman

3.27takedowns / 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→ no move
open 40.6%close 40.7%
Chris Weidman→ no move
open 59.4%close 59.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Demian Maia opened at 40.6% and closed at 40.7% once the vig is taken out — a 0.1pp 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
Demian Maia13514240.6%40.7%+0.1pp
Chris Weidman-165-15259.4%59.3%−0.1pp
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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