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From the tape · 14 Apr 2012

Cyrille Diabate vs Tom DeBlass

UFC on FUEL TV: Gustafsson vs Silva · Stockholm, Sweden
Result

Cyrille Diabate beat Tom DeBlass

Method
Decision - Majority
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Leon Roberts

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.

CD
Red corner CyrilleDiabate“The Snake”Snake Team · Le Celle St. Clous, Haut de Seine
VSOn the tape
TD
Blue corner TomDeBlassRicardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu · Forked River, New Jersey
Light Heavyweight3 rounds14 Apr 2012
19-10-1
Record
9-2
38
Age
−9 yr29
+6″6' 6"
Height
6' 0"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Snake Team
Gym
Ricardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu
Le Celle St. Clous, Haut de Seine
From
Forked River, New Jersey
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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
Cyrille Diabate1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Tom DeBlass1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 2BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 1
Sig.
strikes
1 of 3
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
4:31
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diabate firstHoward Hughes9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Cyrille Diabate23 sig landed
HEAD61%14 of 14BODY35%8 of 8LEGS4%1 of 1
Tom DeBlass0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed

23 of 23
Sig.
strikes
0 of 0
2 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:29
Control
2:17
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 22
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diabate firstHoward Hughes9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Cyrille Diabate24 sig landed
HEAD71%17 of 19BODY25%6 of 6LEGS4%1 of 1
Tom DeBlass0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 3 thrown

24 of 26
Sig.
strikes
0 of 3
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:58
Control
0:32
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 14
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diabate firstHoward Hughes10–8

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

Majority Decision

Referee · Leon Roberts
Cyrille DiabateTom DeBlass
Official totals — Cyrille Diabate first
JudgeTotal
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–28

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.

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Diabaté · 80%29-28 DeBlass · 20%

5 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.

Cyrille Diabate

1.17takedowns / 15 min
1.17 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.00 / 15m
1.41 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.00 / 15m
83%
ACCURACY
50%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Tom DeBlass

1.00takedowns / 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.

Cyrille Diabate↓ −1.3pp
open 36.8%close 35.4%
Tom DeBlass↑ +1.3pp
open 63.2%close 64.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Cyrille Diabate opened at 36.8% and closed at 35.4% (−1.3pp), with Tom DeBlass 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
Cyrille Diabate16017736.8%35.4%−1.3pp
Tom DeBlass-195-19263.2%64.6%+1.3pp
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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