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History · 2014 · UFC 170: Rousey vs McMann · Rory MacDonald vs Demian Maia
From the tape · 22 Feb 2014

Rory MacDonald vs Demian Maia

UFC 170: Rousey vs McMann · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Rory MacDonald beat Demian Maia

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

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.

RM
Red corner RoryMacDonald“Red King”Tristar Gym · Kelowna, British Columbia
VSOn the tape
DM
Blue corner DemianMaiaDemian Maia Jiu-Jitsu · Santana de Parnaiba, Sao Paulo
Welterweight3 rounds22 Feb 2014
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 7 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Carries 27 points more takedown defence than Maia.
  • 17 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than MacDonald.
19-4
Record
28-11
−12 yr24
Age
36
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
+4″76″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
8
UFC bouts
+917
3/650% of wins
Finishes
+8%7/1258% of wins
Tristar Gym
Gym
Demian Maia Jiu-Jitsu
Kelowna, British Columbia
From
Santana de Parnaiba, Sao Paulo
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
Rory MacDonald6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 21BODY17%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Demian Maia27 sig landed
HEAD74%20 of 31BODY22%6 of 6LEGS4%1 of 1
6 of 22
Sig.
strikes
27 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:00
Control
3:51
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 21
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
Rory MacDonald40 sig landed
HEAD82%33 of 99BODY18%7 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
Demian Maia13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 28BODY8%1 of 3LEGS38%5 of 5
40 of 108
Sig.
strikes
13 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 7
0:02
Control
0:00
Distance 40Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 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
Rory MacDonald29 sig landed
HEAD83%24 of 77BODY14%4 of 5LEGS3%1 of 1
Demian Maia11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 44BODY0%0 landedLEGS9%1 of 2
29 of 83
Sig.
strikes
11 of 46
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 11
0:05
Control
1:09
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Yves Lavigne
Official totals — Rory MacDonald first
JudgeTotal
Lester Griffin2.0 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% 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.

Media cards — 17 scored, Rory MacDonald first · unofficial

Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28
Jesse Holland MMAMania.com29–28
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
Sean Smith BleacherReport.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Chase Raymond BJPenn.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Severe MMA.com29–28
Paul- Delos Santos Las Vegas Sun29–28
John Pollock Fight Network29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 MacDonald · 50%28-27 MacDonald · 12%29-28 Maia · 5%29-27 MacDonald · 4%

115 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.

Rory MacDonald

1.77takedowns / 15 min
1.77 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.49 / 15m
3.77 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
10.38 / 15m
47%
ACCURACY
24%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Demian Maia

2.49takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Rory MacDonald↑ +7.9pp
open 64.4%close 72.3%
Demian Maia↓ −7.9pp
open 35.6%close 27.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rory MacDonald opened at 64.4% and closed at 72.3% (+7.9pp), with Demian Maia 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
Rory MacDonald-215-29564.4%72.3%+7.9pp
Demian Maia16525035.6%27.7%−7.9pp
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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