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History · 2014 · UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs Henderson 2 · Fabio Maldonado vs Gian Villante
From the tape · 23 Mar 2014

Fabio Maldonado vs Gian Villante

UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs Henderson 2 · Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Result

Fabio Maldonado beat Gian Villante

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain 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.

FM
Red corner FabioMaldonado“Caipira de Aco”Sorocaba, Sao Paulo
VSOn the tape
GV
Blue corner GianVillanteBellmore Kickboxing Academy · Bellmore, New York
Light Heavyweight3 rounds23 Mar 2014
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 22 points more takedown defence than Maldonado.
  • 6 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Villante.
23-11
Record
17-14
34
Age
−6 yr28
6' 1"
Height
+2″6' 3"
75″
Reach
+1″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+46
UFC bouts
2
1/333% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Sorocaba, Sao Paulo
From
Bellmore, 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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Fabio Maldonado1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 2BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Gian Villante15 sig landed
HEAD13%2 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS87%13 of 13
1 of 3
Sig.
strikes
15 of 20
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
4:44
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 4Ground 10
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
Fabio Maldonado59 sig landed
HEAD69%41 of 77BODY31%18 of 25LEGS0%0 landed
Gian Villante14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 37BODY7%1 of 3LEGS29%4 of 4
59 of 102
Sig.
strikes
14 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:11
Control
0:49
Distance 54Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 2
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
Fabio Maldonado72 sig landed
HEAD81%58 of 89BODY18%13 of 22LEGS1%1 of 1
Gian Villante4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 24BODY0%0 of 2LEGS50%2 of 2
72 of 112
Sig.
strikes
4 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 7
0:10
Control
0:12
Distance 70Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 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

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · Herb Dean
Official totals — Fabio Maldonado first
JudgeTotal
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–27
Fernando Amaral29–28
Vitor Pereira29–28

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.

Fabio Maldonado

0.44takedowns / 15 min
0.44 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.45 / 15m
0.77 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.96 / 15m
57%
ACCURACY
23%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Gian Villante

0.45takedowns / 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.

Fabio Maldonado↓ −16.0pp
open 43.3%close 27.4%
Gian Villante↑ +16.0pp
open 56.7%close 72.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Fabio Maldonado opened at 43.3% and closed at 27.4% (−16.0pp), with Gian Villante 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
Fabio Maldonado11525543.3%27.4%−16.0pp
Gian Villante-155-29556.7%72.6%+16.0pp
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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