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Events · UFC Fight Night: Minotauro vs Nelson · John Howard vs Ryan LaFlare
From the tape · 11 Apr 2014

John Howard vs Ryan LaFlare

UFC Fight Night: Minotauro vs Nelson · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Ryan LaFlare beat John Howard

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

JH
Red corner JohnHoward“Doomsday”Wai Kru MMA · Boston, Massachusetts
VSOn the tape
RL
Blue corner RyanLaFlareLong Island MMA · Lindenhurst, New York
Welterweight3 rounds11 Apr 2014
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Carries 12 points more striking defence than Howard.
24-13
Record
14-3
31
Age
−1 yr30
5' 7"
Height
+6″6' 1"
72″
Reach
+2″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+69
UFC bouts
3
+33%2/633% of wins
Finishes
0/30% of wins
Wai Kru MMA
Gym
Long Island MMA
Boston, Massachusetts
From
Lindenhurst, 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
John Howard15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 13BODY47%7 of 7LEGS13%2 of 2
Ryan LaFlare27 sig landed
HEAD33%9 of 23BODY63%17 of 18LEGS4%1 of 1
15 of 22
Sig.
strikes
27 of 42
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:23
Control
2:41
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 10Ground 5
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⚡ 1 KD Howard
John Howard14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 13BODY21%3 of 4LEGS29%4 of 4
Ryan LaFlare20 sig landed
HEAD35%7 of 15BODY55%11 of 12LEGS10%2 of 2
14 of 21
Sig.
strikes
20 of 29
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
1:25
Control
1:54
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 10Ground 1
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
John Howard6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS33%2 of 2
Ryan LaFlare17 sig landed
HEAD65%11 of 18BODY24%4 of 6LEGS12%2 of 2
6 of 10
Sig.
strikes
17 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
3:50
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 10
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 · Leon Roberts
Official totals — John Howard first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide28–29
Dean Weir28–29

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.

John Howard

2.70takedowns / 15 min
2.70 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.13 / 15m
5.51 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.84 / 15m
49%
ACCURACY
44%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Ryan LaFlare

2.13takedowns / 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.

John Howard↓ −12.9pp
open 34.7%close 21.8%
Ryan LaFlare↑ +12.9pp
open 65.3%close 78.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

John Howard opened at 34.7% and closed at 21.8% (−12.9pp), with Ryan LaFlare 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
John Howard17034734.7%21.8%−12.9pp
Ryan LaFlare-230-40565.3%78.2%+12.9pp
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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