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History · 2014 · UFC Fight Night: Brown vs Silva · Chris Cariaso vs Louis Smolka
From the tape · 10 May 2014

Chris Cariaso vs Louis Smolka

UFC Fight Night: Brown vs Silva · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Result

Chris Cariaso beat Louis Smolka

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain 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.

CC
Red corner ChrisCariaso“Kamikaze”Fight and Fitness · San Francisco, California
VSOn the tape
LS
Blue corner LouisSmolka“Da Last Samurai”Team Oyama · Waipahu, Hawaii
Flyweight3 rounds10 May 2014
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Lands 1.3 more significant strikes a minute than Cariaso.
  • 9 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Smolka.
17-8
Record
17-9
32
Age
−10 yr22
5' 3"
Height
+6″5' 9"
64″
Reach
+4″68″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+89
UFC bouts
1
1/617% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Fight and Fitness
Gym
Team Oyama
San Francisco, California
From
Waipahu, Hawaii
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 action2 sub attempts
Chris Cariaso23 sig landed
HEAD26%6 of 14BODY61%14 of 22LEGS13%3 of 3
Louis Smolka11 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 16BODY45%5 of 8LEGS55%6 of 6
23 of 39
Sig.
strikes
11 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:09
Control
3:20
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 17Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 10Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cariaso firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Cardo Urso10–9
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Chris Cariaso13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 19BODY46%6 of 8LEGS8%1 of 1
Louis Smolka9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 15BODY56%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 28
Sig.
strikes
9 of 20
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
1:36
Control
2:15
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 2
Judges · this round · Cariaso firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9Cardo Urso10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Chris Cariaso28 sig landed
HEAD39%11 of 35BODY7%2 of 6LEGS54%15 of 16
Louis Smolka22 sig landed
HEAD73%16 of 39BODY14%3 of 4LEGS14%3 of 4
28 of 57
Sig.
strikes
22 of 47
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:24
Control
1:59
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 24Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 5Ground 4
Judges · this round · Cariaso firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee10–9Cardo Urso9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Chris CariasoLouis Smolka
Official totals — Chris Cariaso first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28

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.

Media cards — 13 scored, Chris Cariaso first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Javier Vasquez Sherdog.com30–27
Severe MMA.com29–28
Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com29–28
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28
Thomas Myers MMAMania.com29–28
Sean Smith BleacherReport.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Cariaso · 33%29-28 Smolka · 33%30-27 Cariaso · 22%30-29 Cariaso · 4%30-27 Smolka · 4%

27 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.

Chris Cariaso

1.11takedowns / 15 min
1.11 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.69 / 15m
2.85 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.83 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
35%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.80 / 15m

Louis Smolka

1.69takedowns / 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.

Chris Cariaso↓ −6.1pp
open 48.1%close 42.0%
Louis Smolka↑ +6.1pp
open 51.9%close 58.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Chris Cariaso opened at 48.1% and closed at 42.0% (−6.1pp), with Louis Smolka 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
Chris Cariaso-11013248.1%42.0%−6.1pp
Louis Smolka-130-14751.9%58.0%+6.1pp
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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