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Events · Demian Maia vs Alexander Yakovlev
From the tape · 31 May 2014

Demian Maia vs Alexander Yakovlev

Result

Demian Maia beat Alexander Yakovlev

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

DM
Red corner DemianMaiaDemian Maia Jiu-Jitsu · Santana de Parnaiba, Sao Paulo
VSOn the tape
AY
Blue corner AlexanderYakovlev“Russian Thunder”K Dojo Warrior Tribe · St. Petersburg
Welterweight3 rounds31 May 2014
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 7 of 12 UFC wins.
28-11
Record
24-10-1
36
Age
−7 yr29
6' 1"
Height
+2″6' 3"
72″
Reach
+2″74″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
Demian Maia Jiu-Jitsu
Gym
K Dojo Warrior Tribe
Santana de Parnaiba, Sao Paulo
From
St. Petersburg
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⚡ 1 KD Maia
Demian Maia17 sig landed
HEAD100%17 of 39BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 of 1
Alexander Yakovlev0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY0%0 of 2LEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 6 thrown

17 of 40
Sig.
strikes
0 of 6
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:46
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 14
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
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
Demian Maia5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 12BODY40%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Alexander Yakovlev5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS40%2 of 4
5 of 14
Sig.
strikes
5 of 11
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:29
Control
1:22
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 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
Demian Maia7 sig landed
HEAD100%7 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Alexander Yakovlev17 sig landed
HEAD29%5 of 9BODY6%1 of 1LEGS65%11 of 16
7 of 19
Sig.
strikes
17 of 26
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:54
Control
0:06
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 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 — Demian Maia first
JudgeTotal
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Guilherme Bravo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide30–27
Vinicius Lins30–27

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.

Demian Maia

2.49takedowns / 15 min
2.49 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.66 / 15m
10.38 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.74 / 15m
24%
ACCURACY
35%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Alexander Yakovlev

1.66takedowns / 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.

Demian Maia↑ +3.4pp
open 76.4%close 79.8%
Alexander Yakovlev↓ −3.4pp
open 23.6%close 20.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Demian Maia opened at 76.4% and closed at 79.8% (+3.4pp), with Alexander Yakovlev 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
Demian Maia-420-45776.4%79.8%+3.4pp
Alexander Yakovlev30038123.6%20.2%−3.4pp
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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