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Events · James Vick vs Valmir Lazaro
From the tape · 23 Aug 2014

James Vick vs Valmir Lazaro

Result

James Vick beat Valmir Lazaro

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Kevin Nix

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.

JV
Red corner JamesVick“The Texecutioner”Team Lloyd Irvin · Mineral Wells, Texas
VSOn the tape
VL
Blue corner ValmirLazaro“Bidu”Nova Uniao · Salvador, Bahia
Lightweight3 rounds23 Aug 2014
13-5
Record
15-5
−2 yr27
Age
29
+3″6' 3"
Height
6' 0"
+3″76″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Team Lloyd Irvin
Gym
Nova Uniao
Mineral Wells, Texas
From
Salvador, Bahia
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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 action
James Vick34 sig landed
HEAD56%19 of 71BODY26%9 of 12LEGS18%6 of 8
Valmir Lazaro38 sig landed
HEAD66%25 of 71BODY16%6 of 10LEGS18%7 of 9
34 of 91
Sig.
strikes
38 of 90
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:07
Control
0:20
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 29Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 8Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vick firstJason Greenwalt10–9Jim Lambert10–9Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 25:00 of action
James Vick25 sig landed
HEAD68%17 of 63BODY16%4 of 4LEGS16%4 of 4
Valmir Lazaro33 sig landed
HEAD73%24 of 68BODY12%4 of 5LEGS15%5 of 5
25 of 71
Sig.
strikes
33 of 78
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
0:00
Control
0:15
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 23Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 32Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vick firstJason Greenwalt9–10Jim Lambert10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD VickEnded 5:00
James Vick18 sig landed
HEAD83%15 of 55BODY11%2 of 3LEGS6%1 of 1
Valmir Lazaro20 sig landed
HEAD75%15 of 51BODY25%5 of 11LEGS0%0 of 1
18 of 59
Sig.
strikes
20 of 63
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:16
Control
0:23
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vick firstJason Greenwalt10–9Jim Lambert10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Kevin Nix
James VickValmir Lazaro
Official totals — James Vick first
JudgeTotal
Jason Greenwalt29–28
Jim Lambert30–27
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% 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 — 12 scored, James Vick first · unofficial

Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Severe MMA.com30–28
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com30–28
Patrick Wyman BloodyElbow.com29–28
Cage Pages.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
Thomas Myers SBNation.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Lazaro · 48%29-28 Vick · 31%30-27 Vick · 17%30-27 Lazaro · 3%

29 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.

James Vick

0.26takedowns / 15 min
0.26 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.33 / 15m
0.79 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.33 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
40%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Valmir Lazaro

1.33takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

James Vick vs Valmir Lazaro.

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