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History · 2014 · UFC 177: Dillashaw vs Soto · Lorenz Larkin vs Derek Brunson
From the tape · 30 Aug 2014

Lorenz Larkin vs Derek Brunson

UFC 177: Dillashaw vs Soto · Sacramento, California, USA
Result

Derek Brunson beat Lorenz Larkin

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

LL
Red corner LorenzLarkin“The Monsoon”Millennia MMA · Riverside, California
VSOn the tape
DB
Blue corner DerekBrunson“The One”Kill Cliff FC · Wilmington, North Carolina
Middleweight3 rounds30 Aug 2014
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 2.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Larkin.
  • Carries 12 points more striking defence than Brunson.
18-6
Record
23-9
−3 yr27
Age
30
5' 11"
Height
+2″6' 1"
72″
Reach
+5″77″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+14
UFC bouts
3
0/10% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Millennia MMA
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Riverside, California
From
Wilmington, North Carolina
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 action1 sub attempt
Lorenz Larkin7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 11BODY43%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Derek Brunson9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 15BODY22%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 14
Sig.
strikes
9 of 17
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 6
0:00
Control
3:38
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 5
Judges · this round · Larkin firstMichael Bell9–10Mike Beltran9–10Derek Cleary9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Lorenz Larkin5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 8BODY80%4 of 4LEGS0%0 of 1
Derek Brunson1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 of 1
5 of 13
Sig.
strikes
1 of 7
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:00
Control
3:08
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Larkin firstMichael Bell9–10Mike Beltran9–10Derek Cleary9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Lorenz Larkin8 sig landed
HEAD25%2 of 5BODY75%6 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Derek Brunson2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
8 of 13
Sig.
strikes
2 of 6
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
3:56
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Larkin firstMichael Bell9–10Mike Beltran9–10Derek Cleary9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Lorenz LarkinDerek Brunson
Official totals — Lorenz Larkin first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell27–30
Mike Beltran27–30
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–30

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 — 16 scored, Lorenz Larkin first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com27–30
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com27–30
John Pollock Fight Network27–30
MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Severe MMA.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com27–30
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com27–30
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com27–30
MM AWeekly.com27–30
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com27–30
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer27–30
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com28–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Brunson · 100%

13 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.

Lorenz Larkin

0.27takedowns / 15 min
0.27 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.14 / 15m
0.64 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.52 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
33%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Derek Brunson

3.14takedowns / 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.

Lorenz Larkin↓ −14.7pp
open 53.8%close 39.1%
Derek Brunson↑ +14.7pp
open 46.2%close 60.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Lorenz Larkin opened at 53.8% and closed at 39.1% (−14.7pp), with Derek Brunson 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
Lorenz Larkin-14014753.8%39.1%−14.7pp
Derek Brunson100-17046.2%60.9%+14.7pp
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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