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Events · UFC 184: Rousey vs Zingano · James Krause vs Valmir Lazaro
From the tape · 28 Feb 2015

James Krause vs Valmir Lazaro

UFC 184: Rousey vs Zingano · Los Angeles, California, USA
Result

Valmir Lazaro beat James Krause

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · John McCarthy

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.

JK
Red corner JamesKrause“The”Glory MMA & Fitness · Lee's Summit, Missouri
VSOn the tape
VL
Blue corner ValmirLazaro“Bidu”Nova Uniao · Salvador, Bahia
Lightweight3 rounds28 Feb 2015
The story going in
  • Is 12 points more accurate striking than Lazaro.
  • Carries 37 points more takedown defence than Krause.
28-9
Record
15-5
−1 yr28
Age
29
+2″6' 2"
Height
6' 0"
73″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+34
UFC bouts
1
Glory MMA & Fitness
Gym
Nova Uniao
Lee's Summit, Missouri
From
Salvador, Bahia
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 action
James Krause18 sig landed
HEAD50%9 of 28BODY28%5 of 6LEGS22%4 of 7
Valmir Lazaro21 sig landed
HEAD48%10 of 43BODY29%6 of 10LEGS24%5 of 6
18 of 41
Sig.
strikes
21 of 59
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:09
Control
0:24
Distance 16Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Krause firstMichael Bell9–10Marcos Rosales9–10Wade Vierra9–10
Round 25:00 of action
James Krause31 sig landed
HEAD68%21 of 58BODY13%4 of 7LEGS19%6 of 9
Valmir Lazaro36 sig landed
HEAD83%30 of 78BODY11%4 of 8LEGS6%2 of 2
31 of 74
Sig.
strikes
36 of 88
0 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:05
Control
0:00
Distance 30Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Krause firstMichael Bell10–9Marcos Rosales9–10Wade Vierra9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
James Krause38 sig landed
HEAD74%28 of 80BODY13%5 of 9LEGS13%5 of 5
Valmir Lazaro30 sig landed
HEAD67%20 of 90BODY20%6 of 12LEGS13%4 of 5
38 of 94
Sig.
strikes
30 of 107
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:29
Control
0:00
Distance 38Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Krause firstMichael Bell10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Wade Vierra10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · John McCarthy
James KrauseValmir Lazaro
Official totals — James Krause first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide28–29
Wade Vierra1.8 avg spread · 33% wide28–29

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, James Krause first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Severe MMA.com28–29
Patrick Wyman BloodyElbow.com28–29
Cage Pages.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Wrestling Observer28–29
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Krause · 46%29-28 Lazaro · 34%30-27 Lazaro · 9%30-27 Krause · 6%30-28 Lazaro · 3%

35 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 Krause

0.96takedowns / 15 min
0.96 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.33 / 15m
5.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.33 / 15m
18%
ACCURACY
40%
0.90 / 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 (5.32 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.

James Krause↑ +7.7pp
open 57.5%close 65.2%
Valmir Lazaro↓ −7.7pp
open 42.5%close 34.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

James Krause opened at 57.5% and closed at 65.2% (+7.7pp), with Valmir Lazaro 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
James Krause-160-20257.5%65.2%+7.7pp
Valmir Lazaro12018042.5%34.8%−7.7pp
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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