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History · 2015 · UFC Fight Night: Maia vs LaFlare · Demian Maia vs Ryan LaFlare
From the tape · 21 Mar 2015

Demian Maia vs Ryan LaFlare

UFC Fight Night: Maia vs LaFlare · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Result

Demian Maia beat Ryan LaFlare

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMainReferee · 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.

DM
Red corner DemianMaiaDemian Maia Jiu-Jitsu · Santana de Parnaiba, Sao Paulo
VSOn the tape
RL
Blue corner RyanLaFlareLong Island MMA · Lindenhurst, New York
Welterweight5 rounds21 Mar 2015
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 13 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • 19 UFC bouts deep — 15 more than LaFlare.
  • Lands 1.1 more significant strikes a minute than Maia.
28-11
Record
14-3
37
Age
−6 yr31
6' 1"
Height
6' 1"
72″
Reach
+2″74″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+1519
UFC bouts
4
+54%7/1354% of wins
Finishes
0/40% of wins
Demian Maia Jiu-Jitsu
Gym
Long Island MMA
Santana de Parnaiba, Sao Paulo
From
Lindenhurst, New York
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Demian Maia11 sig landed
HEAD100%11 of 18BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Ryan LaFlare1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
11 of 18
Sig.
strikes
1 of 13
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:47
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Maia firstMarco Aurelio Borges10–9Guilherme Bravo10–9Eric Colón10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Demian Maia7 sig landed
HEAD100%7 of 10BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Ryan LaFlare2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%1 of 3
7 of 10
Sig.
strikes
2 of 12
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:15
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Maia firstMarco Aurelio Borges10–9Guilherme Bravo10–9Eric Colón10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Demian Maia3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 10BODY0%0 landedLEGS33%1 of 1
Ryan LaFlare4 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 9BODY0%0 of 2LEGS100%4 of 4
3 of 11
Sig.
strikes
4 of 15
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:20
Control
0:45
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Maia firstMarco Aurelio Borges10–9Guilherme Bravo10–9Eric Colón10–9
Round 45:00 of action1 sub attempt
Demian Maia10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 14BODY20%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Ryan LaFlare2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 6BODY0%0 of 2LEGS100%2 of 3
10 of 16
Sig.
strikes
2 of 11
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:29
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Maia firstMarco Aurelio Borges10–9Guilherme Bravo10–9Eric Colón10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Demian Maia5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 13BODY20%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Ryan LaFlare16 sig landed
HEAD38%6 of 23BODY31%5 of 11LEGS31%5 of 6
5 of 14
Sig.
strikes
16 of 40
1 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:57
Control
0:52
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Maia firstMarco Aurelio Borges8–10Guilherme Bravo8–10Eric Colón8–10

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 · John McCarthy
Demian MaiaRyan LaFlare
Official totals — Demian Maia first
JudgeTotal
Marco Aurelio Borges48–46
Guilherme Bravo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide48–46
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide48–46

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, Demian Maia first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br48–46
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com48–46
Cage Pages.com48–46
Severe MMA.com48–46
John Pollock Fight Network48–46
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com48–46
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com48–46
MM AJunkie.com48–46
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com48–46
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com48–46
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com48–46
Wrestling Observer48–46
MM AMania.com48–46

Fan vote · unofficial

48-46 Maia · 76%49-46 Maia · 8%48-45 Maia · 5%48-42 Maia · 3%50-45 Maia · 3%

38 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.

Demian Maia

2.49takedowns / 15 min
2.49 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.13 / 15m
10.38 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.84 / 15m
24%
ACCURACY
44%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Ryan LaFlare

2.13takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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→ no move
open 49.1%close 48.9%
Ryan LaFlare→ no move
open 50.9%close 51.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Demian Maia opened at 49.1% and closed at 48.9% once the vig is taken out — a 0.1pp shift across the whole build-up. 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-115-10549.1%48.9%−0.1pp
Ryan LaFlare-125-11550.9%51.1%+0.1pp
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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