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History · 2015 · UFC Fight Night: Mendes vs Lamas · Gray Maynard vs Alexander Yakovlev
From the tape · 4 Apr 2015

Gray Maynard vs Alexander Yakovlev

UFC Fight Night: Mendes vs Lamas · Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Result

Alexander Yakovlev beat Gray Maynard

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

GM
Red corner GrayMaynardAmerican Kickboxing Academy · Santa Cruz, California
VSOn the tape
AY
Blue corner AlexanderYakovlev“Russian Thunder”K Dojo Warrior Tribe · St. Petersburg
Lightweight3 rounds4 Apr 2015
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • 15 UFC bouts deep — 13 more than Yakovlev.
  • Is 15 points more accurate striking than Maynard.
13-7-1
Record
24-10-1
35
Age
−5 yr30
5' 9"
Height
+6″6' 3"
70″
Reach
+4″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+1315
UFC bouts
2
American Kickboxing Academy
Gym
K Dojo Warrior Tribe
Santa Cruz, California
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 — 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
Gray Maynard8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 22BODY25%2 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Alexander Yakovlev5 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 12BODY100%5 of 6LEGS0%0 of 1
8 of 27
Sig.
strikes
5 of 19
0 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:52
Control
0:30
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Maynard firstDouglas Crosby9–10Scott Howard10–9Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Yakovlev
Gray Maynard7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 10BODY14%1 of 7LEGS14%1 of 1
Alexander Yakovlev18 sig landed
HEAD72%13 of 29BODY22%4 of 5LEGS6%1 of 1
7 of 18
Sig.
strikes
18 of 35
1 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:06
Control
1:18
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 5Ground 8
Judges · this round · Maynard firstDouglas Crosby9–10Scott Howard9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Gray Maynard6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS17%1 of 1
Alexander Yakovlev8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 18BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
6 of 10
Sig.
strikes
8 of 18
1 of 6
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:56
Control
1:05
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Maynard firstDouglas Crosby9–10Scott Howard9–10Dave Tirelli9–10

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Gray MaynardAlexander Yakovlev
Official totals — Gray Maynard first
JudgeTotal
Douglas Crosby27–30
Scott Howard28–29
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% 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 — 13 scored, Gray Maynard first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com27–30
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com27–30
Josh Nason Wrestling Observer27–30
Severe MMA.com27–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com27–29
Cage Pages.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com28–29
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Yakovlev · 54%30-27 Yakovlev · 31%29-27 Yakovlev · 12%30-28 Yakovlev · 4%

26 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.

Gray Maynard

2.91takedowns / 15 min
2.91 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.66 / 15m
6.19 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.74 / 15m
47%
ACCURACY
35%
0.70 / 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.

Gray Maynard↓ −15.7pp
open 59.2%close 43.4%
Alexander Yakovlev↑ +15.7pp
open 40.8%close 56.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Gray Maynard opened at 59.2% and closed at 43.4% (−15.7pp), 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
Gray Maynard-17012259.2%43.4%−15.7pp
Alexander Yakovlev130-14240.8%56.6%+15.7pp
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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