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History · 2015 · UFC Fight Night: Magny vs Gastelum · Valmir Lazaro vs Michel Prazeres
From the tape · 21 Nov 2015

Valmir Lazaro vs Michel Prazeres

UFC Fight Night: Magny vs Gastelum · Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Result

Michel Prazeres beat Valmir Lazaro

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Gary Copeland

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.

VL
Red corner ValmirLazaro“Bidu”Nova Uniao · Salvador, Bahia
VSOn the tape
MP
Blue corner MichelPrazeres“Tractor”Belem, Para
Lightweight3 rounds21 Nov 2015
The story going in
  • Carries 49 points more takedown defence than Prazeres.
  • Averages 2.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Lazaro.
15-5
Record
26-4
−4 yr30
Age
34
+6″6' 0"
Height
5' 6"
+6″73″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+24
0/10% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
Salvador, Bahia
From
Belem, Para
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
Valmir Lazaro18 sig landed
HEAD56%10 of 38BODY6%1 of 3LEGS39%7 of 7
Michel Prazeres13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 21BODY0%0 landedLEGS31%4 of 5
18 of 48
Sig.
strikes
13 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
0:00
Control
0:12
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lazaro firstMarcos Rosales9–10Roy Silbert9–10Cardo Urso9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Valmir Lazaro7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 14BODY14%1 of 2LEGS29%2 of 2
Michel Prazeres5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 10BODY40%2 of 2LEGS20%1 of 1
7 of 18
Sig.
strikes
5 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 5
2:20
Control
1:05
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lazaro firstMarcos Rosales9–10Roy Silbert10–9Cardo Urso9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Valmir Lazaro16 sig landed
HEAD94%15 of 35BODY0%0 landedLEGS6%1 of 1
Michel Prazeres2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 10BODY0%0 of 3LEGS50%1 of 1
16 of 36
Sig.
strikes
2 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
1:09
Control
0:44
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lazaro firstMarcos Rosales10–9Roy Silbert10–9Cardo Urso10–9

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 · Gary Copeland
Valmir LazaroMichel Prazeres
Official totals — Valmir Lazaro first
JudgeTotal
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide28–29
Roy Silbert2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 10 scored, Valmir Lazaro first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com29–28
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Lazaro · 64%30-27 Lazaro · 23%29-28 Prazeres · 8%30-28 Lazaro · 3%30-27 Prazeres · 3%

39 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.

Valmir Lazaro

1.33takedowns / 15 min
1.33 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.94 / 15m
3.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
10.94 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
36%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Michel Prazeres

3.94takedowns / 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.

Valmir Lazaro↓ −6.6pp
open 50.9%close 44.4%
Michel Prazeres↑ +6.6pp
open 49.1%close 55.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Valmir Lazaro opened at 50.9% and closed at 44.4% (−6.6pp), with Michel Prazeres 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
Valmir Lazaro-12511750.9%44.4%−6.6pp
Michel Prazeres-115-13749.1%55.6%+6.6pp
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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