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Events · UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier · Curtis Millender vs Max Griffin
From the tape · 7 Jul 2018

Curtis Millender vs Max Griffin

UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Curtis Millender beat Max Griffin

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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.

CM
Red corner CurtisMillender“Curtious”CSW · San Bernardino, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MaxGriffin“Pain”MMA Gold Fight Team · Sacramento, California
Welterweight3 rounds7 Jul 2018
17-5
Record
20-13
−2 yr30
Age
32
+3″6' 2"
Height
5' 11"
76″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+34
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
CSW
Gym
MMA Gold Fight Team
San Bernardino, California
From
Sacramento, California
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
Curtis Millender9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 7BODY56%5 of 5LEGS22%2 of 3
Max Griffin14 sig landed
HEAD86%12 of 27BODY0%0 of 1LEGS14%2 of 3
9 of 15
Sig.
strikes
14 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
3:00
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 9
Judges · this round · Millender firstDerek Cleary9–10Dave Hagen9–10Rick Winter9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Curtis Millender10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 25BODY30%3 of 5LEGS10%1 of 3
Max Griffin15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 20BODY27%4 of 7LEGS33%5 of 5
10 of 33
Sig.
strikes
15 of 32
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:19
Control
0:00
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Millender firstDerek Cleary10–9Dave Hagen10–9Rick Winter10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Curtis Millender19 sig landed
HEAD79%15 of 39BODY11%2 of 5LEGS11%2 of 2
Max Griffin15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 28BODY20%3 of 6LEGS13%2 of 2
19 of 46
Sig.
strikes
15 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
1:17
Distance 16Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Millender firstDerek Cleary10–9Dave Hagen10–9Rick Winter10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Jason Herzog
Curtis MillenderMax Griffin
Official totals — Curtis Millender first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Rick Winter2.1 avg spread · 51% wide29–28

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, Curtis Millender first · unofficial

John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Shawn Bitter MMA- Today.com29–28
Phil Murphy ESPN29–28
Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Mike Straus MMAJA29–28
Nolan King MMA- Today.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Chris Connor The Fight City28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Millender · 90%29-28 Griffin · 7%30-27 Griffin · 3%

30 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.

Curtis Millender

0.43takedowns / 15 min
0.43 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.44 / 15m
0.43 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.51 / 15m
100%
ACCURACY
41%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Max Griffin

1.44takedowns / 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.

Curtis Millender↓ −0.6pp
open 62.1%close 61.4%
Max Griffin↑ +0.6pp
open 37.9%close 38.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Curtis Millender opened at 62.1% and closed at 61.4% (−0.6pp), with Max Griffin 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
Curtis Millender-190-17462.1%61.4%−0.6pp
Max Griffin15015137.9%38.6%+0.6pp
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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