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Events · UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Askren · Demian Maia vs Ben Askren
From the tape · 26 Oct 2019

Demian Maia vs Ben Askren

UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Askren · Kallang, Singapore
Result

Demian Maia beat Ben Askren

Method
Submission
Round
3 of 5
Clock
3:54
WelterweightMainReferee · Herb Dean

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
BA
Blue corner BenAskren“Funky”Phoenix, Arizona
Welterweight5 rounds26 Oct 2019
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Lands 1.8 more significant strikes a minute than Maia.
  • Has finished 11 of 21 UFC wins.
28-11
Record
19-2
41
Age
−6 yr35
+2″6' 1"
Height
5' 11"
72″
Reach
+1″73″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+2830
UFC bouts
2
11/2152% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Santana de Parnaiba, Sao Paulo
From
Phoenix, Arizona
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Demian Maia28 sig landed
HEAD57%16 of 36BODY43%12 of 18LEGS0%0 landed
Ben Askren27 sig landed
HEAD78%21 of 39BODY7%2 of 2LEGS15%4 of 4
28 of 54
Sig.
strikes
27 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:46
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 18Clinch 10Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 8Ground 2
Round 25:00 of action
Demian Maia23 sig landed
HEAD65%15 of 33BODY35%8 of 11LEGS0%0 landed
Ben Askren22 sig landed
HEAD95%21 of 50BODY0%0 of 2LEGS5%1 of 1
23 of 44
Sig.
strikes
22 of 53
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:38
Control
0:35
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 19Clinch 3Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 2Ground 2
Round 33:54 of action1 sub attemptEnded 3:54
Demian Maia18 sig landed
HEAD72%13 of 19BODY28%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Ben Askren14 sig landed
HEAD86%12 of 27BODY14%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
18 of 24
Sig.
strikes
14 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:51
Control
0:33
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 4Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 2

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Demian Maia

Round
3
Clock
3:54
Method
Submission

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Herb Dean.

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
4.33 / 15m
10.38 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.87 / 15m
24%
ACCURACY
55%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Ben Askren

4.33takedowns / 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 (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↓ −1.6pp
open 41.7%close 40.0%
Ben Askren↑ +1.6pp
open 58.3%close 60.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Demian Maia opened at 41.7% and closed at 40.0% (−1.6pp), with Ben Askren 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
Demian Maia12514041.7%40.0%−1.6pp
Ben Askren-165-16658.3%60.0%+1.6pp
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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