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Events · UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 · Demian Maia vs Belal Muhammad
From the tape · 12 Jun 2021

Demian Maia vs Belal Muhammad

UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 · Glendale, Arizona, USA
Result

Belal Muhammad beat Demian Maia

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.

DM
Red corner DemianMaiaDemian Maia Jiu-Jitsu · Santana de Parnaiba, Sao Paulo
VSOn the tape
Blue corner BelalMuhammad“Remember the Name”Roufusport · Chicago, Illinois
Welterweight3 rounds12 Jun 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 12 of 22 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 9 UFC wins.
  • 32 UFC bouts deep — 19 more than Muhammad.
  • Lands 2.6 more significant strikes a minute than Maia.
28-11
Record
24-6
43
Age
−11 yr32
+2″6' 1"
Height
5' 11"
72″
Reach
72″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1932
UFC bouts
13
+32%12/2255% of wins
Finishes
2/922% of wins
Demian Maia Jiu-Jitsu
Gym
Roufusport
Santana de Parnaiba, Sao Paulo
From
Chicago, Illinois
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
Demian Maia2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Belal Muhammad5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 21BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
2 of 5
Sig.
strikes
5 of 21
1 of 11
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:30
Control
0:00
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Maia firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Flores10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Demian Maia7 sig landed
HEAD100%7 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Belal Muhammad19 sig landed
HEAD74%14 of 41BODY5%1 of 2LEGS21%4 of 4
7 of 19
Sig.
strikes
19 of 47
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:46
Control
0:00
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Maia firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Flores9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Demian Maia12 sig landed
HEAD100%12 of 29BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Belal Muhammad21 sig landed
HEAD90%19 of 57BODY10%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
12 of 29
Sig.
strikes
21 of 59
0 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:58
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Maia firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Flores9–10Chris Lee9–10

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 · Jason Herzog
Demian MaiaBelal Muhammad
Official totals — Demian Maia first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Chris Flores1.9 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 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 — 17 scored, Demian Maia first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press28–29
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Muhammad · 60%30-27 Muhammad · 29%29-28 Maia · 10%30-28 Muhammad · 1%30-27 Maia · 1%

84 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
2.14 / 15m
10.38 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.94 / 15m
24%
ACCURACY
36%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Belal Muhammad

2.14takedowns / 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 33.8%close 34.0%
Belal Muhammad→ no move
open 66.2%close 66.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Demian Maia opened at 33.8% and closed at 34.0% once the vig is taken out — a 0.2pp 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 Maia18518233.8%34.0%+0.2pp
Belal Muhammad-220-22266.2%66.0%−0.2pp
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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