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Events · UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson · Darian Weeks vs Yohan Lainesse
From the tape · 10 Sep 2022

Darian Weeks vs Yohan Lainesse

UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Yohan Lainesse beat Darian Weeks

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Mike Beltran

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.

DW
Red corner DarianWeeksHulett House Gym · Sedalia, Missouri
VSOn the tape
Blue corner YohanLainesse“White Lion”Brazilian Top Team Canada · Varennes, Quebec
Welterweight3 rounds10 Sep 2022
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 28 points more takedown defence than Lainesse.
5-3
Record
9-3
−2 yr28
Age
30
5' 11"
Height
+2″6' 1"
72″
Reach
+4″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+12
UFC bouts
1
Hulett House Gym
Gym
Brazilian Top Team Canada
Sedalia, Missouri
From
Varennes, Quebec
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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
Darian Weeks13 sig landed
HEAD8%1 of 20BODY23%3 of 5LEGS69%9 of 12
Yohan Lainesse13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 19BODY23%3 of 4LEGS38%5 of 5
13 of 37
Sig.
strikes
13 of 28
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:19
Control
0:00
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Weeks firstMichael Bell9–10Ron McCarthy9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Darian Weeks19 sig landed
HEAD47%9 of 21BODY21%4 of 8LEGS32%6 of 11
Yohan Lainesse5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 11BODY20%1 of 1LEGS40%2 of 4
19 of 40
Sig.
strikes
5 of 16
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:42
Control
0:00
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Weeks firstMichael Bell10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Darian Weeks12 sig landed
HEAD33%4 of 19BODY25%3 of 6LEGS42%5 of 6
Yohan Lainesse5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 16BODY20%1 of 2LEGS20%1 of 4
12 of 31
Sig.
strikes
5 of 22
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:48
Control
0:17
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Weeks firstMichael Bell9–10Ron McCarthy10–9Tony Weeks9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Mike Beltran
Darian WeeksYohan Lainesse
Official totals — Darian Weeks first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide29–28
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% 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 — 15 scored, Darian Weeks first · unofficial

Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Jillian DeCoursey29–28
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Alex Behunin Cageside Press29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Weeks · 63%29-28 Lainesse · 24%30-27 Weeks · 9%30-28 Weeks · 1%

91 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.

Darian Weeks

2.00takedowns / 15 min
2.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.94 / 15m
6.67 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.36 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
28%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Yohan Lainesse

0.94takedowns / 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 (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.

Darian Weeks↑ +10.2pp
open 42.0%close 52.2%
Yohan Lainesse↓ −10.2pp
open 58.0%close 47.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Darian Weeks opened at 42.0% and closed at 52.2% (+10.2pp), with Yohan Lainesse 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
Darian Weeks130-12042.0%52.2%+10.2pp
Yohan Lainesse-15010058.0%47.8%−10.2pp
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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