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History · 2025 · UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Figueiredo · Thomas Petersen vs Don'Tale Mayes
From the tape · 3 May 2025

Thomas Petersen vs Don'Tale Mayes

UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Figueiredo · Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Result

Thomas Petersen beat Don'Tale Mayes

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Bruce Allen

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.

Red corner ThomasPetersen“The Train”Spartan MMA · Farmington, Minnesota
VSOn the tape
Blue corner Don'TaleMayes“Lord Kong”Bronx Hill MMA · Louisville, Kentucky
Heavyweight3 rounds3 May 2025
The story going in
  • Carries 41 points more takedown defence than Mayes.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
11-5
Record
11-9
−3 yr30
Age
33
6' 1"
Height
+5″6' 6"
74″
Reach
+7″81″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
+811
0/10% of wins
Finishes
2/450% of wins
Spartan MMA
Gym
Bronx Hill MMA
Farmington, Minnesota
From
Louisville, Kentucky
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 action1 sub attempt
Thomas Petersen1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Don'Tale Mayes1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
1 of 3
Sig.
strikes
1 of 5
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:34
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Petersen firstDerek Cleary10–9Bruce Huckfeldt10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Thomas Petersen5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Don'Tale Mayes1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY100%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 19
Sig.
strikes
1 of 4
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:27
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Petersen firstDerek Cleary10–8Bruce Huckfeldt10–8Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Thomas Petersen22 sig landed
HEAD100%22 of 29BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Don'Tale Mayes1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
22 of 29
Sig.
strikes
1 of 2
4 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:48
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 21
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Petersen firstDerek Cleary10–9Bruce Huckfeldt10–8Ron McCarthy10–8

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 · Bruce Allen
Thomas PetersenDon'Tale Mayes
Official totals — Thomas Petersen first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–26
Bruce Huckfeldt30–25
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide30–26

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 — 9 scored, Thomas Petersen first · unofficial

Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–25
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–26
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–26
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Petersen · 39%30-25 Petersen · 30%30-27 Petersen · 17%30-23 Petersen · 9%30-24 Petersen · 4%

23 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.

Thomas Petersen

3.01takedowns / 15 min
3.01 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.59 / 15m
7.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.55 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
38%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Don'Tale Mayes

0.59takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Thomas Petersen↓ −0.9pp
open 72.6%close 71.6%
Don'Tale Mayes↑ +0.9pp
open 27.4%close 28.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Thomas Petersen opened at 72.6% and closed at 71.6% (−0.9pp), with Don'Tale Mayes 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
Thomas Petersen-350-30572.6%71.6%−0.9pp
Don'Tale Mayes24023527.4%28.4%+0.9pp
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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