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Events · UFC Fight Night 272: Moicano vs Duncan · Darrius Flowers vs Lando Vannata
Red corner DarriusFlowers“Beast Mode”Mason City, Iowa
VSSettled
Blue corner LandoVannata“Groovy”Elevation Fight Team · Toms River, New Jersey
Catchweight3 rounds4 Apr 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
13-8-1
Record
12-8-2
−3 yr31
Age
34
5' 9"
Height
5' 9"
71″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
+1013
Mason City, Iowa
From
Toms River, New Jersey
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.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Lando Vannata
58.8% confidentLOW
Method calledDEC 65%
Vs the market−8.0pp
Market had our pick at67%
The fight
Darrius Flowers
LOSS
How it endedKO/TKO
Round2 of 3
Clock0:52
Missed We called Lando Vannata at 58.8%Darrius Flowers won. The method call missed as well.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Darrius Flowers17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 22BODY18%3 of 3LEGS29%5 of 5
Lando Vannata22 sig landed
HEAD77%17 of 23BODY18%4 of 5LEGS5%1 of 1
17 of 30
Sig.
strikes
22 of 29
1 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 6
0:18
Control
2:16
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 3Ground 4
Round 20:52 of actionEnded 0:52
Darrius Flowers3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 4BODY33%1 of 1LEGS33%1 of 1
Lando Vannata5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 2BODY20%1 of 3LEGS40%2 of 2
3 of 6
Sig.
strikes
5 of 7
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:05
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0

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

Darrius Flowers

Round
2
Clock
0:52
Method
KO/TKO

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.

Darrius Flowers

1.65takedowns / 15 min
1.65 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.24 / 15m
3.75 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.44 / 15m
44%
ACCURACY
36%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Lando Vannata

1.24takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Darrius Flowers↓ −7.3pp
open 39.3%close 32.0%
Lando Vannata↑ +7.3pp
open 60.7%close 68.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Darrius Flowers opened at 39.3% and closed at 32.0% (−7.3pp), with Lando Vannata 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.

Our published call had Lando Vannata at 58.8%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 68.0% — our number sat 9.2pp below the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Darrius Flowers14519839.3%32.0%−7.3pp
Lando Vannata-170-24860.7%68.0%+7.3pp
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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