Built from Demian Maia’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler
6' 1" southpaw submission grappler campaigning at Welterweight. 22 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 11 submission, 10 decision. Top 11% of Welterweights: avoids 63% of the strikes thrown at him and absorbs only 2.07 significant strikes a minute.
The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.
| Nickname | pending |
| Nationality | Brazil |
| Hometown (per Sherdog) | Santana de Parnaiba, Sao Paulo |
| Camp | Demian Maia Jiu-Jitsu |
| Height | 6' 1" |
| Reach | 72" |
| Stance | Southpaw |
| Age | 48 |
| Date of birth | Nov 06, 1977 |
| Weight | 170 lbs. |
| Pro record | 28-11 |
| UFC record | UFC 22-11 first fight 2007-10-20 · last fight 2021-06-12 |
| Finish split | 22 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 11 submission, 10 decision |
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Every week Demian Maia has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.
Official UFC.com official rankings, 2013–present · rankings of 6 October 2026
A published rank holds until the next table changes it, so a band runs from the table that set it to the table that ended it — that is how a ranking works, and it is why an unbroken reign is drawn unbroken. Nothing is interpolated: the band is the last published STATUS, never a rank in between, and the hatched stretches are weeks the archive holds no table for at all. The champion band sits above #1 because a belt is not a rank. The three pound-for-pound tables — the combined one to January 2020, then the Men's and Women's ones — share a row, because they are one standing under three names.
Career averages over Demian Maia’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.27 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.
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.
Pro record: 28-11. In the UFC: 22-11. Demian Maia’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.
Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.
8 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 2 Fight of the Night, 2 Performance of the Night, 4 Submission of the Night.
| Date | Award | Opponent | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-26 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Ben Askren | UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Askren |
| 2016-08-27 | POTN | Performance of the Night | Carlos Condit | UFC on FOX: Maia vs. Condit |
| 2015-08-01 | POTN | Performance of the Night | Neil Magny | UFC 190: Rousey vs Correia |
| 2014-02-22 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Rory MacDonald | UFC 170: Rousey vs McMann |
| 2009-02-21 | SOTN | Submission of the Night | Chael Sonnen | UFC 95: Sanchez vs Stevenson |
| 2008-08-09 | SOTN | Submission of the Night | Jason MacDonald | UFC 87: Seek And Destroy |
| 2008-04-19 | SOTN | Submission of the Night | Ed Herman | UFC 83: Serra vs St-Pierre 2 |
| 2007-10-20 | SOTN | Submission of the Night | Ryan Jensen | UFC 77: Hostile Territory |
The UFC's post-fight bonus programme began in 2006, so every total here is a career total since 2006. A fighter who fought only before then has no bonuses because the award did not exist yet. Fight of the Night is a shared award and is credited to both fighters. Performance, Knockout and Submission of the Night are individual awards, credited to the fighter the official record names.
Awards whose recipient the official list does not name are credited to nobody, so these counts are a floor: 245 of 1,339 Performance of the Night and 1 of 180 Submission of the Night awards are unassigned as of 11 October 2026.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-12 | L | Belal Muhammad | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 |
| 2020-03-14 | L | Gilbert Burns | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Lee vs. Oliveira |
| 2019-10-26 | W | Ben Askren | Submission | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Askren |
| 2019-06-29 | W | Anthony Rocco Martin | Decision (majority) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs. Dos Santos |
| 2019-02-02 | W | Lyman Good | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Assuncao vs. Moraes 2 |
| 2018-05-19 | L | Kamaru Usman | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Usman |
| 2017-10-28 | L | Colby Covington | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Machida |
| 2017-07-29 | L | Tyron Woodley | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 214: Cormier vs. Jones 2 |
| 2017-05-13 | W | Jorge Masvidal | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 211: Miocic vs. Dos Santos |
| 2016-08-27 | W | Carlos Condit | Submission | R1 | UFC on FOX: Maia vs. Condit |
| 2016-05-14 | W | Matt Brown | Submission | R3 | UFC 198: Werdum vs Miocic |
| 2015-12-12 | W | Gunnar Nelson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 194: Aldo vs McGregor |
| 2015-08-01 | W | Neil Magny | Submission | R2 | UFC 190: Rousey vs Correia |
| 2015-03-21 | W | Ryan LaFlare | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Maia vs LaFlare |
| 2014-05-31 | W | Alexander Yakovlev | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | — |
| 2014-02-22 | L | Rory MacDonald | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 170: Rousey vs McMann |
| 2013-10-09 | L | Jake Shields | Decision (split) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Maia vs Shields |
| 2013-02-02 | W | Jon Fitch | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 156: Aldo vs Edgar |
| 2012-10-13 | W | Rick Story | Submission | R1 | UFC 153: Silva vs Bonnar |
| 2012-07-07 | W | Dong Hyun Kim | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 148: Silva vs Sonnen 2 |
| 2012-01-28 | L | Chris Weidman | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Evans vs Davis |
| 2011-10-08 | W | Jorge Santiago | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 136: Edgar vs Maynard 3 |
| 2011-06-11 | L | Mark Munoz | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 131: Dos Santos vs Carwin |
| 2010-12-04 | W | Kendall Grove | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs Team Koscheck Finale |
| 2010-08-28 | W | Mario Miranda | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 118: Edgar vs Penn 2 |
| 2010-04-10 | L | Anderson Silva | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 112: Invincible |
| 2010-02-06 | W | Dan Miller | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 109: Relentless |
| 2009-08-29 | L | Nate Marquardt | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 102: Couture vs Nogueira |
| 2009-02-21 | W | Chael Sonnen | Submission | R1 | UFC 95: Sanchez vs Stevenson |
| 2008-11-15 | W | Nate Quarry | Submission | R1 | UFC 91: Couture vs Lesnar |
| 2008-08-09 | W | Jason MacDonald | Submission | R3 | UFC 87: Seek And Destroy |
| 2008-04-19 | W | Ed Herman | Submission | R2 | UFC 83: Serra vs St-Pierre 2 |
| 2007-10-20 | W | Ryan Jensen | Submission | R1 | UFC 77: Hostile Territory |
Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.
The 23 cities Demian Maia has fought a UFC bout in and the hometown on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.
Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.