{"id":288041,"date":"2010-02-06T23:03:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T04:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-218063:1"},"modified":"2010-02-06T23:03:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T04:03:56","slug":"maia-outlasts-miller-in-surprising-standup-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/288041","title":{"rendered":"Maia outlasts Miller in surprising standup bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ept_sports_mma_experts__17\/ept_sports_mma_experts-746963441-1265536469.jpg?ymVHCpCDCKqgWhJ1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Demian Maia has deadly submissions, and Dan Miller knew that coming into their fight at UFC 109. Appropriately, Miller tried to keep the fight standing all along, but he didn&#8217;t do enough to win. Maia took the 30-27, 29-28, 29-28 unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p>In deciding to stand, Miller gave Maia an opportunity to show off how he&#8217;s improved in striking since Nate Marquardt knocked Maia out in August. Maia loaded up with body and leg kicks. Miller&#8217;s skin was bright red from all the strikes he took.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, in the third round, Maia got his takedown, but he wasn&#8217;t able to do much with it. Maia, one of the best jiu-jitsu players to ever fight in MMA, easily avoided Miller&#8217;s submission attempts. Miller was recently awarded a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, but his jiu-jitsu aptitude is nowhere near Maia&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>This win was important for Maia, who needed to get back on track after losing to Marquardt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demian Maia has deadly submissions, and Dan Miller knew that coming into their fight at UFC 109. Appropriately, Miller tried to keep the fight standing all along, but he didn&#8217;t do enough to win. Maia took the 30-27, 29-28, 29-28 unanimous decision. In deciding to stand, Miller gave Maia an opportunity to show off how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}