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History · 2011 · UFC 131: Dos Santos vs Carwin · Darren Elkins vs Michihiro Omigawa
From the tape · 11 Jun 2011

Darren Elkins vs Michihiro Omigawa

UFC 131: Dos Santos vs Carwin · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Result

Darren Elkins beat Michihiro Omigawa

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Kevin Dornan

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 DarrenElkins“The Damage”Hobart, Indiana
VSOn the tape
MO
Blue corner MichihiroOmigawaNeo Judo Academy · Ibaraki
Featherweight3 rounds11 Jun 2011
The story going in
  • Averages 1.7 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Omigawa.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 13 points more striking defence than Elkins.
29-13
Record
17-14-1
−8 yr27
Age
35
+4″5' 10"
Height
5' 6"
+3″71″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+13
Hobart, Indiana
From
Ibaraki
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 action
Darren Elkins34 sig landed
HEAD91%31 of 102BODY9%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Michihiro Omigawa19 sig landed
HEAD74%14 of 39BODY21%4 of 4LEGS5%1 of 1
34 of 106
Sig.
strikes
19 of 44
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:05
Control
0:00
Distance 34Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elkins firstJason Darrah10–9Dave Hagen10–9Bill Mahood10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Darren Elkins37 sig landed
HEAD86%32 of 111BODY14%5 of 11LEGS0%0 landed
Michihiro Omigawa25 sig landed
HEAD76%19 of 49BODY20%5 of 5LEGS4%1 of 1
37 of 122
Sig.
strikes
25 of 55
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 37Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elkins firstJason Darrah10–9Dave Hagen10–9Bill Mahood10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Darren Elkins7 sig landed
HEAD100%7 of 59BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Michihiro Omigawa21 sig landed
HEAD86%18 of 39BODY14%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 60
Sig.
strikes
21 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
1:28
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Elkins firstJason Darrah9–10Dave Hagen10–9Bill Mahood9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Kevin Dornan
Darren ElkinsMichihiro Omigawa
Official totals — Darren Elkins first
JudgeTotal
Jason Darrah29–28
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Bill Mahood29–28

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 — 5 scored, Darren Elkins first · unofficial

Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Ben Fowlkes MMAFighting.com28–29
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Omigawa · 48%29-28 Omigawa · 29%29-28 Elkins · 24%

21 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.

Darren Elkins

2.87takedowns / 15 min
2.87 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.19 / 15m
8.44 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.31 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
36%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.50 / 15m

Michihiro Omigawa

1.19takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Darren Elkins↑ +8.1pp
open 26.9%close 34.9%
Michihiro Omigawa↓ −8.1pp
open 73.1%close 65.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Darren Elkins opened at 26.9% and closed at 34.9% (+8.1pp), with Michihiro Omigawa 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
Darren Elkins25017526.9%34.9%+8.1pp
Michihiro Omigawa-350-21073.1%65.1%−8.1pp
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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