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Events · UFC 154: St-Pierre vs Condit · Steven Siler vs Darren Elkins
From the tape · 17 Nov 2012

Steven Siler vs Darren Elkins

UFC 154: St-Pierre vs Condit · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Result

Darren Elkins beat Steven Siler

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Marc-Andre Cote

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.

SS
Red corner StevenSiler“Super”
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DarrenElkins“The Damage”Hobart, Indiana
Featherweight3 rounds17 Nov 2012
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Averages 2.4 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Siler.
29-16
Record
29-13
−3 yr25
Age
28
+1″5' 11"
Height
5' 10"
70″
Reach
+1″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
+25
+8%1/333% of wins
Finishes
1/425% of wins
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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 action2 sub attempts
Steven Siler4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 10BODY25%1 of 1LEGS50%2 of 3
Darren Elkins20 sig landed
HEAD75%15 of 30BODY15%3 of 7LEGS10%2 of 2
4 of 14
Sig.
strikes
20 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:06
Control
3:53
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 7Ground 9
Judges · this round · Siler firstSal D'Amato9–10Cardo Urso9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action4 sub attempts
Steven Siler3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS33%1 of 1
Darren Elkins7 sig landed
HEAD100%7 of 16BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
3 of 7
Sig.
strikes
7 of 16
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
4:42
0
Sub
attempts
4
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 7
Judges · this round · Siler firstSal D'Amato9–10Cardo Urso9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Steven Siler8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 24BODY38%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Darren Elkins17 sig landed
HEAD82%14 of 30BODY12%2 of 5LEGS6%1 of 1
8 of 27
Sig.
strikes
17 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 4
0:08
Control
2:44
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 4Ground 7
Judges · this round · Siler firstSal D'Amato9–10Cardo Urso9–10Tony Weeks9–10

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 · Marc-Andre Cote
Steven SilerDarren Elkins
Official totals — Steven Siler first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide27–30

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 — 10 scored, Steven Siler first · unofficial

Chris Nelson Sherdog.com26–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com26–30
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com26–30
MM AWeekly.com26–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com27–30
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com27–30
Matthew Roth BleacherReport.com27–30
Adam Martin27–30
Brent Brookhouse BloodyElbow.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Elkins · 67%30-26 Elkins · 28%30-29 Elkins · 6%

18 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.

Steven Siler

0.47takedowns / 15 min
0.47 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.87 / 15m
2.24 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.44 / 15m
21%
ACCURACY
34%
1.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Darren Elkins

2.87takedowns / 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.

Steven Siler↓ −0.6pp
open 50.0%close 49.4%
Darren Elkins↑ +0.6pp
open 50.0%close 50.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Steven Siler opened at 50.0% and closed at 49.4% (−0.6pp), with Darren Elkins 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
Steven Siler-120-10550.0%49.4%−0.6pp
Darren Elkins-120-11050.0%50.6%+0.6pp
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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