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History · 2014 · Niklas Backstrom vs Mike Wilkinson
From the tape · 4 Oct 2014

Niklas Backstrom vs Mike Wilkinson

Result

Mike Wilkinson beat Niklas Backstrom

Method
KO/TKO
Round
1 of 3
Clock
1:19
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Bobby Rehman

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.

NB
Red corner NiklasBackstromAllstars Training Center · Stockholm
VSOn the tape
MW
Blue corner MikeWilkinson“The Warrior”Atherton Submission Wrestling · Leigh, Wigan
Featherweight3 rounds4 Oct 2014
The story going in
  • Averages 2.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Wilkinson.
  • Lands 1.2 more significant strikes a minute than Backstrom.
11-3
Record
9-4
−2 yr25
Age
27
+6″6' 1"
Height
5' 7"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+12
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Allstars Training Center
Gym
Atherton Submission Wrestling
Stockholm
From
Leigh, Wigan
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 11:19 of action⚡ 1 KD WilkinsonEnded 1:19
Niklas Backstrom7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS43%3 of 3
Mike Wilkinson6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 12BODY0%0 of 1LEGS33%2 of 2
7 of 12
Sig.
strikes
6 of 15
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:02
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 3

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

Mike Wilkinson

Round
1
Clock
1:19
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: Bobby Rehman.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Niklas Backstrom

2.92takedowns / 15 min
2.92 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.92 / 15m
3.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.57 / 15m
80%
ACCURACY
14%
2.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Mike Wilkinson

0.92takedowns / 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.

Niklas Backstrom↑ +4.8pp
open 82.4%close 87.2%
Mike Wilkinson↓ −4.8pp
open 17.6%close 12.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Niklas Backstrom opened at 82.4% and closed at 87.2% (+4.8pp), with Mike Wilkinson 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
Niklas Backstrom-705-97482.4%87.2%+4.8pp
Mike Wilkinson43565017.6%12.8%−4.8pp
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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