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Events · UFC 179: Aldo vs Mendes 2 · Darren Elkins vs Lucas Martins
From the tape · 25 Oct 2014

Darren Elkins vs Lucas Martins

UFC 179: Aldo vs Mendes 2 · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Result

Darren Elkins beat Lucas Martins

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Osiris Maia

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
LM
Blue corner LucasMartins“Mineiro”Capital da Luta · Montes Claros, Minas Gerais
Featherweight3 rounds25 Oct 2014
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Martins.
  • Every one of Martins’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
29-13
Record
19-3
30
Age
−5 yr25
5' 10"
Height
+2″6' 0"
71″
Reach
+1″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+610
UFC bouts
4
2/729% of wins
Finishes
+71%3/3100% of wins
Hobart, Indiana
From
Montes Claros, Minas Gerais
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 Elkins23 sig landed
HEAD57%13 of 55BODY35%8 of 18LEGS9%2 of 2
Lucas Martins9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 26BODY11%1 of 1LEGS44%4 of 5
23 of 75
Sig.
strikes
9 of 32
1 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:23
Control
0:06
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 9Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elkins firstRichard Bertrand10–9Eric Colón10–9Vinicius Lins9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Darren Elkins14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 33BODY29%4 of 10LEGS14%2 of 2
Lucas Martins9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 29BODY33%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 45
Sig.
strikes
9 of 32
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:16
Control
0:19
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 5Clinch 9Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elkins firstRichard Bertrand10–9Eric Colón10–9Vinicius Lins9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Darren Elkins10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 25BODY50%5 of 8LEGS10%1 of 1
Lucas Martins8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 15BODY25%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 34
Sig.
strikes
8 of 18
0 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:24
Control
0:01
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elkins firstRichard Bertrand10–9Eric Colón10–9Vinicius Lins9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Osiris Maia
Darren ElkinsLucas Martins
Official totals — Darren Elkins first
JudgeTotal
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Vinicius Lins27–30

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 — 16 scored, Darren Elkins first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Sean Smith BleacherReport.com30–27
Cage Pages.com30–27
Severe MMA.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
John Pollock Fight Network30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–27
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com30–27
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com30–27
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com29–28
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com29–29
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Elkins · 58%29-28 Elkins · 17%30-27 Martins · 12%29-28 Martins · 5%

59 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
0.00 / 15m
8.44 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
34%
ACCURACY
n/a
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Lucas Martins

0.00takedowns / 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↑ +10.7pp
open 55.8%close 66.4%
Lucas Martins↓ −10.7pp
open 44.2%close 33.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Darren Elkins opened at 55.8% and closed at 66.4% (+10.7pp), with Lucas Martins 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 Elkins-150-21555.8%66.4%+10.7pp
Lucas Martins11019044.2%33.6%−10.7pp
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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