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History · 2015 · UFC Fight Night: Holohan vs Smolka · Bubba Bush vs Garreth McLellan
From the tape · 24 Oct 2015

Bubba Bush vs Garreth McLellan

UFC Fight Night: Holohan vs Smolka · Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Result

Garreth McLellan beat Bubba Bush

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 3
Clock
4:58
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Piotr Michalak

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.

BB
Red corner BubbaBush“The Fightin' Texas Aggie”Brazos Valley MMA · College Station, Texas
VSOn the tape
GM
Blue corner GarrethMcLellan“Soldier Boy”FightFit Militia · Johannesburg, Gauteng
Middleweight3 rounds24 Oct 2015
The story going in
  • Carries 26 points more takedown defence than McLellan.
  • Lands 2.9 more significant strikes a minute than Bush.
8-3
Record
13-6
−3 yr30
Age
33
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
1
UFC bouts
1
Brazos Valley MMA
Gym
FightFit Militia
College Station, Texas
From
Johannesburg, Gauteng
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Bubba Bush7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 8BODY14%1 of 1LEGS43%3 of 3
Garreth McLellan1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 2
7 of 12
Sig.
strikes
1 of 7
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:20
Control
0:01
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Bubba Bush0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 of 1

No significant strikes landed — 1 thrown

Garreth McLellan52 sig landed
HEAD88%46 of 64BODY12%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
0 of 1
Sig.
strikes
52 of 70
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:37
Control
4:01
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 51
Round 34:58 of actionEnded 4:58
Bubba Bush1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 1
Garreth McLellan44 sig landed
HEAD93%41 of 53BODY7%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 1
Sig.
strikes
44 of 56
1 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 5
1:00
Control
3:46
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 43

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

Garreth McLellan

Round
3
Clock
4:58
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: Piotr Michalak.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Bubba Bush

2.82takedowns / 15 min
2.82 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.15 / 15m
5.64 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.23 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
22%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Garreth McLellan

1.15takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Bubba Bush↑ +8.5pp
open 66.1%close 74.6%
Garreth McLellan↓ −8.5pp
open 33.9%close 25.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Bubba Bush opened at 66.1% and closed at 74.6% (+8.5pp), with Garreth McLellan 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
Bubba Bush-245-34266.1%74.6%+8.5pp
Garreth McLellan17528033.9%25.4%−8.5pp
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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