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History · 2016 · UFC 196: McGregor vs Diaz · Darren Elkins vs Chas Skelly
From the tape · 5 Mar 2016

Darren Elkins vs Chas Skelly

UFC 196: McGregor vs Diaz · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Darren Elkins beat Chas Skelly

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

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
CS
Blue corner ChasSkelly“The Scrapper”Kill Cliff FC · Keller, Texas
Featherweight3 rounds5 Mar 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • 13 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Skelly.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
29-13
Record
19-3
31
Age
−1 yr30
5' 10"
Height
+1″5' 11"
71″
Reach
+1″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+813
UFC bouts
5
2/922% of wins
Finishes
+53%3/475% of wins
Hobart, Indiana
From
Keller, Texas
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 action2 sub attempts
Darren Elkins36 sig landed
HEAD61%22 of 43BODY36%13 of 14LEGS3%1 of 2
Chas Skelly22 sig landed
HEAD82%18 of 37BODY18%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
36 of 59
Sig.
strikes
22 of 42
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:55
Control
0:33
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 11Clinch 23Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 5Ground 1
Judges · this round · Elkins firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Darren Elkins40 sig landed
HEAD68%27 of 36BODY25%10 of 10LEGS8%3 of 3
Chas Skelly3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
40 of 49
Sig.
strikes
3 of 8
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:21
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 4Ground 33
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Elkins firstAdalaide Byrd10–8Sal D'Amato10–8Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Darren Elkins28 sig landed
HEAD86%24 of 39BODY11%3 of 5LEGS4%1 of 1
Chas Skelly2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 20BODY0%0 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
28 of 45
Sig.
strikes
2 of 22
4 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:27
Control
0:29
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 5Ground 13
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elkins firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9

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 · Yves Lavigne
Darren ElkinsChas Skelly
Official totals — Darren Elkins first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–26
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27

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 — 18 scored, Darren Elkins first · unofficial

Adrian MacNair MMAMania.com30–26
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–27
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–27
Pundit Arena.com29–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–27
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com29–28
Dana Becker FightLine.com29–28
John Pollock Fight Network29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Elkins · 34%29-28 Elkins · 34%29-27 Elkins · 17%30-26 Elkins · 14%

29 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
1.74 / 15m
8.44 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.12 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
34%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.30 / 15m

Chas Skelly

1.74takedowns / 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↓ −10.1pp
open 48.1%close 38.0%
Chas Skelly↑ +10.1pp
open 51.9%close 62.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Darren Elkins opened at 48.1% and closed at 38.0% (−10.1pp), with Chas Skelly 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-11015548.1%38.0%−10.1pp
Chas Skelly-130-17751.9%62.0%+10.1pp
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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