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Events · UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Browne · Elias Theodorou vs Cezar Ferreira
From the tape · 19 Feb 2017

Elias Theodorou vs Cezar Ferreira

UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Browne · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Result

Elias Theodorou beat Cezar Ferreira

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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.

ET
Red corner EliasTheodorou“The Spartan”Mississauga, Ontario
VSOn the tape
CF
Blue corner CezarFerreira“Mutante”MMA Masters · Ibitinga, Sao Paulo
Middleweight3 rounds19 Feb 2017
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Lands 2.3 more significant strikes a minute than Ferreira.
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
16-3
Record
13-8
−4 yr28
Age
32
6' 1"
Height
6' 1"
75″
Reach
+3″78″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
5
UFC bouts
+510
+21%2/450% of wins
Finishes
2/729% of wins
Mississauga, Ontario
From
Ibitinga, Sao Paulo
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
Elias Theodorou12 sig landed
HEAD17%2 of 33BODY42%5 of 10LEGS42%5 of 8
Cezar Ferreira9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 14BODY33%3 of 3LEGS22%2 of 2
12 of 51
Sig.
strikes
9 of 19
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:39
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Theodorou firstRobert MacAvoy10–9Don Robinson9–10Craig Smith9–10
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Elias Theodorou15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 25BODY7%1 of 3LEGS13%2 of 3
Cezar Ferreira1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 5BODY0%0 of 2LEGS100%1 of 2
15 of 31
Sig.
strikes
1 of 9
1 of 2
Take-
downs
2 of 3
1:44
Control
0:49
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Theodorou firstRobert MacAvoy10–9Don Robinson10–9Craig Smith10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Elias Theodorou11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 22BODY18%2 of 3LEGS45%5 of 9
Cezar Ferreira1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 7BODY0%0 of 1LEGS100%1 of 2
11 of 34
Sig.
strikes
1 of 10
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:16
Control
0:57
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Theodorou firstRobert MacAvoy10–9Don Robinson10–9Craig Smith10–9

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 · Keith Peterson
Elias TheodorouCezar Ferreira
Official totals — Elias Theodorou first
JudgeTotal
Robert MacAvoy30–27
Don Robinson29–28
Craig Smith29–28

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 — 17 scored, Elias Theodorou first · unofficial

Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
John Pollock Fight Network29–28
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com28–29
Brad Ritcey Wrestling Observer28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com28–29
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–30
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Ferreira · 51%29-28 Theodorou · 27%30-27 Ferreira · 9%30-27 Theodorou · 4%

85 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.

Elias Theodorou

1.27takedowns / 15 min
1.27 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.69 / 15m
4.54 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.08 / 15m
28%
ACCURACY
53%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Cezar Ferreira

2.69takedowns / 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.

Elias Theodorou↓ −6.3pp
open 55.8%close 49.5%
Cezar Ferreira↑ +6.3pp
open 44.2%close 50.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Elias Theodorou opened at 55.8% and closed at 49.5% (−6.3pp), with Cezar Ferreira 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
Elias Theodorou-150-10755.8%49.5%−6.3pp
Cezar Ferreira110-11244.2%50.5%+6.3pp
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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