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Events · UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson 2 · Mirsad Bektic vs Darren Elkins
From the tape · 4 Mar 2017

Mirsad Bektic vs Darren Elkins

UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Darren Elkins beat Mirsad Bektic

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 3
Clock
3:19
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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.

MB
Red corner MirsadBekticTristar Gym · Lincoln, Nebraska
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DarrenElkins“The Damage”Hobart, Indiana
Featherweight3 rounds4 Mar 2017
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 11 UFC wins.
13-4
Record
29-13
−6 yr26
Age
32
5' 8"
Height
+2″5' 10"
70″
Reach
+1″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+1115
+32%2/450% of wins
Finishes
2/1118% of wins
Lincoln, Nebraska
From
Hobart, Indiana
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 action
Mirsad Bektic39 sig landed
HEAD97%38 of 55BODY3%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Darren Elkins3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 11BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
39 of 57
Sig.
strikes
3 of 11
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:22
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 33
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Mirsad Bektic16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 17BODY19%3 of 3LEGS6%1 of 2
Darren Elkins13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 13BODY46%6 of 6LEGS15%2 of 2
16 of 22
Sig.
strikes
13 of 21
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:27
Control
0:38
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 7Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 6Ground 7
Round 33:19 of action⚡ 1 KD Elkins1 sub attemptEnded 3:19
Mirsad Bektic5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Darren Elkins12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 21BODY33%4 of 4LEGS17%2 of 2
5 of 19
Sig.
strikes
12 of 27
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:16
Control
0:44
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 4Ground 5

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

Darren Elkins

Round
3
Clock
3:19
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: Chris Tognoni.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Mirsad Bektic

3.98takedowns / 15 min
3.98 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.87 / 15m
7.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.44 / 15m
52%
ACCURACY
34%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Darren Elkins

2.87takedowns / 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.

Mirsad Bektic↑ +10.8pp
open 73.1%close 84.0%
Darren Elkins↓ −10.8pp
open 26.9%close 16.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mirsad Bektic opened at 73.1% and closed at 84.0% (+10.8pp), with Darren Elkins 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
Mirsad Bektic-350-69773.1%84.0%+10.8pp
Darren Elkins25049926.9%16.0%−10.8pp
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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