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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Weidman vs. Gastelum · Dennis Bermudez vs Darren Elkins
From the tape · 22 Jul 2017

Dennis Bermudez vs Darren Elkins

UFC Fight Night: Weidman vs. Gastelum · Uniondale, New York, USA
Result

Darren Elkins beat Dennis Bermudez

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightCo-MainReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

DB
Red corner DennisBermudez“The Menace”Long Island MMA · Saugerties, New York
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DarrenElkins“The Damage”Hobart, Indiana
Featherweight3 rounds22 Jul 2017
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Carries 26 points more takedown defence than Elkins.
  • Has finished 3 of 12 UFC wins.
17-9
Record
29-13
−3 yr30
Age
33
5' 6"
Height
+4″5' 10"
66″
Reach
+5″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
13
UFC bouts
+316
+8%3/933% of wins
Finishes
3/1225% of wins
Saugerties, New York
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 — 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 action1 sub attempt
Dennis Bermudez16 sig landed
HEAD38%6 of 29BODY31%5 of 6LEGS31%5 of 6
Darren Elkins15 sig landed
HEAD53%8 of 28BODY27%4 of 5LEGS20%3 of 3
16 of 41
Sig.
strikes
15 of 36
0 of 2
Take-
downs
2 of 5
0:19
Control
2:18
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 10Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 6Ground 1
Judges · this round · Bermudez firstDouglas Crosby9–10Bryan Miner9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Dennis Bermudez19 sig landed
HEAD63%12 of 38BODY26%5 of 5LEGS11%2 of 2
Darren Elkins27 sig landed
HEAD59%16 of 40BODY37%10 of 12LEGS4%1 of 1
19 of 45
Sig.
strikes
27 of 53
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 4
1:30
Control
1:19
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 10Clinch 9Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 15Ground 2
Judges · this round · Bermudez firstDouglas Crosby9–10Bryan Miner10–9Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Dennis Bermudez34 sig landed
HEAD62%21 of 59BODY24%8 of 10LEGS15%5 of 5
Darren Elkins28 sig landed
HEAD64%18 of 51BODY36%10 of 14LEGS0%0 landed
34 of 74
Sig.
strikes
28 of 65
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:49
Control
0:27
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 27Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 12Ground 0
Judges · this round · Bermudez firstDouglas Crosby10–9Bryan Miner10–9Dave Tirelli10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Dan Miragliotta
Dennis BermudezDarren Elkins
Official totals — Dennis Bermudez first
JudgeTotal
Douglas Crosby28–29
Bryan Miner2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide28–29

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, Dennis Bermudez first · unofficial

Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com28–29
Kendrick Johnson The Ring28–29
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com29–29
MM AMania.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Elkins · 45%29-28 Bermudez · 41%30-27 Bermudez · 6%30-29 Bermudez · 1%

73 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.

Dennis Bermudez

3.89takedowns / 15 min
3.89 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.87 / 15m
9.72 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.44 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
34%
1.10 / 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.

Dennis Bermudez↑ +3.6pp
open 62.1%close 65.6%
Darren Elkins↓ −3.6pp
open 37.9%close 34.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Dennis Bermudez opened at 62.1% and closed at 65.6% (+3.6pp), 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
Dennis Bermudez-190-21562.1%65.6%+3.6pp
Darren Elkins15018037.9%34.4%−3.6pp
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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