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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Till · Elias Theodorou vs Trevor Smith
From the tape · 27 May 2018

Elias Theodorou vs Trevor Smith

UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Till · Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Result

Elias Theodorou beat Trevor Smith

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Daniel Movahedi

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
TS
Blue corner TrevorSmith“Hot Sauce”Ring Demon Jiu-Jitsu · Tukwila, Washington
Middleweight3 rounds27 May 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Is 13 points more accurate striking than Theodorou.
16-3
Record
15-10
−8 yr29
Age
37
6' 1"
Height
+2″6' 3"
75″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
8
UFC bouts
+19
+33%2/633% of wins
Finishes
0/50% of wins
Mississauga, Ontario
From
Tukwila, Washington
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 Theodorou37 sig landed
HEAD43%16 of 31BODY54%20 of 25LEGS3%1 of 1
Trevor Smith13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 16BODY54%7 of 8LEGS8%1 of 1
37 of 57
Sig.
strikes
13 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:05
Control
1:51
Distance 8Clinch 28Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Theodorou firstBen Cartlidge10–9David Lethaby10–9Paul Sutherland10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Elias Theodorou23 sig landed
HEAD52%12 of 29BODY35%8 of 15LEGS13%3 of 3
Trevor Smith19 sig landed
HEAD42%8 of 18BODY42%8 of 11LEGS16%3 of 3
23 of 47
Sig.
strikes
19 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
1:26
Control
1:21
Distance 8Clinch 15Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 10Ground 3
Judges · this round · Theodorou firstBen Cartlidge10–9David Lethaby10–9Paul Sutherland10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Elias Theodorou17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 23BODY29%5 of 7LEGS18%3 of 4
Trevor Smith9 sig landed
HEAD11%1 of 14BODY67%6 of 8LEGS22%2 of 2
17 of 34
Sig.
strikes
9 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
1:33
Control
1:09
Distance 7Clinch 8Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Theodorou firstBen Cartlidge10–9David Lethaby10–9Paul Sutherland9–10

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 · Daniel Movahedi
Elias TheodorouTrevor Smith
Official totals — Elias Theodorou first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Paul Sutherland2.2 avg spread · 52% wide29–28

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 Connor The Fight City30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Thiago Kuhl MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Theodorou · 47%29-28 Theodorou · 35%30-28 Theodorou · 12%29-28 Smith · 6%

17 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
1.70 / 15m
4.54 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.31 / 15m
28%
ACCURACY
32%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Trevor Smith

1.70takedowns / 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↑ +3.6pp
open 73.1%close 76.7%
Trevor Smith↓ −3.6pp
open 26.9%close 23.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Elias Theodorou opened at 73.1% and closed at 76.7% (+3.6pp), with Trevor Smith 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-350-38273.1%76.7%+3.6pp
Trevor Smith25031526.9%23.3%−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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