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Events · UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Ivanov · Darren Elkins vs Alexander Volkanovski
From the tape · 14 Jul 2018

Darren Elkins vs Alexander Volkanovski

UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Ivanov · Boise, Idaho, USA
Result

Alexander Volkanovski beat Darren Elkins

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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
Blue corner AlexanderVolkanovski“The Great”Windang, New South Wales
Featherweight3 rounds14 Jul 2018
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
29-13
Record
28-4
34
Age
−5 yr29
+4″5' 10"
Height
5' 6"
71″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1418
UFC bouts
4
4/1429% of wins
Finishes
+21%2/450% of wins
Hobart, Indiana
From
Windang, New South Wales
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⚡ 2 KD Volkanovski3 sub attempts
Darren Elkins22 sig landed
HEAD77%17 of 38BODY18%4 of 5LEGS5%1 of 1
Alexander Volkanovski32 sig landed
HEAD69%22 of 32BODY16%5 of 6LEGS16%5 of 5
22 of 44
Sig.
strikes
32 of 43
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:46
Control
1:10
0
Knock-
downs
2
0
Sub
attempts
3
Distance 19Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 9Ground 1
Judges · this round · Elkins firstScott Marker9–10Marcos Rosales9–10Tim Turner9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Darren Elkins32 sig landed
HEAD78%25 of 52BODY22%7 of 12LEGS0%0 landed
Alexander Volkanovski26 sig landed
HEAD69%18 of 31BODY15%4 of 5LEGS15%4 of 4
32 of 64
Sig.
strikes
26 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:00
Control
0:44
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 28Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elkins firstScott Marker10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Tim Turner9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Darren Elkins28 sig landed
HEAD86%24 of 57BODY14%4 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Alexander Volkanovski42 sig landed
HEAD86%36 of 55BODY5%2 of 2LEGS10%4 of 4
28 of 64
Sig.
strikes
42 of 61
0 of 3
Take-
downs
2 of 6
0:13
Control
1:31
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 20Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 35Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elkins firstScott Marker9–10Marcos Rosales9–10Tim Turner9–10

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 · Jason Herzog
Darren ElkinsAlexander Volkanovski
Official totals — Darren Elkins first
JudgeTotal
Scott Marker28–29
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide28–29
Tim Turner27–30

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.

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Volkanovski · 59%30-27 Volkanovski · 20%29-27 Volkanovski · 10%29-28 Volkanovski · 8%30-25 Volkanovski · 1%

71 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
1.63 / 15m
8.44 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.79 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
34%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Alexander Volkanovski

1.63takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Darren Elkins vs Alexander Volkanovski.

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