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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Tuivasa · Elias Garcia vs Kai Kara-France
From the tape · 1 Dec 2018

Elias Garcia vs Kai Kara-France

UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Tuivasa · Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Result

Kai Kara-France beat Elias Garcia

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Greg Kleynjans

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.

EG
Red corner EliasGarciaRoufusport · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
VSOn the tape
KK
Blue corner KaiKara-France“Don't Blink”City Kickboxing · Auckland
Flyweight3 rounds1 Dec 2018
6-2
Record
25-12
26
Age
−1 yr25
+1″5' 5"
Height
5' 4"
67″
Reach
+2″69″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Roufusport
Gym
City Kickboxing
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
From
Auckland
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⚡ 1 KD Garcia
Elias Garcia5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS20%1 of 2
Kai Kara-France23 sig landed
HEAD87%20 of 46BODY13%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 21
Sig.
strikes
23 of 49
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
3:35
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 15
Judges · this round · Garcia firstAnthony Dimitriou9–10Evan Field9–10Kon Papaioannou9–10
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Elias Garcia6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 19BODY0%0 of 1LEGS17%1 of 2
Kai Kara-France38 sig landed
HEAD92%35 of 60BODY8%3 of 4LEGS0%0 of 1
6 of 22
Sig.
strikes
38 of 65
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:07
Control
3:56
0
Knock-
downs
0
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 32
Judges · this round · Garcia firstAnthony Dimitriou8–10Evan Field9–10Kon Papaioannou8–10
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Kara-FranceEnded 5:00
Elias Garcia5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 29BODY20%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Kai Kara-France25 sig landed
HEAD76%19 of 57BODY12%3 of 4LEGS12%3 of 3
5 of 30
Sig.
strikes
25 of 64
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:19
Control
2:01
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 6
Judges · this round · Garcia firstAnthony Dimitriou8–10Evan Field8–10Kon Papaioannou8–10

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 · Greg Kleynjans
Elias GarciaKai Kara-France
Official totals — Elias Garcia first
JudgeTotal
Anthony Dimitriou2.4 avg spread · 53% wide25–30
Evan Field2.2 avg spread · 48% wide26–30
Kon Papaioannou2.1 avg spread · 42% wide25–30

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.

Media cards — 12 scored, Elias Garcia first · unofficial

Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com25–30
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com25–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com25–30
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com25–30
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com25–30
MM AJunkie.com25–30
MM AMania.com25–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno26–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com26–30
Felipe Freitas MMABrasil.com.br26–30
Sherdog.com26–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Kara-France · 54%30-25 Kara-France · 46%

11 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 Garcia

0.68takedowns / 15 min
0.68 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.56 / 15m
4.86 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.87 / 15m
14%
ACCURACY
30%
1.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Kai Kara-France

0.56takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

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 Garciaclose only
no opening line on recordclose 23.4%
Kai Kara-Franceclose only
no opening line on recordclose 76.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Elias Garcia 23.4%, Kai Kara-France 76.6%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Elias Garcia25531423.4%
Kai Kara-France-37976.6%
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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for Kai Kara France, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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