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Events · UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega · Elias Theodorou vs Eryk Anders
From the tape · 8 Dec 2018

Elias Theodorou vs Eryk Anders

UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Result

Elias Theodorou beat Eryk Anders

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Jerin Valel

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
Blue corner ErykAnders“Ya Boi”Spartan Fitness MMA · Birmingham, Alabama
Middleweight3 rounds8 Dec 2018
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Carries 21 points more takedown defence than Theodorou.
16-3
Record
18-9
−1 yr30
Age
31
6' 1"
Height
6' 1"
75″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+49
UFC bouts
5
2/729% of wins
Finishes
+38%2/367% of wins
Mississauga, Ontario
From
Birmingham, Alabama
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
Elias Theodorou35 sig landed
HEAD20%7 of 29BODY51%18 of 26LEGS29%10 of 14
Eryk Anders8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 19BODY25%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
35 of 69
Sig.
strikes
8 of 23
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:36
Control
0:07
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 20Clinch 15Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 3Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Anders
Elias Theodorou29 sig landed
HEAD34%10 of 33BODY21%6 of 9LEGS45%13 of 17
Eryk Anders36 sig landed
HEAD83%30 of 55BODY17%6 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
29 of 59
Sig.
strikes
36 of 63
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:16
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 21Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 11Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Elias Theodorou28 sig landed
HEAD50%14 of 65BODY25%7 of 7LEGS25%7 of 11
Eryk Anders21 sig landed
HEAD86%18 of 42BODY10%2 of 4LEGS5%1 of 1
28 of 83
Sig.
strikes
21 of 47
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 23Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 3Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Split Decision

Referee · Jerin Valel
Official totals — Elias Theodorou first
JudgeTotal
Christopher Doyle29–28
Benoit Roussel28–29
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 14 scored, Elias Theodorou first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Mike Straus MMAJA29–28
Chris Connor The Fight City29–28
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com29–28
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com29–28
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28
Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–28
Nolan King FloCombat28–28
MM AJunkie.com28–28
Thiago Kuhl MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Theodorou · 31%29-27 Anders · 16%29-28 Anders · 9%30-29 Anders · 2%

64 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
1.83 / 15m
4.54 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.32 / 15m
28%
ACCURACY
25%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Eryk Anders

1.83takedowns / 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↑ +14.4pp
open 41.7%close 56.0%
Eryk Anders↓ −14.4pp
open 58.3%close 44.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Elias Theodorou opened at 41.7% and closed at 56.0% (+14.4pp), with Eryk Anders 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 Theodorou125-14241.7%56.0%+14.4pp
Eryk Anders-16511758.3%44.0%−14.4pp
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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