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Events · UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega · Olivier Aubin-Mercier vs Gilbert Burns
From the tape · 8 Dec 2018

Olivier Aubin-Mercier vs Gilbert Burns

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

Gilbert Burns beat Olivier Aubin-Mercier

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

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.

OA
Red corner OlivierAubin-Mercier“The Canadian Gangster”Boucherville, Quebec
VSOn the tape
Blue corner GilbertBurns“Durinho”Kill Cliff FC · Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro
Lightweight3 rounds8 Dec 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Carries 17 points more takedown defence than Burns.
11-5
Record
22-10
−3 yr29
Age
32
5' 9"
Height
+1″5' 10"
70″
Reach
+1″71″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+110
UFC bouts
9
5/771% of wins
Finishes
+12%5/683% of wins
Boucherville, Quebec
From
Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro
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 Burns
Olivier Aubin-Mercier3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 12BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Gilbert Burns24 sig landed
HEAD88%21 of 30BODY12%3 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
3 of 12
Sig.
strikes
24 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:07
Control
3:16
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 18
Judges · this round · Aubin-Mercier firstEric Colón9–10Declan Woods9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Olivier Aubin-Mercier25 sig landed
HEAD92%23 of 52BODY8%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Gilbert Burns17 sig landed
HEAD47%8 of 39BODY35%6 of 7LEGS18%3 of 4
25 of 56
Sig.
strikes
17 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:18
Control
0:19
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 24Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Aubin-Mercier firstEric Colón9–10Declan Woods9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Olivier Aubin-Mercier12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 24BODY25%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Gilbert Burns35 sig landed
HEAD80%28 of 52BODY20%7 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
12 of 28
Sig.
strikes
35 of 59
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:26
Control
2:43
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 4Ground 14
Judges · this round · Aubin-Mercier firstEric Colón9–10Declan Woods9–10

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 · Yves Lavigne
Olivier Aubin-MercierGilbert Burns
Official totals — Olivier Aubin-Mercier first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Declan Woods27–30

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 — 17 scored, Olivier Aubin-Mercier first · unofficial

Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com26–30
Sherdog.com26–30
Chris Connor The Fight City26–30
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com26–30
Thiago Kuhl MMABrasil.com.br26–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com26–30
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com27–30
Mike Straus MMAJA27–30
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com27–30
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport27–30
Nolan King FloCombat27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
John Pollock POST Wrestling27–30
Matthew Wells FanSided.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com27–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Burns · 44%30-26 Burns · 38%30-24 Burns · 6%29-28 Burns · 6%30-25 Burns · 6%

16 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.

Olivier Aubin-Mercier

2.36takedowns / 15 min
2.36 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.04 / 15m
7.15 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.83 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
35%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Gilbert Burns

2.04takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Olivier Aubin-Mercier↑ +9.2pp
open 47.1%close 56.4%
Gilbert Burns↓ −9.2pp
open 52.9%close 43.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Olivier Aubin-Mercier opened at 47.1% and closed at 56.4% (+9.2pp), with Gilbert Burns 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
Olivier Aubin-Mercier-105-14447.1%56.4%+9.2pp
Gilbert Burns-13511952.9%43.6%−9.2pp
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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