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History · 2019 · UFC Fight Night: Iaquinta vs. Cowboy · Derek Brunson vs Elias Theodorou
From the tape · 4 May 2019

Derek Brunson vs Elias Theodorou

UFC Fight Night: Iaquinta vs. Cowboy · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Result

Derek Brunson beat Elias Theodorou

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightCo-MainReferee · Todd Ronald Anderson

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.

DB
Red corner DerekBrunson“The One”Kill Cliff FC · Wilmington, North Carolina
VSOn the tape
ET
Blue corner EliasTheodorou“The Spartan”Mississauga, Ontario
Middleweight3 rounds4 May 2019
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 7 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 8 UFC wins.
23-9
Record
16-3
35
Age
−5 yr30
6' 1"
Height
6' 1"
+2″77″
Reach
75″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+414
UFC bouts
10
+53%7/978% of wins
Finishes
2/825% of wins
Wilmington, North Carolina
From
Mississauga, Ontario
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
Derek Brunson14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 18BODY14%2 of 4LEGS7%1 of 2
Elias Theodorou16 sig landed
HEAD6%1 of 17BODY69%11 of 12LEGS25%4 of 13
14 of 24
Sig.
strikes
16 of 42
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:23
Control
0:09
Distance 6Clinch 3Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Brunson firstEric Colón10–9David Therien10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Derek Brunson22 sig landed
HEAD45%10 of 21BODY27%6 of 7LEGS27%6 of 9
Elias Theodorou25 sig landed
HEAD20%5 of 33BODY36%9 of 13LEGS44%11 of 22
22 of 37
Sig.
strikes
25 of 68
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:33
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Brunson firstEric Colón9–10David Therien9–10Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Derek Brunson20 sig landed
HEAD65%13 of 23BODY15%3 of 6LEGS20%4 of 4
Elias Theodorou24 sig landed
HEAD42%10 of 38BODY29%7 of 9LEGS29%7 of 13
20 of 33
Sig.
strikes
24 of 60
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:21
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Brunson firstEric Colón10–9David Therien10–9Dave Tirelli10–9

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 · Todd Ronald Anderson
Derek BrunsonElias Theodorou
Official totals — Derek Brunson first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
David Therien2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide30–27

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 — 15 scored, Derek Brunson first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Peter Harrison Wrestling Observer30–27
Keith Shillan FanSided.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com29–28
Adam Martin Sherdog.com29–28
Ant Walker Sherdog.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Mike Straus MMAJA28–29
Eddie Mercado BloodyElbow.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Brunson · 51%30-27 Brunson · 21%29-28 Theodorou · 11%30-28 Brunson · 6%

53 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.

Derek Brunson

3.14takedowns / 15 min
3.14 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.27 / 15m
9.52 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.54 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
28%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Elias Theodorou

1.27takedowns / 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.

Derek Brunson→ no move
open 50.0%close 49.6%
Elias Theodorou→ no move
open 50.0%close 50.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Derek Brunson opened at 50.0% and closed at 49.6% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Derek Brunson-120-10850.0%49.6%−0.4pp
Elias Theodorou-120-11250.0%50.4%+0.4pp
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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