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History · 2019 · UFC 240: Holloway vs. Edgar · Olivier Aubin-Mercier vs Arman Tsarukyan
From the tape · 27 Jul 2019

Olivier Aubin-Mercier vs Arman Tsarukyan

UFC 240: Holloway vs. Edgar · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Result

Arman Tsarukyan beat Olivier Aubin-Mercier

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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 ArmanTsarukyan“Ahalkalakets”American Top Team · Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Krai
Lightweight3 rounds27 Jul 2019
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 1.4 more significant strikes a minute than Aubin-Mercier.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
11-5
Record
23-3
30
Age
−8 yr22
+2″5' 9"
Height
5' 7"
70″
Reach
+2″72″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1011
UFC bouts
1
Boucherville, Quebec
From
Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Krai
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
Olivier Aubin-Mercier4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 5BODY25%1 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
Arman Tsarukyan12 sig landed
HEAD25%3 of 13BODY25%3 of 4LEGS50%6 of 8
4 of 7
Sig.
strikes
12 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 7
0:00
Control
3:35
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 3Ground 7
Judges · this round · Aubin-Mercier firstThomas Collins9–10Chris Lee9–10Brian Puccillo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Olivier Aubin-Mercier12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 20BODY42%5 of 9LEGS8%1 of 1
Arman Tsarukyan14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 36BODY29%4 of 10LEGS14%2 of 2
12 of 30
Sig.
strikes
14 of 48
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:33
Control
0:30
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aubin-Mercier firstThomas Collins10–9Chris Lee10–9Brian Puccillo10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Olivier Aubin-Mercier7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 9BODY29%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Arman Tsarukyan21 sig landed
HEAD81%17 of 28BODY19%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 11
Sig.
strikes
21 of 32
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:28
Control
3:46
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 15
Judges · this round · Aubin-Mercier firstThomas Collins9–10Chris Lee9–10Brian Puccillo9–10

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 · Marc Goddard
Olivier Aubin-MercierArman Tsarukyan
Official totals — Olivier Aubin-Mercier first
JudgeTotal
Thomas Collins28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Brian Puccillo1.8 avg spread · 36% wide28–29

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 — 16 scored, Olivier Aubin-Mercier first · unofficial

Shawn Bitter Cageside Press28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport28–29
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Keith Shillan FanSided.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Ant Walker Sherdog.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Tsarukyan · 66%29-28 Aubin-Mercier · 22%30-27 Tsarukyan · 6%29-27 Tsarukyan · 3%

67 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
3.26 / 15m
7.15 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.81 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
37%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Arman Tsarukyan

3.26takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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↑ +10.8pp
open 29.0%close 39.8%
Arman Tsarukyan↓ −10.8pp
open 71.0%close 60.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Olivier Aubin-Mercier opened at 29.0% and closed at 39.8% (+10.8pp), with Arman Tsarukyan 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-Mercier22514229.0%39.8%+10.8pp
Arman Tsarukyan-305-16671.0%60.2%−10.8pp
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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