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Events · UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya · Tim Elliott vs Jordan Espinosa
From the tape · 6 Mar 2021

Tim Elliott vs Jordan Espinosa

UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Tim Elliott beat Jordan Espinosa

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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.

Red corner TimElliottNext Generation Mixed Martial Arts · Lee's Summit, Missouri
VSOn the tape
JE
Blue corner JordanEspinosa“The Gamer”Luttrell-Yee MMA · Findlay, Ohio
Flyweight3 rounds6 Mar 2021
The story going in
  • 14 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Espinosa.
  • Is 9 points more accurate striking than Elliott.
  • Averages 2.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Espinosa.
22-14-1
Record
15-9
34
Age
−3 yr31
+1″5' 7"
Height
5' 6"
66″
Reach
+3″69″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+914
UFC bouts
5
1/520% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
Next Generation Mixed Martial Arts
Gym
Luttrell-Yee MMA
Lee's Summit, Missouri
From
Findlay, Ohio
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
Tim Elliott6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 6BODY67%4 of 6LEGS17%1 of 2
Jordan Espinosa7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 7BODY43%3 of 3LEGS29%2 of 3
6 of 14
Sig.
strikes
7 of 13
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:57
Control
0:00
Distance 2Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elliott firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Tim Elliott7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 5BODY43%3 of 4LEGS0%0 of 1
Jordan Espinosa1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
7 of 10
Sig.
strikes
1 of 3
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:35
Control
0:00
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elliott firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–8
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Tim Elliott12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 16BODY25%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Jordan Espinosa5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 8BODY20%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
12 of 20
Sig.
strikes
5 of 9
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:47
Control
0:00
Distance 0Clinch 2Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 3
Judges · this round · Elliott firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–8

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 · Mark Smith
Tim ElliottJordan Espinosa
Official totals — Tim Elliott first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell30–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–25

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 — 18 scored, Tim Elliott first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno30–25
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–25
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–25
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–25
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–25
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com30–26
MM AMania.com30–26
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–26
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–26
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com30–26
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–26
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges30–26
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press30–26
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-25 Elliott · 40%30-26 Elliott · 34%30-27 Elliott · 14%30-24 Elliott · 6%30-23 Elliott · 2%

50 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.

Tim Elliott

3.61takedowns / 15 min
3.61 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.75 / 15m
8.02 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.68 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
28%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Jordan Espinosa

0.75takedowns / 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.

Tim Elliott↑ +1.8pp
open 54.3%close 56.1%
Jordan Espinosa↓ −1.8pp
open 45.7%close 43.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tim Elliott opened at 54.3% and closed at 56.1% (+1.8pp), with Jordan Espinosa 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
Tim Elliott-130-14354.3%56.1%+1.8pp
Jordan Espinosa11011745.7%43.9%−1.8pp
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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