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Events · UFC Fight Night: Lemos vs. Andrade · Preston Parsons vs Evan Elder
From the tape · 23 Apr 2022

Preston Parsons vs Evan Elder

UFC Fight Night: Lemos vs. Andrade · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Preston Parsons beat Evan Elder

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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 PrestonParsons“Pressure”Elevate MMA · Jacksonville Beach, Florida
VSOn the tape
Blue corner EvanElder“The Phenom”Syndicate MMA · Stockton, California
Welterweight3 rounds23 Apr 2022
The story going in
  • Averages 3.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Elder.
  • Lands 2.1 more significant strikes a minute than Parsons.
11-6
Record
10-2
26
Age
−1 yr25
+1″5' 11"
Height
5' 10"
71″
Reach
+1″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
Elevate MMA
Gym
Syndicate MMA
Jacksonville Beach, Florida
From
Stockton, California
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 action2 sub attempts
Preston Parsons16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 24BODY12%2 of 3LEGS6%1 of 1
Evan Elder12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 15BODY50%6 of 6LEGS8%1 of 1
16 of 28
Sig.
strikes
12 of 22
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:16
Control
0:35
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Parsons firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Rick Winter10–9
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Preston Parsons16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 21BODY12%2 of 2LEGS12%2 of 2
Evan Elder7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 11BODY29%2 of 2LEGS29%2 of 2
16 of 25
Sig.
strikes
7 of 15
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:55
Control
0:52
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Parsons firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Rick Winter10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Preston Parsons43 sig landed
HEAD81%35 of 49BODY12%5 of 6LEGS7%3 of 4
Evan Elder8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 17BODY38%3 of 4LEGS12%1 of 2
43 of 59
Sig.
strikes
8 of 23
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:37
Control
0:20
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 5Ground 26
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Parsons firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy10–8Rick Winter10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Preston ParsonsEvan Elder
Official totals — Preston Parsons first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide30–26
Rick Winter2.1 avg spread · 51% 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 — 12 scored, Preston Parsons first · unofficial

MM AMania.com30–26
MM AJunkie.com30–26
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com30–26
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Marcel Dorff Eurosport Nederland30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Parsons · 43%30-26 Parsons · 43%30-25 Parsons · 14%

21 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.

Preston Parsons

3.46takedowns / 15 min
3.46 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.48 / 15m
9.61 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.20 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
15%
2.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Evan Elder

0.48takedowns / 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.

Preston Parsons↑ +8.7pp
open 50.0%close 58.7%
Evan Elder↓ −8.7pp
open 50.0%close 41.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Preston Parsons opened at 50.0% and closed at 58.7% (+8.7pp), with Evan Elder 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
Preston Parsons-110-15850.0%58.7%+8.7pp
Evan Elder-11013250.0%41.3%−8.7pp
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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