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History · 2023 · UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana · David Dvorak vs Steve Erceg
From the tape · 10 Jun 2023

David Dvorak vs Steve Erceg

UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Result

Steve Erceg beat David Dvorak

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Mitch Cadlick

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 DavidDvorak“Undertaker”All Sports Academy · Hradec Kralove
VSOn the tape
Blue corner SteveErcegWilkes Martial Arts · Myaree, Western Australia
Flyweight3 rounds10 Jun 2023
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 1.2 more significant strikes a minute than Dvorak.
20-6
Record
14-5
31
Age
−4 yr27
5' 5"
Height
+3″5' 8"
68″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
All Sports Academy
Gym
Wilkes Martial Arts
Hradec Kralove
From
Myaree, Western Australia
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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
David Dvorak20 sig landed
HEAD40%8 of 31BODY15%3 of 6LEGS45%9 of 9
Steve Erceg16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 41BODY6%1 of 5LEGS44%7 of 10
20 of 46
Sig.
strikes
16 of 56
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dvorak firstSal D'Amato10–9Jake Maxim10–9Jerin Valel9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
David Dvorak23 sig landed
HEAD52%12 of 34BODY17%4 of 7LEGS30%7 of 8
Steve Erceg18 sig landed
HEAD61%11 of 40BODY33%6 of 10LEGS6%1 of 1
23 of 49
Sig.
strikes
18 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:10
Control
0:04
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 1
Judges · this round · Dvorak firstSal D'Amato9–10Jake Maxim9–10Jerin Valel9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
David Dvorak10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 12BODY30%3 of 6LEGS10%1 of 1
Steve Erceg20 sig landed
HEAD45%9 of 20BODY45%9 of 11LEGS10%2 of 2
10 of 19
Sig.
strikes
20 of 33
1 of 3
Take-
downs
3 of 3
0:47
Control
1:25
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dvorak firstSal D'Amato9–10Jake Maxim9–10Jerin Valel9–10

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 · Mitch Cadlick
David DvorakSteve Erceg
Official totals — David Dvorak first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Jake Maxim28–29
Jerin Valel27–30

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 — 16 scored, David Dvorak first · unofficial

Bloody Elbow.com27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Ben Davis28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Jake Noecker The Scrap News28–29
Alex Behunin MMA Mania28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Edwin Ayala Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Erceg · 53%30-27 Erceg · 22%29-28 Dvorak · 19%30-27 Dvorak · 4%29-27 Erceg · 1%

79 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.

David Dvorak

0.58takedowns / 15 min
0.58 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.13 / 15m
1.93 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.04 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
28%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Steve Erceg

1.13takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

David Dvorak vs Steve Erceg.

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