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History · 2024 · UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria · Oban Elliott vs Val Woodburn
From the tape · 17 Feb 2024

Oban Elliott vs Val Woodburn

UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria · Anaheim, California, USA
Result

Oban Elliott beat Val Woodburn

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Jonathan Romero

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 ObanElliott“The Welsh Gangster”Shore MMA · Merthyr Tydfil
VSOn the tape
VW
Blue corner ValWoodburn“The Animal”
Welterweight3 rounds17 Feb 2024
12-5
Record
7-2
−4 yr26
Age
30
+4″6' 0"
Height
5' 8"
72″
Reach
+2″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
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⚡ 1 KD Woodburn
Oban Elliott28 sig landed
HEAD86%24 of 36BODY7%2 of 2LEGS7%2 of 2
Val Woodburn5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 17BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
28 of 40
Sig.
strikes
5 of 17
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:09
Control
0:12
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 22
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Elliott firstMichael Bell10–9Eliot Kelly9–10Chris Leben10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Oban Elliott23 sig landed
HEAD83%19 of 33BODY17%4 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Val Woodburn6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 17BODY17%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
23 of 40
Sig.
strikes
6 of 20
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:40
Control
0:19
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elliott firstMichael Bell10–9Eliot Kelly10–9Chris Leben10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Oban Elliott19 sig landed
HEAD89%17 of 27BODY5%1 of 2LEGS5%1 of 2
Val Woodburn12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 21BODY8%1 of 1LEGS17%2 of 2
19 of 31
Sig.
strikes
12 of 24
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:09
Control
1:25
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 4Ground 1
Judges · this round · Elliott firstMichael Bell10–9Eliot Kelly10–9Chris Leben10–9

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 · Jonathan Romero
Oban ElliottVal Woodburn
Official totals — Oban Elliott first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell30–27
Eliot Kelly29–28
Chris Leben30–27

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, Oban Elliott first · unofficial

Jake Noecker Cageside Press30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Bloody Elbow.com30–27
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Elliott · 82%30-26 Elliott · 9%29-28 Elliott · 7%29-28 Woodburn · 2%

44 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.

Oban Elliott

1.52takedowns / 15 min
1.52 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.92 / 15m
3.80 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.92 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
100%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Val Woodburn

1.92takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Oban Elliott↑ +13.0pp
open 60.9%close 73.9%
Val Woodburn↓ −13.0pp
open 39.1%close 26.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Oban Elliott opened at 60.9% and closed at 73.9% (+13.0pp), with Val Woodburn 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
Oban Elliott-175-33660.9%73.9%+13.0pp
Val Woodburn14526839.1%26.1%−13.0pp
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% · dated 2024-02-18 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · 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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