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History · 2024 · UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 2 · Oban Elliott vs Preston Parsons
From the tape · 27 Jul 2024

Oban Elliott vs Preston Parsons

UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 2 · Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Result

Oban Elliott beat Preston Parsons

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Daniel Movahedi

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
Blue corner PrestonParsons“Pressure”Elevate MMA · Jacksonville Beach, Florida
Welterweight3 rounds27 Jul 2024
12-5
Record
11-6
−3 yr26
Age
29
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
+1″72″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+34
0/10% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
Shore MMA
Gym
Elevate MMA
Merthyr Tydfil
From
Jacksonville Beach, Florida
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
Oban Elliott9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 32BODY22%2 of 2LEGS11%1 of 1
Preston Parsons12 sig landed
HEAD25%3 of 21BODY17%2 of 5LEGS58%7 of 8
9 of 35
Sig.
strikes
12 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:56
Control
0:22
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elliott firstDerek Cleary10–9Mark Collett9–10David Lethaby10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Oban Elliott13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 42BODY15%2 of 2LEGS15%2 of 2
Preston Parsons16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 18BODY12%2 of 4LEGS44%7 of 7
13 of 46
Sig.
strikes
16 of 29
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 4
1:54
Control
0:18
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elliott firstDerek Cleary10–9Mark Collett10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Oban Elliott22 sig landed
HEAD95%21 of 42BODY0%0 of 1LEGS5%1 of 1
Preston Parsons8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 27BODY0%0 landedLEGS38%3 of 3
22 of 44
Sig.
strikes
8 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
1:06
Control
1:18
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elliott firstDerek Cleary10–9Mark Collett10–9David Lethaby10–9

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 · Daniel Movahedi
Oban ElliottPreston Parsons
Official totals — Oban Elliott first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% 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 — 13 scored, Oban Elliott first · unofficial

Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Alex Behunin MMA Mania30–27
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com30–27
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw29–28
Jake Noecker Cageside Press29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Elliott · 49%30-27 Elliott · 35%29-28 Parsons · 16%

37 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
3.46 / 15m
3.80 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.61 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
36%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.30 / 15m

Preston Parsons

3.46takedowns / 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↓ −9.1pp
open 49.0%close 39.9%
Preston Parsons↑ +9.1pp
open 51.0%close 60.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Oban Elliott opened at 49.0% and closed at 39.9% (−9.1pp), with Preston Parsons 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-11013849.0%39.9%−9.1pp
Preston Parsons-120-17251.0%60.1%+9.1pp
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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