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Events · UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Nurmagomedov · Joel Alvarez vs Elves Brener
From the tape · 3 Aug 2024

Joel Alvarez vs Elves Brener

UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Nurmagomedov · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Joel Alvarez beat Elves Brener

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 3
Clock
3:36
LightweightMain cardReferee · Lukasz Bosacki

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 JoelAlvarez“El Fenomeno”Bandog Fight Club · Gijon, Asturias
VSOn the tape
Blue corner ElvesBrenerChute Boxe Diego Lima · Maues, Amazonas
Lightweight3 rounds3 Aug 2024
The story going in
  • Every one of Alvarez’s 5 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Carries 30 points more takedown defence than Alvarez.
23-5
Record
16-6
31
Age
−5 yr26
+5″6' 3"
Height
5' 10"
+5″77″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+37
UFC bouts
4
+33%5/5100% of wins
Finishes
2/367% of wins
Bandog Fight Club
Gym
Chute Boxe Diego Lima
Gijon, Asturias
From
Maues, Amazonas
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Joel Alvarez25 sig landed
HEAD60%15 of 24BODY36%9 of 11LEGS4%1 of 1
Elves Brener15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 14BODY0%0 of 4LEGS60%9 of 9
25 of 36
Sig.
strikes
15 of 27
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:48
Control
0:17
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 21Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Joel Alvarez31 sig landed
HEAD61%19 of 33BODY32%10 of 10LEGS6%2 of 2
Elves Brener18 sig landed
HEAD33%6 of 24BODY28%5 of 10LEGS39%7 of 8
31 of 45
Sig.
strikes
18 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:05
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 33:36 of action⚡ 1 KD AlvarezEnded 3:36
Joel Alvarez39 sig landed
HEAD85%33 of 54BODY13%5 of 5LEGS3%1 of 1
Elves Brener12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 20BODY17%2 of 2LEGS42%5 of 6
39 of 60
Sig.
strikes
12 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:03
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 19Clinch 20Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Joel Alvarez

Round
3
Clock
3:36
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Lukasz Bosacki.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Joel Alvarez

0.18takedowns / 15 min
0.18 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.99 / 15m
0.55 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.19 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
16%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Elves Brener

0.99takedowns / 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.

Joel Alvarez↑ +7.2pp
open 51.0%close 58.2%
Elves Brener↓ −7.2pp
open 49.0%close 41.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Joel Alvarez opened at 51.0% and closed at 58.2% (+7.2pp), with Elves Brener 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
Joel Alvarez-120-15951.0%58.2%+7.2pp
Elves Brener-11012749.0%41.8%−7.2pp
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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