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History · 2024 · UFC Fight Night: Hernandez vs. Pereira · Darren Elkins vs Daniel Pineda
From the tape · 19 Oct 2024

Darren Elkins vs Daniel Pineda

UFC Fight Night: Hernandez vs. Pereira · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Darren Elkins beat Daniel Pineda

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain 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 DarrenElkins“The Damage”Hobart, Indiana
VSOn the tape
DP
Blue corner DanielPineda“The Pit”4oz. Fight Club · Houston, Texas
Featherweight3 rounds19 Oct 2024
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 18 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • 28 UFC bouts deep — 15 more than Pineda.
  • Every one of Pineda’s 5 UFC wins came inside the distance.
29-13
Record
28-17
40
Age
−1 yr39
+3″5' 10"
Height
5' 7"
+2″71″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1528
UFC bouts
13
7/1839% of wins
Finishes
+61%5/5100% of wins
Hobart, Indiana
From
Houston, Texas
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
Darren Elkins3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Daniel Pineda13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 13BODY8%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
3 of 8
Sig.
strikes
13 of 15
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:07
Control
2:07
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 12
Judges · this round · Elkins firstBen Cartlidge9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Darren Elkins19 sig landed
HEAD79%15 of 42BODY21%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Daniel Pineda12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 15BODY42%5 of 6LEGS8%1 of 3
19 of 47
Sig.
strikes
12 of 24
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:24
Control
0:05
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Elkins firstBen Cartlidge10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Darren Elkins17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 28BODY29%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Daniel Pineda6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 10BODY17%1 of 2LEGS33%2 of 2
17 of 33
Sig.
strikes
6 of 14
0 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:02
Control
0:50
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elkins firstBen Cartlidge10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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
Darren ElkinsDaniel Pineda
Official totals — Darren Elkins first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide29–28

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, Darren Elkins first · unofficial

Jake Noecker Cageside Press29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Elkins · 79%29-28 Pineda · 21%

28 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.

Darren Elkins

2.87takedowns / 15 min
2.87 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.42 / 15m
8.44 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.92 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
24%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.50 / 15m

Daniel Pineda

1.42takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Darren Elkins↑ +15.9pp
open 42.8%close 58.6%
Daniel Pineda↓ −15.9pp
open 57.2%close 41.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Darren Elkins opened at 42.8% and closed at 58.6% (+15.9pp), with Daniel Pineda 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
Darren Elkins124-15942.8%58.6%+15.9pp
Daniel Pineda-14813157.2%41.4%−15.9pp
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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