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Events · UFC 315: Muhammad vs. Della Maddalena · Navajo Stirling vs Ivan Erslan
From the tape · 10 May 2025

Navajo Stirling vs Ivan Erslan

UFC 315: Muhammad vs. Della Maddalena · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Result

Navajo Stirling beat Ivan Erslan

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Erick Philippeaux

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 NavajoStirlingCity Kickboxing · Auckland
VSOn the tape
Blue corner IvanErslanAmerican Top Team Zagreb · Zagreb
Light Heavyweight3 rounds10 May 2025
11-0
Record
15-6
−6 yr27
Age
33
+2″6' 4"
Height
6' 2"
+7″79″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
1
City Kickboxing
Gym
American Top Team Zagreb
Auckland
From
Zagreb
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
Navajo Stirling31 sig landed
HEAD6%2 of 31BODY35%11 of 20LEGS58%18 of 25
Ivan Erslan12 sig landed
HEAD92%11 of 29BODY8%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
31 of 76
Sig.
strikes
12 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Stirling firstMichael Bell9–10Eric Colón10–9Guy Girard9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Navajo Stirling19 sig landed
HEAD21%4 of 22BODY42%8 of 10LEGS37%7 of 8
Ivan Erslan11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 29BODY27%3 of 4LEGS9%1 of 1
19 of 40
Sig.
strikes
11 of 34
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:16
Control
1:41
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Stirling firstMichael Bell10–9Eric Colón9–10Guy Girard10–9
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD StirlingEnded 5:00
Navajo Stirling60 sig landed
HEAD80%48 of 94BODY12%7 of 10LEGS8%5 of 5
Ivan Erslan13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 32BODY23%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
60 of 109
Sig.
strikes
13 of 36
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:45
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 34Clinch 3Ground 23
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Stirling firstMichael Bell10–8Eric Colón10–9Guy Girard10–9

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 · Erick Philippeaux
Navajo StirlingIvan Erslan
Official totals — Navajo Stirling first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–27
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Guy Girard29–28

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, Navajo Stirling first · unofficial

Jake Noecker Home of Fight30–26
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Val Dewar Cageside Press29–28
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News29–28
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-27 Stirling · 32%29-28 Stirling · 17%30-26 Stirling · 16%30-27 Stirling · 10%

76 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.

Navajo Stirling

0.98takedowns / 15 min
0.98 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.93 / 15m
3.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.51 / 15m
28%
ACCURACY
37%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Ivan Erslan

0.93takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

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.

Navajo Stirling↑ +6.7pp
open 66.3%close 73.0%
Ivan Erslan↓ −6.7pp
open 33.7%close 27.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Navajo Stirling opened at 66.3% and closed at 73.0% (+6.7pp), with Ivan Erslan 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
Navajo Stirling-250-32866.3%73.0%+6.7pp
Ivan Erslan17525233.7%27.0%−6.7pp
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 2025-05-11 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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