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Events · UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. De Ridder · Ibo Aslan vs Billy Elekana
From the tape · 26 Jul 2025

Ibo Aslan vs Billy Elekana

UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. De Ridder · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Billy Elekana beat Ibo Aslan

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Jim Perdios

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 IboAslan“The Last Ottoman”Gym 23 · Istanbul
VSOn the tape
Blue corner BillyElekana“Son of Susie”Uprising MMA · Apple Valley, California
Light Heavyweight3 rounds26 Jul 2025
The story going in
  • Carries 87 points more takedown defence than Elekana.
  • Is 8 points more accurate striking than Aslan.
14-4
Record
10-2
−1 yr29
Age
30
6' 3"
Height
6' 3"
77″
Reach
77″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+23
UFC bouts
1
Gym 23
Gym
Uprising MMA
Istanbul
From
Apple Valley, California
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
Ibo Aslan8 sig landed
HEAD12%1 of 11BODY25%2 of 2LEGS62%5 of 6
Billy Elekana10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 8BODY70%7 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 19
Sig.
strikes
10 of 16
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aslan firstBen Cartlidge9–10Mark Collett9–10Anders Ohlsson9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Ibo Aslan8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 18BODY25%2 of 2LEGS38%3 of 3
Billy Elekana10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 14BODY40%4 of 6LEGS0%0 of 1
8 of 23
Sig.
strikes
10 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aslan firstBen Cartlidge10–9Mark Collett9–10Anders Ohlsson9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ibo Aslan12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 28BODY33%4 of 6LEGS17%2 of 2
Billy Elekana15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 24BODY40%6 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
12 of 36
Sig.
strikes
15 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aslan firstBen Cartlidge9–10Mark Collett9–10Anders Ohlsson9–10

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 · Jim Perdios
Ibo AslanBilly Elekana
Official totals — Ibo Aslan first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide27–30
Anders Ohlsson1.9 avg spread · 42% wide27–30

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 — 10 scored, Ibo Aslan first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Christian Laporte Sherdog.com27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
Combat Press.com28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Elekana · 69%29-28 Aslan · 12%29-28 Elekana · 10%30-28 Elekana · 6%

48 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.

Ibo Aslan

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.85 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
3.86 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
22%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Billy Elekana

0.85takedowns / 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.

Ibo Aslan↑ +1.0pp
open 69.5%close 70.5%
Billy Elekana↓ −1.0pp
open 30.5%close 29.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ibo Aslan opened at 69.5% and closed at 70.5% (+1.0pp), with Billy Elekana 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
Ibo Aslan-278-28969.5%70.5%+1.0pp
Billy Elekana21022230.5%29.5%−1.0pp
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% · 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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