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Events · UFC: Kim vs Fan · Jonathan Micallef vs Oban Elliott
Red corner JonathanMicallef“The Captain”Combat 1 MMA · Melbourne, Victoria
VSSettled
Blue corner ObanElliott“The Welsh Gangster”Shore MMA · Merthyr Tydfil
Welterweight Bout3 rounds31 Jan 2026
10-1
Record
12-5
−2 yr26
Age
28
6' 0"
Height
6' 0"
+5″77″
Reach
72″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+34
0/10% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Combat 1 MMA
Gym
Shore MMA
Melbourne, Victoria
From
Merthyr Tydfil
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.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Jonathan Micallef
53.6% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 62%
Vs the market+1.0pp
Market had our pick at53%
The fight
Jonathan Micallef
WIN
How it endedSUB
Round2 of 3
Clock3:31
Called it We called Jonathan Micallef at 53.6% and Jonathan Micallef won. The method call missed.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Jonathan Micallef11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 31BODY27%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Oban Elliott21 sig landed
HEAD76%16 of 43BODY5%1 of 2LEGS19%4 of 4
11 of 36
Sig.
strikes
21 of 49
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:35
Control
1:05
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 5Ground 0
Round 23:31 of action1 sub attemptEnded 3:31
Jonathan Micallef8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 18BODY25%2 of 4LEGS12%1 of 1
Oban Elliott19 sig landed
HEAD95%18 of 31BODY0%0 of 1LEGS5%1 of 1
8 of 23
Sig.
strikes
19 of 33
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:00
Control
0:06
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 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

Jonathan Micallef

Round
2
Clock
3:31
Method
SUB

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: Marc Goddard.

Still to come on this page

Named rather than hidden. It is built from data already on disk and lands in the next pass of this build-out.

The market story coming in this build-out

What the price did in the week before the cage door shut, with the moment our pick was frozen marked on it. Where we captured no price history for a bout, this panel will say so rather than draw a line that was never there.

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