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Events · UFC: Kim vs Fan · Junior Tafa vs Billy Elekana
Red corner JuniorTafa“The Juggernaut”NTG Fight & Fitness · Avondale
VSSettled
Blue corner BillyElekana“Son of Susie”Uprising MMA · Apple Valley, California
Light Heavyweight Bout3 rounds31 Jan 2026
The story going in
  • Carries 72 points more takedown defence than Elekana.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
7-6
Record
10-2
−1 yr29
Age
30
6' 3"
Height
6' 3"
75″
Reach
+2″77″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+36
UFC bouts
3
2/2100% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
NTG Fight & Fitness
Gym
Uprising MMA
Avondale
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.

The call vs the fight

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

Our call
Billy Elekana
63.4% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 42%
Vs the market−1.2pp
Market had our pick at65%
The fight
Billy Elekana
WIN
How it endedSUB
Round2 of 3
Clock3:18
Called it We called Billy Elekana at 63.4% and Billy Elekana 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⚡ 1 KD Tafa
Junior Tafa26 sig landed
HEAD50%13 of 32BODY38%10 of 11LEGS12%3 of 3
Billy Elekana9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 20BODY22%2 of 3LEGS11%1 of 1
26 of 46
Sig.
strikes
9 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:07
Control
0:37
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 23:18 of action1 sub attemptEnded 3:18
Junior Tafa12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 17BODY33%4 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Billy Elekana15 sig landed
HEAD93%14 of 25BODY7%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
12 of 24
Sig.
strikes
15 of 27
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
1:03
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 1

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

Billy Elekana

Round
2
Clock
3:18
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: Herb Dean.

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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