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Events · UFC Fight Night: Burns vs Malott · Melissa Croden vs Daria Zhelezniakova
Red corner MelissaCrodenRaven House MMA · Crowsnest Pass, Alberta
VSSettled
Blue corner DariaZhelezniakova
Women's Bantamweight3 rounds18 Apr 2026
8-3
Record
10-3
35
Age
−5 yr30
5' 9"
Height
5' 9"
68″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+13
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
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
Melissa Croden
56.9% confidentLOW
Method calledDEC 70%
Vs the market−5.2pp
Market had our pick at62%
The fight
Melissa Croden
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Melissa Croden at 56.9% and Melissa Croden won. The method call landed too.
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 — 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
Melissa Croden15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 35BODY27%4 of 8LEGS13%2 of 3
Daria Zhelezniakova14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 31BODY14%2 of 6LEGS21%3 of 3
15 of 46
Sig.
strikes
14 of 40
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:16
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Croden firstMichael Bell9–10Dr. Greg Jackson9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Melissa Croden27 sig landed
HEAD78%21 of 44BODY7%2 of 7LEGS15%4 of 5
Daria Zhelezniakova14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 37BODY29%4 of 7LEGS7%1 of 1
27 of 56
Sig.
strikes
14 of 45
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:39
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 20Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Croden firstMichael Bell10–9Dr. Greg Jackson10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Melissa Croden27 sig landed
HEAD78%21 of 42BODY22%6 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
Daria Zhelezniakova13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 32BODY8%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
27 of 51
Sig.
strikes
13 of 33
3 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:17
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 8Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Croden firstMichael Bell10–9Dr. Greg Jackson10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9

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 · Jerin Valel
Melissa CrodenDaria Zhelezniakova
Official totals — Melissa Croden first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Dr. Greg Jackson29–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% 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 — 9 scored, Melissa Croden first · unofficial

MM A Latinoamerica29–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Croden · 56%29-27 Croden · 21%29-28 Zhelezniakova · 9%30-27 Croden · 6%

34 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.

Melissa Croden

2.02takedowns / 15 min
2.02 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.31 / 15m
4.04 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.31 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
100%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Daria Zhelezniakova

0.31takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Bantamweight

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.

Melissa Croden↓ −5.6pp
open 62.1%close 56.5%
Daria Zhelezniakova↑ +5.6pp
open 37.9%close 43.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Melissa Croden opened at 62.1% and closed at 56.5% (−5.6pp), with Daria Zhelezniakova 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.

Our published call had Melissa Croden at 56.9%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 56.5% — our number sat 0.4pp above the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Melissa Croden-180-14462.1%56.5%−5.6pp
Daria Zhelezniakova15512037.9%43.5%+5.6pp
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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