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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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

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
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
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

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.

Judges’ scorecards

Every judge’s round, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Jerin Valel
Melissa CrodenDaria Zhelezniakova
Official card — Melissa Croden first
JudgeR1R2R3Total
Michael Bell9–1010–910–929–28
Dr. Greg Jackson9–1010–910–929–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide9–1010–910–929–28

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.

Still to come on this page

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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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