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Events · UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs Prates · Tim Elliott vs Steve Erceg
Red corner TimElliottNext Generation Mixed Martial Arts · Lee's Summit, Missouri
VSSettled
Blue corner SteveErcegWilkes Martial Arts · Myaree, Western Australia
Flyweight3 rounds2 May 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Lands 1.1 more significant strikes a minute than Elliott.
  • Has finished 3 of 10 UFC wins.
22-14-1
Record
14-5
39
Age
−9 yr30
5' 7"
Height
+1″5' 8"
66″
Reach
+2″68″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1421
UFC bouts
7
+5%3/1030% of wins
Finishes
1/425% of wins
Next Generation Mixed Martial Arts
Gym
Wilkes Martial Arts
Lee's Summit, Missouri
From
Myaree, Western Australia
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
Steve Erceg
74.4% confidentHIGH
Method calledDEC 66%
Vs the market−1.4pp
Market had our pick at76%
The fight
Steve Erceg
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Steve Erceg at 74.4% and Steve Erceg 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
Tim Elliott39 sig landed
HEAD51%20 of 57BODY13%5 of 15LEGS36%14 of 19
Steve Erceg24 sig landed
HEAD88%21 of 52BODY12%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
39 of 91
Sig.
strikes
24 of 55
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:18
Control
0:00
Distance 39Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elliott firstMark Christie10–9Darryl Ransom10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Tim Elliott27 sig landed
HEAD37%10 of 56BODY15%4 of 8LEGS48%13 of 14
Steve Erceg47 sig landed
HEAD94%44 of 82BODY6%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
27 of 78
Sig.
strikes
47 of 85
0 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:16
Control
0:29
Distance 24Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 44Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elliott firstMark Christie9–10Darryl Ransom9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Tim Elliott24 sig landed
HEAD58%14 of 78BODY8%2 of 4LEGS33%8 of 10
Steve Erceg65 sig landed
HEAD88%57 of 102BODY12%8 of 12LEGS0%0 landed
24 of 92
Sig.
strikes
65 of 114
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 64Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elliott firstMark Christie9–10Darryl Ransom9–10Clemens Werner9–10

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 · Lukasz Bosacki
Tim ElliottSteve Erceg
Official totals — Tim Elliott first
JudgeTotal
Mark Christie28–29
Darryl Ransom2.2 avg spread · 55% wide28–29
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide28–29

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 — 6 scored, Tim Elliott first · unofficial

Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
MM A Latinoamerica28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Erceg · 61%30-27 Erceg · 35%29-28 Elliott · 2%30-26 Erceg · 2%

57 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.

Tim Elliott

3.61takedowns / 15 min
3.61 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.13 / 15m
8.02 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.04 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
28%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Steve Erceg

1.13takedowns / 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 Flyweight

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.

Tim Elliott↑ +6.4pp
open 31.1%close 37.5%
Steve Erceg↓ −6.4pp
open 68.9%close 62.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tim Elliott opened at 31.1% and closed at 37.5% (+6.4pp), with Steve Erceg 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 Steve Erceg at 74.4%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 62.5% — our number sat 11.9pp 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
Tim Elliott21015531.1%37.5%+6.4pp
Steve Erceg-250-18868.9%62.5%−6.4pp
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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