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Events · UFC Fight Night: Allen vs Costa · Tuco Tokkos vs Ivan Erslan
Red corner TucoTokkos
VSSettled
Blue corner IvanErslanAmerican Top Team Zagreb · Zagreb
Light Heavyweight3 rounds16 May 2026
The story going in
  • Averages 1.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Erslan.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 37 points more takedown defence than Tokkos.
11-6
Record
15-6
35
Age
−1 yr34
+2″6' 4"
Height
6' 2"
+4″76″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
3
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
Tuco Tokkos
50.9% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 42%
Vs the market+12.4pp
Market had our pick at38%
The fight
Ivan Erslan
LOSS
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Missed We called Tuco Tokkos at 50.9%Ivan Erslan won. We had the method right and the man wrong.
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 action1 sub attempt
Tuco Tokkos40 sig landed
HEAD75%30 of 72BODY12%5 of 7LEGS12%5 of 5
Ivan Erslan25 sig landed
HEAD96%24 of 39BODY4%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
40 of 84
Sig.
strikes
25 of 40
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:09
Control
1:05
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 39Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 4Ground 1
Judges · this round · Tokkos firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9David Sutherland10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Tuco Tokkos10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 21BODY10%1 of 3LEGS10%1 of 1
Ivan Erslan7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 19BODY14%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 25
Sig.
strikes
7 of 20
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
3:25
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Tokkos firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10David Sutherland9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Tuco Tokkos4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 7BODY50%2 of 6LEGS0%0 of 1
Ivan Erslan5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
4 of 14
Sig.
strikes
5 of 6
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:00
Control
4:01
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Tokkos firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10David Sutherland9–10

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 · Eric McMahon
Tuco TokkosIvan Erslan
Official totals — Tuco Tokkos first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
David Sutherland28–29

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 — 8 scored, Tuco Tokkos first · unofficial

Combat Press.com27–30
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Erslan · 61%29-28 Erslan · 39%

23 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.

Tuco Tokkos

2.87takedowns / 15 min
2.87 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.93 / 15m
7.97 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.51 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
37%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Ivan Erslan

0.93takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Tuco TokkosIvan ErslanPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Tuco Tokkos vs Ivan Erslan — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Tuco Tokkos and Ivan Erslan from May 02 to May 16, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Tuco Tokkos moves from 42% to 22% and Ivan Erslan from 58% to 78%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was frozen before the window opened, not at that price.15%25%35%45%55%65%75%85%May 2May 6May 9May 13May 16▲ we passed here (toss-up)22%78%

Tuco Tokkos's implied chance drifted down from 42% to 22% (−20.5pp) over this window. Our pick was frozen at the model cutoff, before this window opened — so the gold marker sits at the first snapshot we hold, not at a price we were reacting to.

Our published call had Tuco Tokkos at 50.9%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 21.5% — our number sat 29.4pp 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
SeriesOpenLowHighLast captureMove
Tuco Tokkos — sportsbook consensus39.5%36.7%48.2%38.7%−0.9pp
Ivan Erslan — sportsbook consensus60.5%51.7%63.3%61.3%+0.9pp
Tuco Tokkos — Polymarket42.0%21.5%56.5%21.5%−20.5pp
Ivan Erslan — Polymarket58.0%43.5%78.5%78.5%+20.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 3,604 snapshots on file · window May 02 18:46May 16 23:57Z · last capture May 16, 23:57Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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