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Events · Medic vs Rodriguez · Michael Oliveira vs Oban Elliott
Red corner MichaelOliveiraArena Fight · Curitiba, Parana
VSSettled
Blue corner ObanElliott“The Welsh Gangster”Shore MMA · Merthyr Tydfil
Welterweight3 rounds1 Aug 2026
The story going in
  • Lands 4.8 more significant strikes a minute than Elliott.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 1.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Oliveira.
10-0
Record
12-5
28
Age
28
+1″6' 1"
Height
6' 0"
+6″78″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Arena Fight
Gym
Shore MMA
Curitiba, Parana
From
Merthyr Tydfil
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
Michael Oliveira
67.6% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 44%
Vs the market−8.7pp
Market had our pick at76%
The fight
Michael Oliveira
WIN
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 3
Clock1:49
Called it We called Michael Oliveira at 67.6% and Michael Oliveira 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

1 round of tape

Round 11:49 of action⚡ 2 KD OliveiraEnded 1:49
Michael Oliveira14 sig landed
HEAD93%13 of 23BODY7%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Oban Elliott6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 8BODY17%1 of 2LEGS17%1 of 1
14 of 25
Sig.
strikes
6 of 11
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:15
Control
0:00
2
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Michael Oliveira

Round
1
Clock
1:49
Method
KO/TKO

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: Jacob Montalvo.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Michael Oliveira

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.52 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
3.80 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
40%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Oban Elliott

1.52takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Michael OliveiraOban ElliottPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Michael Oliveira vs Oban Elliott — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Michael Oliveira and Oban Elliott from Jul 25 to Aug 01, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Michael Oliveira moves from 63% to 76% and Oban Elliott from 37% to 24%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was frozen before the window opened, not at that price.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%Jul 25Jul 27Jul 28Jul 30Aug 1▲ our call: Michael Oliveira (MED)76%24%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Michael Oliveira's implied chance moved up from 63% to 76% (+12.5pp). 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.

This series stops at Aug 01 16:18Z — the last capture we hold from before the bout that ran ahead of this one on the card had finished — so it is provably from before this fight started. Our capture window is card-level and kept running through the fight, so what follows it in the raw file is the market collapsing live and then paying out at 1.00 / 0.00. That is a settlement, not price history: it is not drawn, and it is not counted in the figures below.

Our published call had Michael Oliveira at 67.6%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 75.5% — our number sat 7.9pp below 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 pre-fightMove
Michael Oliveira — sportsbook consensus78.3%70.6%96.0%77.8%−0.5pp
Oban Elliott — sportsbook consensus21.7%4.0%29.4%22.2%+0.5pp
Michael Oliveira — Polymarket63.0%43.5%77.5%75.5%+12.5pp
Oban Elliott — Polymarket37.0%22.5%56.5%24.5%−12.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 794 snapshots on file · window Jul 25 03:12Aug 01 16:12Z · last capture Aug 01, 16:12Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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