What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.
Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.
1 round of tape
No significant strikes landed — 2 thrown
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.
This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.
Yadier Del Valle
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: Kerry Hatley.
Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.
Darren Elkins
Yadier del Valle
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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.
What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.
From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Yadier del Valle's implied chance moved up from 86% to 88% (+2.0pp). 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 Yadier Del Valle at 64.1%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 87.5% — our number sat 23.4pp below the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.
| Series | Open | Low | High | Last capture | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darren Elkins — sportsbook consensus | 15.5% | 10.1% | 15.5% | 10.1% | −5.4pp |
| Yadier del Valle — sportsbook consensus | 84.5% | 84.5% | 89.9% | 89.9% | +5.4pp |
| Darren Elkins — Polymarket | 14.5% | 11.5% | 61.5% | 12.5% | −2.0pp |
| Yadier del Valle — Polymarket | 85.5% | 38.5% | 88.5% | 87.5% | +2.0pp |