Built from Darren Elkins’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder
5' 10" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Featherweight. 19 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 3 submission, 12 decision.
The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.
| Nickname | The Damage |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown | Hobart, Indiana |
| Fighting out of | pending |
| Height | 5' 10" |
| Reach | 71.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 42 |
| Date of birth | May 16, 1984 |
| Weight | 145 lbs. |
| Pro record | 29-13 |
| Finish split | 19 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 3 submission, 12 decision |
Career averages over Darren Elkins’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Featherweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
Every fight of Darren Elkins’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.
FightIQ has called 1 of Darren Elkins’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–0 — 100% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.
| Date | Opponent | We called it for | Confidence | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-08 | Yadier Del Valle | Yadier Del Valle (against Elkins) | 64.1% | Correct |
Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Darren Elkins’s fights, 2 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
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.
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.
Pro record: 29-13. In the UFC: 19-12. Darren Elkins’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.
Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-08 | L | Yadier del Valle | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Gamrot vs. Salkilld |
| 2025-04-12 | L | Julian Erosa | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 314: Volkanovski vs. Lopes |
| 2024-10-19 | W | Daniel Pineda | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Hernandez vs. Pereira |
| 2023-10-14 | W | TJ Brown | Submission | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Yusuff vs. Barboza |
| 2022-12-03 | L | Jonathan Pearce | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Holland |
| 2022-04-30 | W | Tristan Connelly | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Vera |
| 2021-12-18 | L | Cub Swanson | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Daukaus |
| 2021-07-24 | W | Darrick Minner | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Dillashaw |
| 2020-11-07 | W | Eduardo Garagorri | Submission | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Teixeira |
| 2020-05-16 | L | Nate Landwehr | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Harris |
| 2019-07-13 | L | Ryan Hall | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: De Randamie vs. Ladd |
| 2018-11-17 | L | Ricardo Lamas | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Ponzinibbio |
| 2018-07-14 | L | Alexander Volkanovski | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Ivanov |
| 2018-01-14 | W | Michael Johnson | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Stephens vs. Choi |
| 2017-07-22 | W | Dennis Bermudez | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Weidman vs. Gastelum |
| 2017-03-04 | W | Mirsad Bektic | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson 2 |
| 2016-07-23 | W | Godofredo Pepey | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Holm vs. Shevchenko |
| 2016-03-05 | W | Chas Skelly | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 196: McGregor vs Diaz |
| 2015-10-24 | W | Robert Whiteford | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Holohan vs Smolka |
| 2014-12-20 | L | Hacran Dias | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Machida vs Dollaway |
| 2014-10-25 | W | Lucas Martins | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 179: Aldo vs Mendes 2 |
| 2014-01-25 | L | Jeremy Stephens | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Thomson |
| 2013-08-28 | W | Hatsu Hioki | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann 2 |
| 2013-04-20 | L | Chad Mendes | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Melendez |
| 2013-03-16 | W | Antonio Carvalho | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 158: St-Pierre vs Diaz |
| 2012-11-17 | W | Steven Siler | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 154: St-Pierre vs Condit |
| 2012-05-26 | W | Diego Brandao | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 146: Dos Santos vs Mir |
| 2011-10-08 | W | Zhang Tiequan | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 136: Edgar vs Maynard 3 |
| 2011-06-11 | W | Michihiro Omigawa | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 131: Dos Santos vs Carwin |
| 2010-08-01 | L | Charles Oliveira | Submission | R1 | UFC Live: Jones vs Matyushenko |
| 2010-03-21 | W | Duane Ludwig | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Live: Vera vs Jones |
Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.
