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Oban Elliott is 3-2 in the UFC across five fights, all at welterweight, since his debut on Feb. 17, 2024.
He won the first three. Val Woodburn and Preston Parsons each lost unanimous decisions to him, on Feb. 17 and July 27, 2024, and Elliott stopped Bassil Hafez by TKO in the third round on Nov. 16, 2024.
The run ended on June 21, 2025, when Seokhyeon Ko took a unanimous decision. Jonathan Micallef then submitted Elliott in the second round on Jan. 31, 2026, the first submission loss on his UFC record.
Belgrade is his sixth UFC appearance and his first since the Micallef fight in January.
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 Welsh Gangster |
| Nationality | Wales |
| Hometown | Merthyr Tydfil |
| Fighting out of | Shore MMA |
| Height | 6' 0" |
| Reach | 72.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 28 |
| Date of birth | Dec 19, 1997 |
| Weight | 170 lbs. |
| Pro record | 12-5 |
| Finish split | 3 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 2 decision |
Career averages over Oban Elliott’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 Welterweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
Every fight of Oban Elliott’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 2 of Oban Elliott’s fights in 2026: 2 correct (2–0 — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-01 | Michael Oliveira | Michael Oliveira (against Elliott) | 67.6% | Correct |
| 2026-01-31 | Jonathan Micallef | Jonathan Micallef (against Elliott) | 53.6% | Correct |
Across our full back-tested history we called 4 of Oban Elliott’s fights, 3 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 (4.97 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: 12-5. In the UFC: 3-3. Oban Elliott’s last 6 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-01 | L | Michael Oliveira | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Medic vs. Rodriguez |
| 2026-01-31 | L | Jonathan Micallef | Submission | R2 | UFC 325: Volkanovski vs. Lopes 2 |
| 2025-06-21 | L | Seokhyeon Ko | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Hill vs. Rountree Jr. |
| 2024-11-16 | W | Bassil Hafez | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC 309: Jones vs. Miocic |
| 2024-07-27 | W | Preston Parsons | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 2 |
| 2024-02-17 | W | Val Woodburn | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria |
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.
