Reported prose from our newsroom. Counter-striker
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 | 12-4 |
| Finish split | pending |
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against every fighter on record. Tap any i for what a score measures.
The moat — every call we've made on this fighter, timestamped and graded in public. Nobody else can copy this.
FightIQ has picked Oban Elliott 4×, 3 correct (3-1 — 75% right). The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.
| Date | Opponent | Card | We said | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-21 | Seokhyeon Ko | UFC Fight Night: Alekseeva vs Sygula | 65.6% | Missed |
| 2024-11-16 | Bassil Hafez | UFC Fight Night: Araujo vs Silva | 67.6% | Correct |
| 2024-07-27 | Preston Parsons | UFC Fight Night: Duncan vs Rodrigues | 51.9% | Correct |
| 2024-02-17 | Val Woodburn | UFC Fight Night: Lemos vs Dern | 77.1% | Correct |
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.
Pro record: 12-4. Timeline below is the bouts FightIQ has tracked (most recent first).
