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Ezra Elliott vs Damien Anderson

Red corner EzraElliottMMA Lab · Hometown (per Sherdog): Arizona
VSSettled
Blue corner DamienAndersonHometown (per Sherdog): Austin, Texas
Featherweight3 rounds18 Jul 2026
8-0
Record
5-1
−3 yr26
Age
29
+1″5' 9"
Height
5' 8"
+3″72″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Arizonahometown, per Sherdog
From
Austin, Texashometown, per Sherdog
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The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Damien Anderson
50.1% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 37%
Vs the market+0.1pp
Market had our pick at50%
The fight
Ezra Elliot
LOSS✓
How it endedU-DEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Missed We called Damien Anderson at 50.1% — Ezra Elliot won. We had the method right and the man wrong.
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 — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Ezra Elliott1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY0%0 of 1LEGS100%1 of 1
Damien Anderson4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 6BODY25%1 of 1LEGS0%0 of 2
1 of 6
Sig.
strikes
4 of 9
4 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:41
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Elliott firstMichael Bell9–10Eric Colón10–9David Sutherland9–10
Round 25:00 of action3 sub attempts
Ezra Elliott5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 4BODY20%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Damien Anderson2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 3BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 5
Sig.
strikes
2 of 4
4 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 1
4:03
Control
0:00
3
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elliott firstMichael Bell10–9Eric Colón10–9David Sutherland10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ezra Elliott0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed

Damien Anderson1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
0 of 0
Sig.
strikes
1 of 7
4 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:17
Control
0:47
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Elliott firstMichael Bell10–9Eric Colón10–9David Sutherland10–9

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.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Nick Berens
Ezra ElliottDamien Anderson
Official totals — Ezra Elliott first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
David Sutherland29–28

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 10 scored, Ezra Elliott first · unofficial

Unattributed30–27
CombatPress.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Elliott · 70%29-28 Elliott · 19%29-28 Anderson · 8%30-26 Elliott · 3%

37 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Ezra Elliott

12.00takedowns / 15 min
12.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
18.18 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
66%
ACCURACY
n/a
3.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Damien Anderson

0.00takedowns / 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 (6.09 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there. (Neither our captured price series nor the sportsbook open/close record on file has this pair.)

Ezra Elliott vs Damien Anderson.

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