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Elves Brener vs Josiah Harrell

Red corner ElvesBrenerChute Boxe Diego Lima · Hometown (per Sherdog): Maues, Amazonas
VSSettled
Blue corner JosiahHarrell“Muscle Hamster”Grove City BJJ · Hometown (per Sherdog): Columbus, Ohio
Lightweight3 rounds26 Sep 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 3.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Brener.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
17-6
Record
11-2
28
Age
−1 yr27
+3″5' 10"
Height
5' 7"
+4″72″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+56
UFC bouts
1
Chute Boxe Diego Lima
Gym
Grove City BJJ
Maues, Amazonashometown, per Sherdog
From
Columbus, Ohiohometown, per Sherdog
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

The call vs the fight

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

Our call
Josiah Harrell
60.2% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 46%
Vs the market+7.3pp
Market had our pick at53%
The fight
Elves Brener
LOSS✗
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 3
Clock4:14
Missed We called Josiah Harrell at 60.2% — Elves Brener won. The method call missed as well.
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 →

By the numbers

  • Time away

    Brener’s first UFC fight in 14 months. A fighter coming back after 1 to 2 years away, against an opponent active within the year, wins 41% of the time (375 of 924 fights).

Counted from every UFC fight on record before this bout. These are history, not our model’s read.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 14:14 of action⚡ 1 KD BrenerEnded 4:14
Elves Brener25 sig landed
HEAD44%11 of 22BODY20%5 of 5LEGS36%9 of 9
Josiah Harrell9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 14BODY22%2 of 2LEGS22%2 of 5
25 of 36
Sig.
strikes
9 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:05
Control
0:33
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Elves Brener

Round
1
Clock
4:14
Method
KO/TKO

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: Herb Dean.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Elves Brener

0.94takedowns / 15 min
0.94 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.14 / 15m
5.87 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
10.35 / 15m
16%
ACCURACY
40%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Josiah Harrell

4.14takedowns / 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 (5.19 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Elves BrenerJosiah HarrellPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Elves Brener vs Josiah Harrell — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Elves Brener and Josiah Harrell from Sep 19 to Sep 26, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Elves Brener moves from 54% to 44% and Josiah Harrell from 46% to 56%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.35%40%45%50%55%60%Sep 19Sep 21Sep 23Sep 25Sep 26▲ our call: Josiah Harrell (MED)44%56%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Josiah Harrell's implied chance moved up from 46% to 56% (+10.0pp).

This series stops at Sep 26 22:21Z — the point at which this bout’s own market began the move that ended in settlement. Our capture window is card-level and kept running through the fight, so what follows it in the raw file is the market collapsing live and then paying out at 1.00 / 0.00. That is a settlement, not price history: it is not drawn, and it is not counted in the figures below.

Our published call had Josiah Harrell at 60.2%. At the last price we captured before this bout’s market began to settle, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 56.5% — our number sat 3.7pp above the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
SeriesOpenLowHighLast pre-fightMove
Elves Brener — sportsbook consensus50.0%44.7%50.2%45.8%−4.2pp
Josiah Harrell — sportsbook consensus50.0%49.8%55.3%54.2%+4.2pp
Elves Brener — Polymarket53.5%43.0%53.5%43.5%−10.0pp
Josiah Harrell — Polymarket46.5%46.5%57.0%56.5%+10.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,026 snapshots on file · window Sep 19 20:11–Sep 26 22:11Z · last capture Sep 26, 22:11Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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