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Elias Theodorou

UFC 8-3Pro 16-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Elias Theodorou’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Decision fighter

UFC recordUFC 8-3 first fight 2014-04-16 · last fight 2019-05-04
Pro record16-3
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W W W L
DivisionMiddleweight
Age38
Height6' 1"
StanceOrthodox

6' 1" orthodox decision fighter campaigning at Middleweight. 8 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 6 decision. Top 18% of Middleweights: lands 4.19 significant strikes a minute.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. 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. The social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

NicknameThe Spartan
NationalityCanada
Born inMississauga, Ontario, Canada Wikipedia
Fights out ofToronto, Ontario, Canada Wikipedia
Camppending
Height6' 1"
Reach75"
StanceOrthodox
Age38
Date of birthMay 31, 1988
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record16-3
UFC recordUFC 8-3 first fight 2014-04-16 · last fight 2019-05-04
Finish split8 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 6 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Elias Theodorou has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Elias Theodorou in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Middleweight52 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 14 June 2017#11–15 · from the table of 16 May 2018No table on record · Aug 2018 – Aug 2018#11–15 · from the table of 29 August 2018No table on record · Oct 2018 – Oct 2018#11–15 · from the table of 31 October 2018First rankedLast ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#13Middleweight · Jun 2018
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
CurrentUnrankedsince Jun 2019

Official UFC.com official rankings, 2013–present · rankings of 12 October 2026

A published rank holds until the next table changes it, so a band runs from the table that set it to the table that ended it — that is how a ranking works, and it is why an unbroken reign is drawn unbroken. Nothing is interpolated: the band is the last published STATUS, never a rank in between, and the hatched stretches are weeks the archive holds no table for at all. The champion band sits above #1 because a belt is not a rank. The three pound-for-pound tables — the combined one to January 2020, then the Men's and Women's ones — share a row, because they are one standing under three names.

Career rates facts

Career averages over Elias Theodorou’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.

Striking
Strikes landed / min4.19
Striking accuracy42%
Strikes absorbed / min2.39
Striking defence53%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.27
Takedown accuracy28%
Takedown defence59%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Middleweight.
Striking60
Defence66
Grappling / TD28
Cardio61
Chin89
Fight IQ61

Strike zones

Strike zones

Elias Theodorou

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD43.3%ACC 31%BODY32.8%ACC 58%LEGS23.9%ACC 62%
FightIQ read Body puncher 32.8% of his landed strikes go to the body — +12.3 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
43.3% acc 31%−20.2 vs field
BODY
32.8% acc 58%+12.3 vs field
LEGS
23.9% acc 62%+7.9 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 63%CLINCH 26%GROUND 11%

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.

11 UFC fights · 644 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Elias Theodorou

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

1.27takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.27 landed per 15 minutes — −1.01 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS35
1.27 / 15m−1.01 vs field
ATTEMPTS55
4.54 / 15m−0.79 vs field
ACCURACY22
28%−19pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.55 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 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.

Ranked in Middleweight

Deep stats facts

Career and last-five-fight figures from round-by-round UFC records, with where each ranks among every UFC fighter who has fought enough to be ranked. Tap a stat name for the full leaderboard.

 CareerLast 5 fights
Striking
Strikes landedSignificant strikes landed per minute of fight time.
4.19/min#333 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
5.15/min#196 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
2.39/min#214 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
3.13/min#657 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
42.3%#770 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
45.4%#736 of 1,752 ranked in the UFC
Durability
Knockdowns per 100 head strikesKnockdowns suffered for every 100 head strikes absorbed. Lower means more punishment taken without going down.
0.47small sample (11 fights)
0.64#294 of 468 ranked in the UFC
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
0%#88 of 803 ranked in the UFC
0%#90 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
59.2%#618 of 1,094 ranked in the UFC
67.7%#411 of 1,498 ranked in the UFC
Get-up speedSeconds the opponent stays in control after each takedown landed on this fighter. Lower means back on their feet faster.
64 sec#80 of 990 ranked in the UFC
67 sec#175 of 1,245 ranked in the UFC
Cardio and late rounds
Round-3 pace kept†Round-3 striking pace as a share of round-1 pace. 100% means no fade.
82%#505 of 585 ranked in the UFC
86%#434 of 605 ranked in the UFC
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.00 per 15 min#996 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.00 per 15 min#970 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
18%#490 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#894 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
0%#846 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#690 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC

† Needs round-by-round data, which is missing for some UFC bouts. Those fights are left out, not estimated.

Every figure is built from UFC fights that have round-by-round data. Some older bouts do not, and are left out rather than estimated. Figures to 2019-05-04.

Recent form

Pro record: 16-3. In the UFC: 8-3. Elias Theodorou’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.

Full UFC career — 11 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2019-05-04LDerek BrunsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Iaquinta vs. Cowboy
2018-12-08WEryk AndersDecision (split)R3UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega
2018-05-27WTrevor SmithDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Till
2017-11-18WDaniel KellyDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Tybura
2017-07-07LBrad TavaresDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: Redemption Finale
2017-02-19WCezar FerreiraDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Browne
2016-06-18WSam AlveyDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs Thompson
2015-12-10LThiago SantosDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. VanZant
2015-03-14WRoger NarvaezKO/TKOR2UFC 185: Pettis vs Dos Anjos
2014-10-04WBruno SantosDecision (unanimous)R3—
2014-04-16WSheldon WestcottKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs Kennedy

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.

On the map

The 8 cities Elias Theodorou has fought a UFC bout in. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 2 bouts, 2015–2017Ottawa, Ontario, Canada — 2 bouts, 2016–2019Dallas, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2015Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — 1 bout, 2017Liverpool, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2018Quebec City, Quebec, Canada — 1 bout, 2014Sydney, New South Wales, Australia — 1 bout, 2017Toronto, Ontario, Canada — 1 bout, 2018

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

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