Cortavious Romious vs Gaston Bolanos

Gaston Bolanos's 2-fight experience advantage (3 vs 1 fights) held true, but the algorithm limited the bonus to prevent over-rewarding Gaston Bolanos for the expected result. Had Cortavious Romious pulled off the upset, his experience disadvantage would have delivered a modest upset bonus.

This was not a title fight, so both fighters received standard ELO adjustments. However, since ELO is a relative system, victories over former champions can have an indirect impact, and Title Fight ELO can differ from Basic ELO.

Gaston Bolanos earned a clear Decision - Unanimous, receiving full decision bonuses for controlling the fight across all rounds. Of course, a finish would have yielded even greater rewards.

Gaston Bolanos dominated the striking exchanges with 80 vs 30 total strikes, 53 vs 17 significant strikes, 70.7% vs 37.8% accuracy. Gaston Bolanos capitalized on this striking dominance.

Gaston Bolanos edged out Cortavious Romious on the ground with 2 takedowns, 4:29 of control time, 15 ground strikes, earning solid ground ELO bonuses.

Gaston Bolanos demonstrated standard activity with 302 days since his last fight, earning no activity bonus. As the winner, Gaston Bolanos capitalized on this activity level, while Cortavious Romious's null-day layoff didn't factor into the scoring since only winners receive activity bonuses.

Gaston Bolanos started a new win streak, earning a momentum bonus. Cortavious Romious is back at 0 with this loss.

This category provides the foundation ELO scoring without bonuses, except for exceptional multiple division champions.