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History · 1999 · UFC 18: The Road to the Heavyweight Title · Mikey Burnett vs Townsend Saunders
From the tape · 8 Jan 1999

Mikey Burnett vs Townsend Saunders

UFC 18: The Road to the Heavyweight Title · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Result

Mikey Burnett beat Townsend Saunders

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
2 of 1
Clock
3:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Tony Mullinax

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

MB
Red corner MikeyBurnett“The Eastside Assassin”Lion's Den · Tulsa, Oklahoma
VSOn the tape
TS
Blue corner TownsendSaundersWhite Sands, New Mexico
Lightweight1 rounds8 Jan 1999
5-2
Record
0-2
+1″5' 6"
Height
5' 5"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+12
UFC bouts
1
Tulsa, Oklahoma
From
White Sands, New Mexico
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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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Burnett1 sub attempt
Mikey Burnett32 sig landed
HEAD81%26 of 107BODY12%4 of 4LEGS6%2 of 4
Townsend Saunders23 sig landed
HEAD22%5 of 21BODY22%5 of 5LEGS57%13 of 22
32 of 115
Sig.
strikes
23 of 48
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 5
0:00
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 21Clinch 9Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 5Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.
Round 23:00 of actionEnded 3:00
Mikey Burnett10 sig landed
HEAD20%2 of 12BODY50%5 of 5LEGS30%3 of 3
Townsend Saunders11 sig landed
HEAD18%2 of 5BODY82%9 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 20
Sig.
strikes
11 of 15
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 10Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 9Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

No scorecard record on file

This bout went to a decision, but no judge’s card for it has reached our sources yet. Rather than draw an empty grid, the section says so; it fills in on its own when the record catches up.

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.

Mikey Burnett vs Townsend Saunders.

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