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Events · The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir Finale · Anthony Johnson vs Kevin Burns
From the tape · 13 Dec 2008

Anthony Johnson vs Kevin Burns

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Anthony Johnson beat Kevin Burns

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 3
Clock
0:28
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Mario Yamasaki

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.

AJ
Red corner AnthonyJohnson“Rumble”Kill Cliff FC · Boca Raton, Florida
VSOn the tape
KB
Blue corner KevinBurns“The Fire”Grudge Training Center · Des Moines, Iowa
Welterweight3 rounds13 Dec 2008
The story going in
  • Carries 30 points more takedown defence than Burns.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
22-6
Record
12-7
−4 yr24
Age
28
+4″6' 2"
Height
5' 10"
+4″78″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+24
UFC bouts
2
2/2100% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Grudge Training Center
Boca Raton, Florida
From
Des Moines, Iowa
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. 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.

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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Anthony Johnson20 sig landed
HEAD35%7 of 18BODY20%4 of 6LEGS45%9 of 11
Kevin Burns13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 26BODY8%1 of 3LEGS38%5 of 6
20 of 35
Sig.
strikes
13 of 35
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:15
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Anthony Johnson8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 14BODY38%3 of 4LEGS12%1 of 1
Kevin Burns3 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%3 of 3
8 of 19
Sig.
strikes
3 of 6
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:12
Control
0:01
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 30:28 of action⚡ 1 KD JohnsonEnded 0:28
Anthony Johnson7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 7BODY29%2 of 2LEGS14%1 of 1
Kevin Burns1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 1
7 of 10
Sig.
strikes
1 of 4
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 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

Anthony Johnson

Round
3
Clock
0:28
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: Mario Yamasaki.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Anthony Johnson

2.43takedowns / 15 min
2.43 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.28 / 15m
4.26 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.56 / 15m
57%
ACCURACY
50%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Kevin Burns

0.28takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Anthony Johnson↑ +6.2pp
open 67.4%close 73.6%
Kevin Burns↓ −6.2pp
open 32.6%close 26.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Anthony Johnson opened at 67.4% and closed at 73.6% (+6.2pp), with Kevin Burns moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Anthony Johnson-250-32567.4%73.6%+6.2pp
Kevin Burns19026532.6%26.4%−6.2pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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