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History · 2012 · UFC on FOX: Evans vs Davis · Michael Johnson vs Shane Roller
From the tape · 28 Jan 2012

Michael Johnson vs Shane Roller

UFC on FOX: Evans vs Davis · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Result

Michael Johnson beat Shane Roller

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

Red corner MichaelJohnson“The Menace”Kill Cliff FC · Springfield, Missouri
VSOn the tape
SR
Blue corner ShaneRollerTeam Takedown · Bixby, Oklahoma
Lightweight3 rounds28 Jan 2012
The story going in
  • Carries 39 points more takedown defence than Roller.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 1.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Johnson.
25-20
Record
11-7
−7 yr25
Age
32
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
+1″73″
Reach
72″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
3
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Team Takedown
Springfield, Missouri
From
Bixby, Oklahoma
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 — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Michael Johnson35 sig landed
HEAD71%25 of 55BODY9%3 of 3LEGS20%7 of 7
Shane Roller8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 16BODY12%1 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
35 of 65
Sig.
strikes
8 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 6
1:30
Control
0:17
Distance 24Clinch 11Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstSal D'Amato10–9Pat Morley10–9Gabriel Sabaitis10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Michael Johnson19 sig landed
HEAD63%12 of 29BODY5%1 of 3LEGS32%6 of 7
Shane Roller19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 24BODY26%5 of 7LEGS5%1 of 1
19 of 39
Sig.
strikes
19 of 32
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 5
2:16
Control
0:24
Distance 10Clinch 8Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstSal D'Amato10–9Pat Morley10–9Gabriel Sabaitis10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Michael Johnson10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 29BODY10%1 of 1LEGS20%2 of 2
Shane Roller29 sig landed
HEAD100%29 of 39BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
10 of 32
Sig.
strikes
29 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:40
Control
3:12
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 25
Judges · this round · Johnson firstSal D'Amato9–10Pat Morley9–10Gabriel Sabaitis9–10

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.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Michael JohnsonShane Roller
Official totals — Michael Johnson first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Pat Morley29–28
Gabriel Sabaitis29–28

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 6 scored, Michael Johnson first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com29–28
Ray Hui MMAFighting.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Freddie DeFreitas Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Johnson · 100%

4 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Michael Johnson

0.57takedowns / 15 min
0.57 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.46 / 15m
1.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.45 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
33%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.90 / 15m

Shane Roller

2.46takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Michael Johnson↓ −5.4pp
open 35.6%close 30.2%
Shane Roller↑ +5.4pp
open 64.4%close 69.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Michael Johnson opened at 35.6% and closed at 30.2% (−5.4pp), with Shane Roller 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
Michael Johnson16522535.6%30.2%−5.4pp
Shane Roller-215-24564.4%69.8%+5.4pp
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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