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History · 2012 · UFC 145: Jones vs Evans · John Makdessi vs Anthony Njokuani
From the tape · 21 Apr 2012

John Makdessi vs Anthony Njokuani

UFC 145: Jones vs Evans · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Result

Anthony Njokuani beat John Makdessi

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.

JM
Red corner JohnMakdessi“The Bull”Tristar Gym · Halifax, Nova Scotia
VSOn the tape
AN
Blue corner AnthonyNjokuani“The Assassin”Garland, Texas
Lightweight3 rounds21 Apr 2012
18-9
Record
16-12
−6 yr26
Age
32
5' 8"
Height
+5″6' 1"
68″
Reach
+7″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
3
1/250% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Halifax, Nova Scotia
From
Garland, Texas
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
John Makdessi9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 14BODY33%3 of 11LEGS22%2 of 3
Anthony Njokuani14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 22BODY29%4 of 9LEGS29%4 of 8
9 of 28
Sig.
strikes
14 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Makdessi firstRichard Bertrand9–10Derek Cleary9–10Anthony Maness9–10
Round 25:00 of action
John Makdessi16 sig landed
HEAD25%4 of 28BODY44%7 of 12LEGS31%5 of 5
Anthony Njokuani27 sig landed
HEAD33%9 of 31BODY37%10 of 16LEGS30%8 of 9
16 of 45
Sig.
strikes
27 of 56
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Makdessi firstRichard Bertrand9–10Derek Cleary9–10Anthony Maness9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
John Makdessi14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 24BODY29%4 of 13LEGS29%4 of 6
Anthony Njokuani32 sig landed
HEAD44%14 of 31BODY28%9 of 15LEGS28%9 of 11
14 of 43
Sig.
strikes
32 of 57
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Makdessi firstRichard Bertrand9–10Derek Cleary9–10Anthony Maness9–10

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
John MakdessiAnthony Njokuani
Official totals — John Makdessi first
JudgeTotal
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–30
Anthony Maness1.9 avg spread · 43% wide27–30

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, John Makdessi first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com27–30
MM AWeekly.com27–30
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com28–30
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Njokuani · 86%29-28 Njokuani · 14%

7 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.

John Makdessi

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.50 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
1.11 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
45%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Anthony Njokuani

0.50takedowns / 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.

John Makdessi↓ −14.5pp
open 47.1%close 32.7%
Anthony Njokuani↑ +14.5pp
open 52.9%close 67.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

John Makdessi opened at 47.1% and closed at 32.7% (−14.5pp), with Anthony Njokuani 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
John Makdessi-10520047.1%32.7%−14.5pp
Anthony Njokuani-135-22052.9%67.3%+14.5pp
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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