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History · 2012 · UFC on FOX: Diaz vs Miller · John Dodson vs Tim Elliott
From the tape · 5 May 2012

John Dodson vs Tim Elliott

UFC on FOX: Diaz vs Miller · East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA
Result

John Dodson beat Tim Elliott

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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.

JD
Red corner JohnDodson“The Magician”Jackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
VSOn the tape
Blue corner TimElliottNext Generation Mixed Martial Arts · Lee's Summit, Missouri
Flyweight3 rounds5 May 2012
The story going in
  • Carries 23 points more takedown defence than Elliott.
  • Averages 2.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Dodson.
22-12
Record
22-14-1
27
Age
−2 yr25
5' 3"
Height
+4″5' 7"
66″
Reach
66″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Jackson-Wink MMA
Gym
Next Generation Mixed Martial Arts
Albuquerque, New Mexico
From
Lee's Summit, Missouri
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 Dodson24 sig landed
HEAD79%19 of 55BODY12%3 of 7LEGS8%2 of 2
Tim Elliott17 sig landed
HEAD65%11 of 48BODY29%5 of 13LEGS6%1 of 2
24 of 64
Sig.
strikes
17 of 63
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:07
Control
0:02
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dodson firstRicardo Almeida10–9Tony Tamburrino10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 25:00 of action
John Dodson25 sig landed
HEAD68%17 of 66BODY24%6 of 6LEGS8%2 of 2
Tim Elliott18 sig landed
HEAD67%12 of 59BODY22%4 of 11LEGS11%2 of 2
25 of 74
Sig.
strikes
18 of 72
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:05
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dodson firstRicardo Almeida10–9Tony Tamburrino10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
John Dodson31 sig landed
HEAD58%18 of 79BODY26%8 of 11LEGS16%5 of 5
Tim Elliott44 sig landed
HEAD93%41 of 85BODY5%2 of 4LEGS2%1 of 1
31 of 95
Sig.
strikes
44 of 90
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 30Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 34Clinch 10Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dodson firstRicardo Almeida9–10Tony Tamburrino9–10Dave Tirelli9–10

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 · Keith Peterson
John DodsonTim Elliott
Official totals — John Dodson first
JudgeTotal
Ricardo Almeida29–28
Tony Tamburrino29–28
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide29–28

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, John Dodson first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com29–28
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Lotfi Sariahmed Sherdog.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28
Dave Doyle MMAFighting.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Dodson · 65%29-28 Elliott · 12%30-26 Elliott · 6%

17 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 Dodson

0.71takedowns / 15 min
0.71 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.61 / 15m
2.54 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.02 / 15m
28%
ACCURACY
45%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Tim Elliott

3.61takedowns / 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.

John Dodson↑ +4.1pp
open 77.3%close 81.3%
Tim Elliott↓ −4.1pp
open 22.7%close 18.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

John Dodson opened at 77.3% and closed at 81.3% (+4.1pp), with Tim Elliott 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 Dodson-425-50577.3%81.3%+4.1pp
Tim Elliott32042222.7%18.7%−4.1pp
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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