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History · 2013 · UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Dodson · Demetrious Johnson vs John Dodson
From the tape · 26 Jan 2013

Demetrious Johnson vs John Dodson

UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Dodson · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Result

Demetrious Johnson beat John Dodson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Flyweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · John McCarthy

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.

DJ
Red corner DemetriousJohnson“Mighty Mouse”AMC Pankration · Kirkland, Washington
VSOn the tape
JD
Blue corner JohnDodson“The Magician”Jackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Flyweight Title5 rounds26 Jan 2013
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Averages 2.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Dodson.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
27-3-1
Record
22-12
−2 yr26
Age
28
5' 3"
Height
5' 3"
66″
Reach
66″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+36
UFC bouts
3
0/40% of wins
Finishes
+67%2/367% of wins
AMC Pankration
Gym
Jackson-Wink MMA
Kirkland, Washington
From
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Demetrious Johnson11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 25BODY9%1 of 4LEGS45%5 of 8
John Dodson9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 23BODY44%4 of 7LEGS11%1 of 2
11 of 37
Sig.
strikes
9 of 32
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:37
Control
0:19
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstSal D'Amato9–10Gabriel Sabaitis10–9Otto Torriero9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Dodson
Demetrious Johnson15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 30BODY27%4 of 10LEGS33%5 of 12
John Dodson15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 27BODY33%5 of 7LEGS20%3 of 5
15 of 52
Sig.
strikes
15 of 39
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:34
Control
0:01
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 12Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstSal D'Amato9–10Gabriel Sabaitis9–10Otto Torriero9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Demetrious Johnson21 sig landed
HEAD43%9 of 23BODY24%5 of 8LEGS33%7 of 13
John Dodson14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 27BODY36%5 of 7LEGS14%2 of 2
21 of 44
Sig.
strikes
14 of 36
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:22
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 15Clinch 4Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 1
Judges · this round · Johnson firstSal D'Amato10–9Gabriel Sabaitis10–9Otto Torriero10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Demetrious Johnson30 sig landed
HEAD63%19 of 32BODY17%5 of 6LEGS20%6 of 11
John Dodson10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 27BODY30%3 of 8LEGS20%2 of 2
30 of 49
Sig.
strikes
10 of 37
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:15
Control
0:09
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 23Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstSal D'Amato10–9Gabriel Sabaitis10–9Otto Torriero10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Demetrious Johnson50 sig landed
HEAD62%31 of 44BODY28%14 of 16LEGS10%5 of 5
John Dodson9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 5BODY67%6 of 6LEGS11%1 of 1
50 of 65
Sig.
strikes
9 of 12
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:57
Control
2:05
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 41Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstSal D'Amato10–9Gabriel Sabaitis10–9Otto Torriero10–9

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 · John McCarthy
Demetrious JohnsonJohn Dodson
Official totals — Demetrious Johnson first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide48–47
Gabriel Sabaitis49–46
Otto Torriero48–47

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 — 11 scored, Demetrious Johnson first · unofficial

Mike Whitman Sherdog.com49–46
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com49–46
MM AWeekly.com49–46
MM AJunkie.com49–46
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com48–47
Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca48–47
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com48–47
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com48–47
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com48–47
Brent Brookhouse BloodyElbow.com48–47
Fight Metric.com48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Johnson · 51%49-46 Johnson · 20%48-47 Dodson · 13%48-46 Johnson · 4%

157 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.

Demetrious Johnson

3.35takedowns / 15 min
3.35 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.71 / 15m
5.98 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.54 / 15m
56%
ACCURACY
28%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

John Dodson

0.71takedowns / 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.

Demetrious Johnson↑ +2.8pp
open 65.3%close 68.1%
John Dodson↓ −2.8pp
open 34.7%close 31.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Demetrious Johnson opened at 65.3% and closed at 68.1% (+2.8pp), with John Dodson 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
Demetrious Johnson-230-24265.3%68.1%+2.8pp
John Dodson17020234.7%31.9%−2.8pp
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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