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History · 2013 · UFC 158: St-Pierre vs Diaz · John Makdessi vs Daron Cruickshank
From the tape · 16 Mar 2013

John Makdessi vs Daron Cruickshank

UFC 158: St-Pierre vs Diaz · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Result

John Makdessi beat Daron Cruickshank

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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
DC
Blue corner DaronCruickshank“Detroit Superstar”Michigan Top Team · Wayne, Michigan
Lightweight3 rounds16 Mar 2013
The story going in
  • Lands 2.6 more significant strikes a minute than Cruickshank.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 2.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Makdessi.
18-9
Record
18-10
27
Age
27
5' 8"
Height
5' 8"
68″
Reach
+4″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+35
UFC bouts
2
1/333% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Tristar Gym
Gym
Michigan Top Team
Halifax, Nova Scotia
From
Wayne, Michigan
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 Makdessi11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 24BODY27%3 of 12LEGS36%4 of 5
Daron Cruickshank12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 44BODY17%2 of 5LEGS42%5 of 5
11 of 41
Sig.
strikes
12 of 54
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:02
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Makdessi firstClaude Paquette9–10Benoit Roussel9–10David Therien9–10
Round 25:00 of action
John Makdessi28 sig landed
HEAD68%19 of 51BODY21%6 of 8LEGS11%3 of 3
Daron Cruickshank23 sig landed
HEAD65%15 of 60BODY17%4 of 6LEGS17%4 of 4
28 of 62
Sig.
strikes
23 of 70
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Makdessi firstClaude Paquette10–9Benoit Roussel10–9David Therien10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
John Makdessi47 sig landed
HEAD74%35 of 78BODY17%8 of 10LEGS9%4 of 4
Daron Cruickshank16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 62BODY6%1 of 8LEGS19%3 of 4
47 of 92
Sig.
strikes
16 of 74
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:11
Control
0:00
Distance 46Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Makdessi firstClaude Paquette10–9Benoit Roussel10–9David Therien10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
John MakdessiDaron Cruickshank
Official totals — John Makdessi first
JudgeTotal
Claude Paquette29–28
Benoit Roussel29–28
David Therien2.1 avg spread · 46% 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 — 10 scored, John Makdessi first · unofficial

Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–28
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com30–28
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28
Brent Brookhouse BloodyElbow.com29–28
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Makdessi · 44%30-28 Makdessi · 19%30-27 Cruickshank · 19%29-28 Makdessi · 19%

16 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
2.04 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
4.98 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
41%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Daron Cruickshank

2.04takedowns / 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↑ +8.1pp
open 46.2%close 54.3%
Daron Cruickshank↓ −8.1pp
open 53.8%close 45.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

John Makdessi opened at 46.2% and closed at 54.3% (+8.1pp), with Daron Cruickshank 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 Makdessi100-12746.2%54.3%+8.1pp
Daron Cruickshank-14011253.8%45.7%−8.1pp
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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