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Events · UFC 168: Weidman vs Silva 2 · Gleison Tibau vs Michael Johnson
From the tape · 28 Dec 2013

Gleison Tibau vs Michael Johnson

UFC 168: Weidman vs Silva 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Michael Johnson beat Gleison Tibau

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
1:32
LightweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

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.

GT
Red corner GleisonTibauAmerican Top Team · Mossoro, Rio Grande do Norte
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MichaelJohnson“The Menace”Kill Cliff FC · Springfield, Missouri
Lightweight3 rounds28 Dec 2013
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 13 UFC wins.
  • Lands 2.3 more significant strikes a minute than Tibau.
33-14
Record
25-20
30
Age
−3 yr27
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
71″
Reach
+2″73″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+1120
UFC bouts
9
5/1338% of wins
Finishes
+2%2/540% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Mossoro, Rio Grande do Norte
From
Springfield, Missouri
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Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Gleison Tibau9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 43BODY0%0 of 1LEGS11%1 of 1
Michael Johnson12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 45BODY33%4 of 6LEGS17%2 of 6
9 of 45
Sig.
strikes
12 of 57
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:59
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 21:32 of action⚡ 1 KD JohnsonEnded 1:32
Gleison Tibau3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 16BODY0%0 of 1LEGS33%1 of 1
Michael Johnson10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 20BODY30%3 of 6LEGS10%1 of 2
3 of 18
Sig.
strikes
10 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:02
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 2

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Michael Johnson

Round
2
Clock
1:32
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Yves Lavigne.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Gleison Tibau

4.08takedowns / 15 min
4.08 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.57 / 15m
7.70 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.50 / 15m
53%
ACCURACY
38%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Michael Johnson

0.57takedowns / 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.

Gleison Tibau→ no move
open 57.5%close 57.1%
Michael Johnson→ no move
open 42.5%close 42.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Gleison Tibau opened at 57.5% and closed at 57.1% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Gleison Tibau-160-14557.5%57.1%−0.4pp
Michael Johnson12012542.5%42.9%+0.4pp
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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