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History · 2014 · UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs Manuwa · Michael Johnson vs Melvin Guillard
From the tape · 8 Mar 2014

Michael Johnson vs Melvin Guillard

UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs Manuwa · London, England, United Kingdom
Result

Michael Johnson beat Melvin Guillard

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightCo-MainReferee · Leon Roberts

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.

Red corner MichaelJohnson“The Menace”Kill Cliff FC · Springfield, Missouri
VSOn the tape
MG
Blue corner MelvinGuillard“The Young Assassin”Genesis Training Cente · New Orleans, Louisiana
Lightweight3 rounds8 Mar 2014
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 8 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
  • 21 UFC bouts deep — 11 more than Johnson.
25-20
Record
32-18-2
−3 yr27
Age
30
+1″5' 10"
Height
5' 9"
+2″73″
Reach
71″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
10
UFC bouts
+1121
3/650% of wins
Finishes
+17%8/1267% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Genesis Training Cente
Springfield, Missouri
From
New Orleans, Louisiana
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Michael Johnson18 sig landed
HEAD22%4 of 22BODY28%5 of 10LEGS50%9 of 11
Melvin Guillard10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 28BODY30%3 of 9LEGS10%1 of 1
18 of 43
Sig.
strikes
10 of 38
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:14
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 3Ground 1
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Michael Johnson16 sig landed
HEAD19%3 of 26BODY38%6 of 15LEGS44%7 of 9
Melvin Guillard6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 27BODY17%1 of 8LEGS17%1 of 2
16 of 50
Sig.
strikes
6 of 37
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Michael Johnson14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 45BODY0%0 of 3LEGS36%5 of 5
Melvin Guillard6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 25BODY0%0 of 2LEGS17%1 of 1
14 of 53
Sig.
strikes
6 of 28
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:00
Control
0:00
Distance 7Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · Leon Roberts
Official totals — Michael Johnson first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Chris Watts1.9 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Tom Harris29–28

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

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.

Michael Johnson

0.57takedowns / 15 min
0.57 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.30 / 15m
1.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.06 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
63%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Melvin Guillard

1.30takedowns / 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.

Michael Johnson↑ +2.7pp
open 56.7%close 59.3%
Melvin Guillard↓ −2.7pp
open 43.3%close 40.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Michael Johnson opened at 56.7% and closed at 59.3% (+2.7pp), with Melvin Guillard 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
Michael Johnson-155-15556.7%59.3%+2.7pp
Melvin Guillard11514043.3%40.7%−2.7pp
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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