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Events · UFC 183: Silva vs Diaz · Ian McCall vs John Lineker
From the tape · 31 Jan 2015

Ian McCall vs John Lineker

UFC 183: Silva vs Diaz · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

John Lineker beat Ian McCall

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

IM
Red corner IanMcCall“Uncle Creepy”Team Oyama · Dana Point, California
VSOn the tape
JL
Blue corner JohnLineker“Hands of Stone”Paranagua, Parana
Flyweight3 rounds31 Jan 2015
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Carries 21 points more takedown defence than Lineker.
  • Lands 1.8 more significant strikes a minute than McCall.
13-5-1
Record
31-9
30
Age
−6 yr24
+2″5' 5"
Height
5' 3"
64″
Reach
+3″67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
5
UFC bouts
+27
0/20% of wins
Finishes
4/580% of wins
Dana Point, California
From
Paranagua, Parana
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 action1 sub attempt
Ian McCall13 sig landed
HEAD23%3 of 12BODY46%6 of 9LEGS31%4 of 5
John Lineker3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 6BODY0%0 of 2LEGS67%2 of 5
13 of 26
Sig.
strikes
3 of 13
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:10
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · McCall firstDave Hagen10–9Chris Lee10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Ian McCall11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 19BODY64%7 of 7LEGS9%1 of 1
John Lineker18 sig landed
HEAD39%7 of 26BODY56%10 of 13LEGS6%1 of 2
11 of 27
Sig.
strikes
18 of 41
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:21
Control
0:46
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · McCall firstDave Hagen9–10Chris Lee9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ian McCall16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 27BODY56%9 of 11LEGS0%0 of 1
John Lineker17 sig landed
HEAD65%11 of 54BODY35%6 of 13LEGS0%0 landed
16 of 39
Sig.
strikes
17 of 67
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · McCall firstDave Hagen9–10Chris Lee9–10Tony Weeks9–10

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 · John McCarthy
Ian McCallJohn Lineker
Official totals — Ian McCall first
JudgeTotal
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide28–29

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 — 16 scored, Ian McCall first · unofficial

Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com27–29
Severe MMA.com28–29
John Pollock Fight Network28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
Cage Pages.com28–29
Fergus O' Farrell Setanta28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Marc Raimondi MMAFighting.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Wrestling Observer28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Lineker · 77%29-28 McCall · 10%29-27 Lineker · 3%

31 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.

Ian McCall

2.08takedowns / 15 min
2.08 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.56 / 15m
6.93 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.97 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
58%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

John Lineker

0.56takedowns / 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.

Ian McCall↑ +5.4pp
open 61.4%close 66.7%
John Lineker↓ −5.4pp
open 38.6%close 33.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ian McCall opened at 61.4% and closed at 66.7% (+5.4pp), with John Lineker 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
Ian McCall-185-22061.4%66.7%+5.4pp
John Lineker14519238.6%33.3%−5.4pp
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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