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Events · UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs Mir · Edson Barboza vs Michael Johnson
From the tape · 22 Feb 2015

Edson Barboza vs Michael Johnson

UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs Mir · Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Result

Michael Johnson beat Edson Barboza

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 EdsonBarboza“Junior”American Top Team · Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MichaelJohnson“The Menace”Kill Cliff FC · Springfield, Missouri
Lightweight3 rounds22 Feb 2015
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 7 UFC wins.
24-15
Record
25-20
29
Age
−1 yr28
+1″5' 11"
Height
5' 10"
+2″75″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
11
UFC bouts
11
+13%5/956% of wins
Finishes
3/743% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro
From
Springfield, Missouri
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
Edson Barboza13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 18BODY62%8 of 12LEGS0%0 of 3
Michael Johnson14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 61BODY7%1 of 7LEGS21%3 of 5
13 of 33
Sig.
strikes
14 of 73
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:04
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barboza firstMarco Aurelio Borges9–10Guilherme Bravo9–10Mark Collett9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Edson Barboza7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 26BODY43%3 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Michael Johnson14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 53BODY7%1 of 5LEGS14%2 of 2
7 of 33
Sig.
strikes
14 of 60
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:35
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barboza firstMarco Aurelio Borges9–10Guilherme Bravo9–10Mark Collett9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Edson Barboza11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 26BODY45%5 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Michael Johnson10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 43BODY20%2 of 7LEGS20%2 of 4
11 of 32
Sig.
strikes
10 of 54
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:22
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Barboza firstMarco Aurelio Borges9–10Guilherme Bravo10–9Mark Collett9–10

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 · Leon Roberts
Edson BarbozaMichael Johnson
Official totals — Edson Barboza first
JudgeTotal
Marco Aurelio Borges27–30
Guilherme Bravo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide28–29
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide27–30

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 — 14 scored, Edson Barboza first · unofficial

Cage Pages.com27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com27–30
Severe MMA.com27–30
MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com27–30
Wrestling Observer28–29
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Johnson · 79%29-28 Johnson · 5%29-28 Barboza · 5%30-28 Johnson · 3%

38 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.

Edson Barboza

0.43takedowns / 15 min
0.43 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.57 / 15m
0.86 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.50 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
38%
0.10 / 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.

Edson Barboza↑ +1.6pp
open 53.8%close 55.4%
Michael Johnson↓ −1.6pp
open 46.2%close 44.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Edson Barboza opened at 53.8% and closed at 55.4% (+1.6pp), with Michael Johnson 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
Edson Barboza-140-13353.8%55.4%+1.6pp
Michael Johnson10011846.2%44.6%−1.6pp
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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