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History · 2015 · UFC 191: Johnson vs Dodson 2 · Demetrious Johnson vs John Dodson
From the tape · 5 Sep 2015

Demetrious Johnson vs John Dodson

UFC 191: Johnson vs Dodson 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Demetrious Johnson beat John Dodson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Flyweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Herb Dean

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.

DJ
Red corner DemetriousJohnson“Mighty Mouse”AMC Pankration · Kirkland, Washington
VSOn the tape
JD
Blue corner JohnDodson“The Magician”Jackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Flyweight Title5 rounds5 Sep 2015
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 8-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
27-3-1
Record
22-12
−1 yr29
Age
30
5' 3"
Height
5' 3"
66″
Reach
66″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+512
UFC bouts
7
4/1040% of wins
Finishes
+27%4/667% of wins
AMC Pankration
Gym
Jackson-Wink MMA
Kirkland, Washington
From
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Demetrious Johnson13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 22BODY31%4 of 6LEGS31%4 of 5
John Dodson10 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 9BODY60%6 of 8LEGS40%4 of 4
13 of 33
Sig.
strikes
10 of 21
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:10
Control
0:09
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstDerek Cleary10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Demetrious Johnson17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 25BODY29%5 of 8LEGS12%2 of 2
John Dodson13 sig landed
HEAD31%4 of 17BODY54%7 of 9LEGS15%2 of 3
17 of 35
Sig.
strikes
13 of 29
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:30
Control
1:06
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstDerek Cleary10–9Marcos Rosales9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Demetrious Johnson19 sig landed
HEAD84%16 of 26BODY16%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
John Dodson7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 6BODY57%4 of 5LEGS14%1 of 1
19 of 30
Sig.
strikes
7 of 12
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:12
Control
0:24
Distance 10Clinch 9Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstDerek Cleary10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Demetrious Johnson21 sig landed
HEAD67%14 of 25BODY29%6 of 11LEGS5%1 of 2
John Dodson13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 17BODY46%6 of 8LEGS15%2 of 2
21 of 38
Sig.
strikes
13 of 27
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:47
Control
0:54
Distance 14Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstDerek Cleary10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Demetrious Johnson18 sig landed
HEAD67%12 of 27BODY28%5 of 7LEGS6%1 of 1
John Dodson15 sig landed
HEAD33%5 of 20BODY33%5 of 6LEGS33%5 of 6
18 of 35
Sig.
strikes
15 of 32
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:20
Control
0:22
Distance 13Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstDerek Cleary10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Demetrious JohnsonJohn Dodson
Official totals — Demetrious Johnson first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide50–45
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide49–46
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide49–46

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, Demetrious Johnson first · unofficial

John Pollock Fight Network50–45
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com50–45
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com50–45
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com49–46
MM ABrasil.com.br49–46
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com49–46
MM AJunkie.com49–46
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com49–46
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com49–46
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com49–46
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com49–46
MM AMania.com49–46
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com49–46
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Johnson · 51%49-46 Johnson · 33%48-47 Johnson · 13%49-45 Johnson · 1%48-46 Dodson · 1%

87 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.

Demetrious Johnson

3.35takedowns / 15 min
3.35 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.71 / 15m
5.98 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.54 / 15m
56%
ACCURACY
28%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

John Dodson

0.71takedowns / 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.

Demetrious Johnson↑ +5.2pp
open 76.6%close 81.8%
John Dodson↓ −5.2pp
open 23.4%close 18.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Demetrious Johnson opened at 76.6% and closed at 81.8% (+5.2pp), with John Dodson 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
Demetrious Johnson-400-56076.6%81.8%+5.2pp
John Dodson31043023.4%18.2%−5.2pp
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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