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Events · UFC Fight Night: Barnett vs Nelson · Naoyuki Kotani vs Kajan Johnson
From the tape · 26 Sep 2015

Naoyuki Kotani vs Kajan Johnson

UFC Fight Night: Barnett vs Nelson · Saitama, Japan
Result

Kajan Johnson beat Naoyuki Kotani

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Greg Kleynjans

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.

NK
Red corner NaoyukiKotaniRodeo Style · Yokosuka, Kanagawa
VSOn the tape
KJ
Blue corner KajanJohnson“Ragin”Tristar Gym · Burns Lake, British Columbia
Lightweight3 rounds26 Sep 2015
The story going in
  • Has dropped 4 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 14 points more striking defence than Kotani.
34-14-7
Record
23-13-1
33
Age
−2 yr31
5' 8"
Height
+3″5' 11"
66″
Reach
+9″75″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+24
UFC bouts
2
Rodeo Style
Gym
Tristar Gym
Yokosuka, Kanagawa
From
Burns Lake, British Columbia
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
Naoyuki Kotani1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 1
Kajan Johnson13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 25BODY23%3 of 5LEGS8%1 of 1
1 of 8
Sig.
strikes
13 of 31
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kotani firstHowie Booth9–10Mark Craig9–10Albert Shen9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Johnson
Naoyuki Kotani6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 9BODY33%2 of 8LEGS33%2 of 3
Kajan Johnson38 sig landed
HEAD95%36 of 57BODY5%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 20
Sig.
strikes
38 of 59
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
1:07
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 30
Judges · this round · Kotani firstHowie Booth9–10Mark Craig9–10Albert Shen9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Naoyuki Kotani14 sig landed
HEAD93%13 of 24BODY0%0 of 2LEGS7%1 of 1
Kajan Johnson6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 13BODY17%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 27
Sig.
strikes
6 of 14
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:42
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kotani firstHowie Booth10–9Mark Craig10–9Albert Shen9–10

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 · Greg Kleynjans
Naoyuki KotaniKajan Johnson
Official totals — Naoyuki Kotani first
JudgeTotal
Howie Booth1.8 avg spread · 33% wide28–29
Mark Craig28–29
Albert Shen2.4 avg spread · 61% 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 — 11 scored, Naoyuki Kotani first · unofficial

Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–29
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com27–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com27–29
MM AMania.com27–29
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer27–29
MM AJunkie.com27–29
Severe MMA.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-27 Johnson · 70%29-28 Johnson · 20%30-27 Johnson · 10%

10 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.

Naoyuki Kotani

0.83takedowns / 15 min
0.83 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.54 / 15m
5.19 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.16 / 15m
16%
ACCURACY
37%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Kajan Johnson

1.54takedowns / 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.

Naoyuki Kotani↓ −4.9pp
open 32.1%close 27.1%
Kajan Johnson↑ +4.9pp
open 67.9%close 72.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Naoyuki Kotani opened at 32.1% and closed at 27.1% (−4.9pp), with Kajan 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
Naoyuki Kotani19025532.1%27.1%−4.9pp
Kajan Johnson-270-31067.9%72.9%+4.9pp
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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