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Events · UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs Thompson · Joshua Burkman vs KJ Noons
From the tape · 6 Feb 2016

Joshua Burkman vs KJ Noons

UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs Thompson · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Joshua Burkman beat KJ Noons

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain 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.

JB
Red corner JoshuaBurkman“The People's Warrior”The Pit Elevated Fight Team · Salt Lake City, Utah
VSOn the tape
KN
Blue corner KJNoons“King”
Lightweight3 rounds6 Feb 2016
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 14 points more striking defence than Burkman.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
28-16
Record
13-9
35
Age
−2 yr33
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
+2″72″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+813
UFC bouts
5
2/540% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
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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
Joshua Burkman19 sig landed
HEAD11%2 of 15BODY26%5 of 7LEGS63%12 of 15
KJ Noons3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 6BODY33%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 37
Sig.
strikes
3 of 7
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Burkman firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Joshua Burkman24 sig landed
HEAD25%6 of 24BODY12%3 of 3LEGS62%15 of 17
KJ Noons10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 11BODY40%4 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
24 of 44
Sig.
strikes
10 of 18
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:27
Control
0:00
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Burkman firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Joshua Burkman14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 20BODY21%3 of 3LEGS21%3 of 4
KJ Noons20 sig landed
HEAD90%18 of 33BODY10%2 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 27
Sig.
strikes
20 of 38
2 of 9
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:37
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 10Ground 0
Judges · this round · Burkman firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9

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 · John McCarthy
Joshua BurkmanKJ Noons
Official totals — Joshua Burkman first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide30–27
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide30–27

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, Joshua Burkman first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–27
Adrian MacNair MMAMania.com29–28
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Burkman · 36%30-27 Burkman · 27%30-26 Burkman · 18%29-28 Noons · 9%30-26 Noons · 9%

11 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.

Joshua Burkman

2.53takedowns / 15 min
2.53 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.08 / 15m
7.03 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.40 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
20%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

KJ Noons

0.08takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Joshua Burkman vs KJ Noons.

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