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History · 2016 · UFC 198: Werdum vs Miocic · John Lineker vs Rob Font
From the tape · 14 May 2016

John Lineker vs Rob Font

UFC 198: Werdum vs Miocic · Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
Result

John Lineker beat Rob Font

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Kevin MacDonald

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.

JL
Red corner JohnLineker“Hands of Stone”Paranagua, Parana
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RobFontNew England Cartel · Boston, Massachusetts
Bantamweight3 rounds14 May 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
31-9
Record
22-10
−3 yr25
Age
28
5' 3"
Height
+5″5' 8"
67″
Reach
+4″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+79
UFC bouts
2
5/771% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
Paranagua, Parana
From
Boston, Massachusetts
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
John Lineker17 sig landed
HEAD29%5 of 29BODY53%9 of 19LEGS18%3 of 5
Rob Font17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 34BODY24%4 of 8LEGS18%3 of 4
17 of 53
Sig.
strikes
17 of 46
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:25
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lineker firstHallison Pontes10–9Otto Torriero10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 25:00 of action
John Lineker21 sig landed
HEAD38%8 of 38BODY29%6 of 9LEGS33%7 of 9
Rob Font15 sig landed
HEAD73%11 of 39BODY7%1 of 3LEGS20%3 of 3
21 of 56
Sig.
strikes
15 of 45
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:03
Control
0:01
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lineker firstHallison Pontes10–9Otto Torriero9–10Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
John Lineker42 sig landed
HEAD55%23 of 49BODY31%13 of 16LEGS14%6 of 9
Rob Font8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 21BODY0%0 landedLEGS25%2 of 2
42 of 74
Sig.
strikes
8 of 23
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:05
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 21
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lineker firstHallison Pontes10–8Otto Torriero10–9Glenn 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 · Kevin MacDonald
John LinekerRob Font
Official totals — John Lineker first
JudgeTotal
Hallison Pontes2.0 avg spread · 40% wide30–26
Otto Torriero29–28
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 — 18 scored, John Lineker first · unofficial

Youngs TheMMACorner.com30–26
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–26
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–26
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com30–27
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–27
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com30–27
Severe MMA.com30–27
Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br30–27
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
Dana Becker FightLine.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com30–27
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Lineker · 58%30-26 Lineker · 21%30-25 Lineker · 12%29-28 Lineker · 4%29-27 Lineker · 4%

24 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.

John Lineker

0.56takedowns / 15 min
0.56 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.70 / 15m
0.97 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.41 / 15m
58%
ACCURACY
29%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Rob Font

0.70takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

John Lineker↑ +4.1pp
open 55.8%close 59.9%
Rob Font↓ −4.1pp
open 44.2%close 40.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

John Lineker opened at 55.8% and closed at 59.9% (+4.1pp), with Rob Font 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
John Lineker-150-16355.8%59.9%+4.1pp
Rob Font11014144.2%40.1%−4.1pp
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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