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Events · UFC Fight Night: Lineker vs. Dodson · John Lineker vs John Dodson
From the tape · 1 Oct 2016

John Lineker vs John Dodson

UFC Fight Night: Lineker vs. Dodson · Portland, Oregon, USA
Result

John Lineker beat John Dodson

Method
Decision - Split
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMainReferee · 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.

JL
Red corner JohnLineker“Hands of Stone”Paranagua, Parana
VSOn the tape
JD
Blue corner JohnDodson“The Magician”Jackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Bantamweight5 rounds1 Oct 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Carries 15 points more takedown defence than Lineker.
31-9
Record
22-12
−6 yr26
Age
32
5' 3"
Height
5' 3"
+1″67″
Reach
66″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+211
UFC bouts
9
6/967% of wins
Finishes
+5%5/771% of wins
Paranagua, Parana
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
John Lineker9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 16BODY67%6 of 12LEGS11%1 of 3
John Dodson15 sig landed
HEAD20%3 of 9BODY27%4 of 5LEGS53%8 of 9
9 of 31
Sig.
strikes
15 of 23
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lineker firstSal D'Amato9–10Marcos Rosales9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 25:00 of action
John Lineker16 sig landed
HEAD62%10 of 48BODY25%4 of 16LEGS12%2 of 3
John Dodson15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 22BODY20%3 of 3LEGS33%5 of 6
16 of 67
Sig.
strikes
15 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lineker firstSal D'Amato10–9Marcos Rosales9–10Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 35:00 of action
John Lineker14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 43BODY29%4 of 15LEGS7%1 of 2
John Dodson15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 28BODY27%4 of 5LEGS7%1 of 1
14 of 60
Sig.
strikes
15 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lineker firstSal D'Amato10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 45:00 of action
John Lineker27 sig landed
HEAD44%12 of 59BODY41%11 of 20LEGS15%4 of 4
John Dodson22 sig landed
HEAD68%15 of 35BODY23%5 of 7LEGS9%2 of 2
27 of 83
Sig.
strikes
22 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lineker firstSal D'Amato10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
John Lineker27 sig landed
HEAD52%14 of 57BODY37%10 of 21LEGS11%3 of 3
John Dodson34 sig landed
HEAD62%21 of 46BODY29%10 of 10LEGS9%3 of 3
27 of 81
Sig.
strikes
34 of 59
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:23
Distance 26Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 34Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lineker firstSal D'Amato9–10Marcos Rosales9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · John McCarthy
John LinekerJohn Dodson
Official totals — John Lineker first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide48–47
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide47–48
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide48–47

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 — 23 scored, John Lineker first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com49–46
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com48–47
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com48–47
Patrick Wyman BleacherReport.com48–47
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com48–47
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br48–47
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com48–47
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com48–47
Sheehan SevereMMA.com48–47
John Pollock Fight Network48–47
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com48–47
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com48–47
MM AForum.com.br48–47
Phil Murphy ESPN48–47
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com48–47
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com47–48
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com47–48
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com47–48
MM AMania.com47–48
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com47–48
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com47–48
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com47–48
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Dodson · 39%48-47 Lineker · 38%49-46 Dodson · 8%49-46 Lineker · 6%49-47 Lineker · 3%

270 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
0.71 / 15m
0.97 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.54 / 15m
58%
ACCURACY
28%
0.60 / 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 (5.45 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↓ −1.4pp
open 48.0%close 46.5%
John Dodson↑ +1.4pp
open 52.0%close 53.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

John Lineker opened at 48.0% and closed at 46.5% (−1.4pp), 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
John Lineker-10510648.0%46.5%−1.4pp
John Dodson-125-12652.0%53.5%+1.4pp
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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