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History · 2016 · UFC Fight Night: Lineker vs. Dodson · Joshua Burkman vs Zak Ottow
From the tape · 1 Oct 2016

Joshua Burkman vs Zak Ottow

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

Zak Ottow beat Joshua Burkman

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain 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
ZO
Blue corner ZakOttow“The Barbarian”Pura Vida BJJ · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Welterweight3 rounds1 Oct 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Averages 1.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Ottow.
28-16
Record
17-7
36
Age
−7 yr29
5' 10"
Height
+1″5' 11"
72″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
The Pit Elevated Fight Team
Gym
Pura Vida BJJ
Salt Lake City, Utah
From
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Joshua Burkman17 sig landed
HEAD24%4 of 20BODY18%3 of 7LEGS59%10 of 11
Zak Ottow16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 24BODY19%3 of 7LEGS38%6 of 6
17 of 38
Sig.
strikes
16 of 37
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Joshua Burkman13 sig landed
HEAD31%4 of 29BODY15%2 of 8LEGS54%7 of 10
Zak Ottow28 sig landed
HEAD46%13 of 45BODY29%8 of 8LEGS25%7 of 8
13 of 47
Sig.
strikes
28 of 61
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Joshua Burkman17 sig landed
HEAD24%4 of 25BODY18%3 of 4LEGS59%10 of 12
Zak Ottow21 sig landed
HEAD52%11 of 37BODY14%3 of 5LEGS33%7 of 9
17 of 41
Sig.
strikes
21 of 51
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:16
Control
0:09
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 12Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 1
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Split Decision

Referee · John McCarthy
Official totals — Joshua Burkman first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide28–29

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 18 scored, Joshua Burkman first · unofficial

Sheehan SevereMMA.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
MM AForum.com.br27–30
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com27–30
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com27–30
Marc Raimondi MMAFighting.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
John Pollock Fight Network28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Ottow · 56%29-28 Ottow · 26%29-28 Burkman · 15%

27 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
0.97 / 15m
7.03 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.34 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
29%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Zak Ottow

0.97takedowns / 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

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 Zak Ottow.

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