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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Anders · Timothy Johnson vs Marcelo Golm
From the tape · 3 Feb 2018

Timothy Johnson vs Marcelo Golm

UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Anders · Belem, Para, Brazil
Result

Timothy Johnson beat Marcelo Golm

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Osiris Maia

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.

TJ
Red corner TimothyJohnson
VSOn the tape
MG
Blue corner MarceloGolmPitangueiras, Sao Paulo
Heavyweight3 rounds3 Feb 2018
The story going in
  • 6 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Golm.
  • Is 13 points more accurate striking than Johnson.
12-4
Record
6-3
32
Age
−7 yr25
6' 3"
Height
6' 3"
+2″77″
Reach
75″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+56
UFC bouts
1
1/333% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
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
Timothy Johnson24 sig landed
HEAD46%11 of 26BODY54%13 of 16LEGS0%0 of 1
Marcelo Golm16 sig landed
HEAD38%6 of 15BODY38%6 of 7LEGS25%4 of 4
24 of 43
Sig.
strikes
16 of 26
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:27
Control
0:12
Distance 6Clinch 18Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 8Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstPhillipe Iorio10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Joseph Terrell10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Timothy Johnson23 sig landed
HEAD52%12 of 23BODY30%7 of 10LEGS17%4 of 5
Marcelo Golm29 sig landed
HEAD79%23 of 31BODY17%5 of 5LEGS3%1 of 1
23 of 38
Sig.
strikes
29 of 37
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:01
Control
0:52
Distance 4Clinch 19Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 19Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstPhillipe Iorio10–9Marcos Rosales9–10Joseph Terrell9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Timothy Johnson30 sig landed
HEAD63%19 of 53BODY17%5 of 6LEGS20%6 of 6
Marcelo Golm14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 21BODY14%2 of 2LEGS7%1 of 1
30 of 65
Sig.
strikes
14 of 24
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:21
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 17Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstPhillipe Iorio10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Joseph Terrell10–9

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 · Osiris Maia
Timothy JohnsonMarcelo Golm
Official totals — Timothy Johnson first
JudgeTotal
Phillipe Iorio30–27
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide29–28
Joseph Terrell2.1 avg spread · 51% wide29–28

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, Timothy Johnson first · unofficial

Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Matthew Wells FanSided.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Johnson · 64%30-27 Johnson · 36%

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.

Timothy Johnson

1.09takedowns / 15 min
1.09 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.45 / 15m
4.54 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.90 / 15m
24%
ACCURACY
50%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Marcelo Golm

0.45takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Timothy Johnson→ no move
open 38.6%close 39.0%
Marcelo Golm→ no move
open 61.4%close 61.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Timothy Johnson opened at 38.6% and closed at 39.0% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Timothy Johnson14514838.6%39.0%+0.4pp
Marcelo Golm-185-17161.4%61.0%−0.4pp
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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