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Events · UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Volkov · Stevie Ray vs Kajan Johnson
From the tape · 17 Mar 2018

Stevie Ray vs Kajan Johnson

UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Volkov · London, England, United Kingdom
Result

Kajan Johnson beat Stevie Ray

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Leon Roberts

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.

SR
Red corner StevieRay“Braveheart”Elite Team · California
VSOn the tape
KJ
Blue corner KajanJohnson“Ragin”Tristar Gym · Burns Lake, British Columbia
Lightweight3 rounds17 Mar 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Lands 1.3 more significant strikes a minute than Johnson.
  • Carries 10 points more striking defence than Ray.
23-9
Record
23-13-1
−6 yr27
Age
33
5' 10"
Height
+1″5' 11"
70″
Reach
+5″75″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+37
UFC bouts
4
+7%2/540% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Elite Team
Gym
Tristar Gym
California
From
Burns Lake, British Columbia
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
Stevie Ray4 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 9BODY25%1 of 3LEGS75%3 of 5
Kajan Johnson14 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY50%7 of 8LEGS50%7 of 9
4 of 17
Sig.
strikes
14 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ray firstDavid Lethaby9–10Andy Roberts9–10Paul Sutherland10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Stevie Ray4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%2 of 2
Kajan Johnson11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 8BODY36%4 of 5LEGS36%4 of 4
4 of 15
Sig.
strikes
11 of 17
2 of 2
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:50
Control
2:14
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 6
Judges · this round · Ray firstDavid Lethaby9–10Andy Roberts9–10Paul Sutherland9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Stevie Ray16 sig landed
HEAD100%16 of 30BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Kajan Johnson8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 10BODY25%2 of 3LEGS25%2 of 3
16 of 30
Sig.
strikes
8 of 16
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:50
Control
1:58
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Ray firstDavid Lethaby10–9Andy Roberts10–9Paul Sutherland10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Leon Roberts
Stevie RayKajan Johnson
Official totals — Stevie Ray first
JudgeTotal
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Andy Roberts1.9 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Paul Sutherland2.2 avg spread · 52% 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 — 13 scored, Stevie Ray first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29
Shawn Bitter MMA- Today.com28–29
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Josh Stillman Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–29
MM AMania.com29–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Johnson · 42%29-28 Ray · 33%30-28 Ray · 7%30-27 Ray · 4%

55 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.

Stevie Ray

0.75takedowns / 15 min
0.75 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.54 / 15m
1.63 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.16 / 15m
46%
ACCURACY
37%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Kajan Johnson

1.54takedowns / 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

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.

Stevie Ray↑ +5.3pp
open 59.9%close 65.2%
Kajan Johnson↓ −5.3pp
open 40.1%close 34.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Stevie Ray opened at 59.9% and closed at 65.2% (+5.3pp), with Kajan Johnson 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
Stevie Ray-175-21059.9%65.2%+5.3pp
Kajan Johnson13517740.1%34.8%−5.3pp
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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