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Events · UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Lee · Justin Willis vs Chase Sherman
From the tape · 21 Apr 2018

Justin Willis vs Chase Sherman

UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Lee · Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Result

Justin Willis beat Chase Sherman

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

JW
Red corner JustinWillis“Big Pretty”American Kickboxing Academy · San Jose, California
VSOn the tape
CS
Blue corner ChaseSherman“The Vanilla Gorilla”Jackson-Wink MMA · D'Iberville, Mississippi
Heavyweight3 rounds21 Apr 2018
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 38 points more takedown defence than Willis.
  • Is 14 points more accurate striking than Sherman.
8-2
Record
16-12
30
Age
−2 yr28
6' 1"
Height
+3″6' 4"
78″
Reach
78″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+35
1/250% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
American Kickboxing Academy
Gym
Jackson-Wink MMA
San Jose, California
From
D'Iberville, Mississippi
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Willis
Justin Willis38 sig landed
HEAD89%34 of 51BODY11%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Chase Sherman17 sig landed
HEAD41%7 of 28BODY35%6 of 7LEGS24%4 of 4
38 of 55
Sig.
strikes
17 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:32
Control
0:44
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 21Clinch 5Ground 12
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 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
Justin Willis21 sig landed
HEAD90%19 of 27BODY10%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Chase Sherman21 sig landed
HEAD48%10 of 26BODY24%5 of 8LEGS29%6 of 8
21 of 29
Sig.
strikes
21 of 42
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:54
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 1
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Justin Willis17 sig landed
HEAD88%15 of 23BODY12%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Chase Sherman31 sig landed
HEAD55%17 of 36BODY42%13 of 18LEGS3%1 of 2
17 of 25
Sig.
strikes
31 of 56
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:34
Control
1:17
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 14Ground 0
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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Marc Goddard
Official totals — Justin Willis first
JudgeTotal
Jon Bilyk29–28
Dominic Carolei29–28
Munah Holland29–28

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 — 13 scored, Justin Willis first · unofficial

Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–27
Anton Tabuena BloodyElbow.com29–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Rafael Oreiro MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com29–28
Nolan King MMA- Today.com29–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
Phil Murphy ESPN29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Willis · 71%29-27 Willis · 24%

17 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.

Justin Willis

0.96takedowns / 15 min
0.96 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.09 / 15m
1.45 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.18 / 15m
66%
ACCURACY
50%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Chase Sherman

0.09takedowns / 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.

Justin Willis↑ +7.8pp
open 64.4%close 72.2%
Chase Sherman↓ −7.8pp
open 35.6%close 27.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Justin Willis opened at 64.4% and closed at 72.2% (+7.8pp), with Chase Sherman 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
Justin Willis-215-29564.4%72.2%+7.8pp
Chase Sherman16524735.6%27.8%−7.8pp
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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