This Saturday Hooker vs Parnasse · Accor Arena Paris France See this week's picks →
History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Till · Jason Knight vs Makwan Amirkhani
From the tape · 27 May 2018

Jason Knight vs Makwan Amirkhani

UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Till · Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Result

Makwan Amirkhani beat Jason Knight

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain 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.

JK
Red corner JasonKnight“The Kid”Alan Belcher MMA Club · D'Iberville, Mississippi
VSOn the tape
MA
Blue corner MakwanAmirkhani“Mr. Finland”SBG Ireland · Turku
Featherweight3 rounds27 May 2018
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Averages 2.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Knight.
20-5
Record
17-9
−4 yr25
Age
29
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
71″
Reach
+1″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+37
UFC bouts
4
2/450% of wins
Finishes
+17%2/367% of wins
Alan Belcher MMA Club
Gym
SBG Ireland
D'Iberville, Mississippi
From
Turku
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⚡ 2 KD Knight1 sub attempt
Jason Knight15 sig landed
HEAD33%5 of 22BODY13%2 of 11LEGS53%8 of 9
Makwan Amirkhani9 sig landed
HEAD100%9 of 27BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
15 of 42
Sig.
strikes
9 of 27
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:10
Control
0:14
2
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Knight firstMark Collett10–9Howard Hughes10–9Andy Roberts10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jason Knight12 sig landed
HEAD33%4 of 24BODY33%4 of 7LEGS33%4 of 5
Makwan Amirkhani13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 24BODY0%0 landedLEGS8%1 of 1
12 of 36
Sig.
strikes
13 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
1:42
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Knight firstMark Collett9–10Howard Hughes9–10Andy Roberts10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jason Knight2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%1 of 4
Makwan Amirkhani5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 9BODY20%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 10
Sig.
strikes
5 of 10
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
4:04
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 5
Judges · this round · Knight firstMark Collett9–10Howard Hughes9–10Andy Roberts10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Jason KnightMakwan Amirkhani
Official totals — Jason Knight first
JudgeTotal
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide28–29
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Andy Roberts1.9 avg spread · 44% wide30–27

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 — 22 scored, Jason Knight first · unofficial

Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Sean Ross Sapp Fightful.com28–29
Kendrick Johnson The Ring28–29
Youngs FanSided.com28–29
Chris Connor The Fight City28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29
Marc Raimondi MMAFighting.com28–29
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport28–29
Severe MMA.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com28–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Amirkhani · 51%29-28 Knight · 26%30-27 Knight · 5%29-27 Knight · 3%

116 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.

Jason Knight

1.31takedowns / 15 min
1.31 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.96 / 15m
4.23 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.21 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
43%
1.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Makwan Amirkhani

3.96takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Jason Knight↓ −3.7pp
open 65.3%close 61.6%
Makwan Amirkhani↑ +3.7pp
open 34.7%close 38.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jason Knight opened at 65.3% and closed at 61.6% (−3.7pp), with Makwan Amirkhani 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
Jason Knight-230-17565.3%61.6%−3.7pp
Makwan Amirkhani17015234.7%38.4%+3.7pp
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.
← Every fighter on the record