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Events · UFC 228: Woodley vs. Till · Jimmie Rivera vs John Dodson
From the tape · 8 Sep 2018

Jimmie Rivera vs John Dodson

UFC 228: Woodley vs. Till · Dallas, Texas, USA
Result

Jimmie Rivera beat John Dodson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

JR
Red corner JimmieRivera“El Terror”Team Tiger Schulmann · Ramsey, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
JD
Blue corner JohnDodson“The Magician”Jackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Bantamweight3 rounds8 Sep 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
  • 13 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Rivera.
23-5
Record
22-12
−4 yr29
Age
33
+1″5' 4"
Height
5' 3"
+2″68″
Reach
66″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
6
UFC bouts
+713
1/520% of wins
Finishes
+36%5/956% of wins
Team Tiger Schulmann
Gym
Jackson-Wink MMA
Ramsey, New Jersey
From
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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
Jimmie Rivera23 sig landed
HEAD39%9 of 13BODY17%4 of 6LEGS43%10 of 11
John Dodson9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 27BODY22%2 of 4LEGS22%2 of 2
23 of 30
Sig.
strikes
9 of 33
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:04
Control
0:02
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rivera firstSteve Armstrong10–9Chris Lee10–9Aladin Martinez10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jimmie Rivera15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 28BODY20%3 of 6LEGS33%5 of 7
John Dodson10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 25BODY60%6 of 6LEGS10%1 of 1
15 of 41
Sig.
strikes
10 of 32
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rivera firstSteve Armstrong10–9Chris Lee10–9Aladin Martinez9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jimmie Rivera24 sig landed
HEAD38%9 of 38BODY38%9 of 9LEGS25%6 of 7
John Dodson22 sig landed
HEAD59%13 of 43BODY32%7 of 7LEGS9%2 of 2
24 of 54
Sig.
strikes
22 of 52
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rivera firstSteve Armstrong10–9Chris Lee10–9Aladin Martinez10–9

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Jimmie RiveraJohn Dodson
Official totals — Jimmie Rivera first
JudgeTotal
Steve Armstrong30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Aladin Martinez29–28

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, Jimmie Rivera first · unofficial

Mike Straus MMAJA30–27
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com30–27
Nolan King MMA- Today.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com29–28
Thiago Kuhl MMABrasil.com.br29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Rivera · 81%29-28 Rivera · 19%

26 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.

Jimmie Rivera

0.88takedowns / 15 min
0.88 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.71 / 15m
3.26 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.54 / 15m
27%
ACCURACY
28%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

John Dodson

0.71takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Jimmie Rivera↓ −5.0pp
open 62.8%close 57.8%
John Dodson↑ +5.0pp
open 37.2%close 42.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jimmie Rivera opened at 62.8% and closed at 57.8% (−5.0pp), with John Dodson 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
Jimmie Rivera-195-14962.8%57.8%−5.0pp
John Dodson15512937.2%42.2%+5.0pp
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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