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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Oezdemir vs. Smith · Michael Johnson vs Artem Lobov
From the tape · 27 Oct 2018

Michael Johnson vs Artem Lobov

UFC Fight Night: Oezdemir vs. Smith · Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Result

Michael Johnson beat Artem Lobov

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightCo-MainReferee · Jerin Valel

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.

Red corner MichaelJohnson“The Menace”Kill Cliff FC · Springfield, Missouri
VSOn the tape
AL
Blue corner ArtemLobov“The Russian Hammer”SBG Ireland · Dublin
Featherweight3 rounds27 Oct 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • 19 UFC bouts deep — 13 more than Lobov.
25-20
Record
13-15-1
32
Age
32
+1″5' 10"
Height
5' 9"
+8″73″
Reach
65″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+1319
UFC bouts
6
4/1040% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
SBG Ireland
Springfield, Missouri
From
Dublin
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
Michael Johnson26 sig landed
HEAD35%9 of 32BODY46%12 of 16LEGS19%5 of 6
Artem Lobov22 sig landed
HEAD14%3 of 33BODY23%5 of 8LEGS64%14 of 15
26 of 54
Sig.
strikes
22 of 56
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstEmile Arsenault10–9Douglas Crosby9–10Declan Woods9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Michael Johnson42 sig landed
HEAD45%19 of 60BODY36%15 of 23LEGS19%8 of 8
Artem Lobov31 sig landed
HEAD65%20 of 59BODY13%4 of 5LEGS23%7 of 7
42 of 91
Sig.
strikes
31 of 71
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 42Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstEmile Arsenault10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Declan Woods10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Michael Johnson31 sig landed
HEAD58%18 of 55BODY26%8 of 12LEGS16%5 of 7
Artem Lobov14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 49BODY21%3 of 5LEGS36%5 of 8
31 of 74
Sig.
strikes
14 of 62
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:39
Control
0:00
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstEmile Arsenault10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Declan Woods10–9

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 · Jerin Valel
Michael JohnsonArtem Lobov
Official totals — Michael Johnson first
JudgeTotal
Emile Arsenault30–27
Douglas Crosby29–28
Declan Woods29–28

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 — 16 scored, Michael Johnson first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Matthew Wells FanSided.com30–27
Thiago Kuhl MMABrasil.com.br30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Phil Murphy ESPN30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Johnson · 48%29-28 Lobov · 16%29-28 Johnson · 12%30-24 Lobov · 9%30-26 Johnson · 6%

67 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.

Michael Johnson

0.57takedowns / 15 min
0.57 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.39 / 15m
1.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.56 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
25%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Artem Lobov

0.39takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Michael Johnson↑ +12.5pp
open 70.6%close 83.1%
Artem Lobov↓ −12.5pp
open 29.4%close 16.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Michael Johnson opened at 70.6% and closed at 83.1% (+12.5pp), with Artem Lobov 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
Michael Johnson-300-63270.6%83.1%+12.5pp
Artem Lobov22047129.4%16.9%−12.5pp
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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