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Events · UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov · Michael Johnson vs Clay Guida
From the tape · 6 Feb 2021

Michael Johnson vs Clay Guida

UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Clay Guida beat Michael Johnson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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
CG
Blue corner ClayGuida“The Carpenter”Team Alpha Male · Round Lake, Illinois
Lightweight3 rounds6 Feb 2021
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 4 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 15 UFC wins.
25-20
Record
38-22
−5 yr34
Age
39
+3″5' 10"
Height
5' 7"
+3″73″
Reach
70″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
23
UFC bouts
+629
4/1136% of wins
Finishes
+4%6/1540% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Team Alpha Male
Springfield, Missouri
From
Round Lake, Illinois
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 Johnson31 sig landed
HEAD84%26 of 55BODY13%4 of 10LEGS3%1 of 1
Clay Guida29 sig landed
HEAD72%21 of 36BODY17%5 of 5LEGS10%3 of 3
31 of 66
Sig.
strikes
29 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:33
Control
1:24
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 27Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Michael Johnson14 sig landed
HEAD93%13 of 26BODY7%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Clay Guida13 sig landed
HEAD31%4 of 15BODY46%6 of 6LEGS23%3 of 3
14 of 27
Sig.
strikes
13 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
1:04
Control
2:50
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 7Ground 1
Judges · this round · Johnson firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Michael Johnson13 sig landed
HEAD100%13 of 32BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Clay Guida7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 20BODY14%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 33
Sig.
strikes
7 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:26
Control
2:39
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Johnson firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10Tony Weeks9–10

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 · Mark Smith
Michael JohnsonClay Guida
Official totals — Michael Johnson first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide27–30

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 — 20 scored, Michael Johnson first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com26–30
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com27–30
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges28–29
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Nick Baldwin theScore28–29
Shakiel Mahjouri Fightful.com28–29
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Guida · 54%30-27 Guida · 24%29-28 Johnson · 9%30-28 Guida · 4%30-26 Guida · 4%

46 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
3.10 / 15m
1.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.86 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
35%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Clay Guida

3.10takedowns / 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.

Michael Johnson↓ −10.9pp
open 75.0%close 64.1%
Clay Guida↑ +10.9pp
open 25.0%close 35.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Michael Johnson opened at 75.0% and closed at 64.1% (−10.9pp), with Clay Guida 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-350-20375.0%64.1%−10.9pp
Clay Guida28516625.0%35.9%+10.9pp
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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