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History · 2022 · UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Holland · Michael Johnson vs Marc Diakiese
From the tape · 3 Dec 2022

Michael Johnson vs Marc Diakiese

UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Holland · Orlando, Florida, USA
Result

Michael Johnson beat Marc Diakiese

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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
MD
Blue corner MarcDiakiese“Bonecrusher”Great Britain Top Team · Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Lightweight3 rounds3 Dec 2022
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 26 UFC bouts deep — 14 more than Diakiese.
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
25-20
Record
17-7
36
Age
−7 yr29
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
73″
Reach
73″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1426
UFC bouts
12
+13%5/1242% of wins
Finishes
2/729% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Great Britain Top Team
Springfield, Missouri
From
Doncaster, South Yorkshire
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 Johnson12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 29BODY42%5 of 10LEGS17%2 of 2
Marc Diakiese23 sig landed
HEAD26%6 of 16BODY39%9 of 14LEGS35%8 of 8
12 of 41
Sig.
strikes
23 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:18
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Troy Wincapaw10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Michael Johnson30 sig landed
HEAD47%14 of 39BODY43%13 of 18LEGS10%3 of 4
Marc Diakiese11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 29BODY45%5 of 6LEGS9%1 of 5
30 of 61
Sig.
strikes
11 of 40
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:06
Control
0:00
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9Troy Wincapaw10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Michael Johnson41 sig landed
HEAD44%18 of 48BODY46%19 of 27LEGS10%4 of 4
Marc Diakiese21 sig landed
HEAD48%10 of 35BODY48%10 of 11LEGS5%1 of 3
41 of 79
Sig.
strikes
21 of 49
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:06
Control
0:00
Distance 38Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9Troy Wincapaw10–9

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 · Keith Peterson
Michael JohnsonMarc Diakiese
Official totals — Michael Johnson first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Troy Wincapaw2.3 avg spread · 55% 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 — 17 scored, Michael Johnson first · unofficial

Dan Levi Best Fight Picks30–27
Bloody Elbow.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Jillian DeCoursey29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Alex Behunin Cageside Press29–28
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Shakiel Mahjouri CBS Sports29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Jake Noecker BetQL28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Johnson · 85%30-27 Johnson · 9%29-28 Diakiese · 4%

66 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
3.29 / 15m
1.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.65 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
43%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Marc Diakiese

3.29takedowns / 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↓ −14.4pp
open 40.4%close 26.0%
Marc Diakiese↑ +14.4pp
open 59.6%close 74.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Michael Johnson opened at 40.4% and closed at 26.0% (−14.4pp), with Marc Diakiese 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 Johnson14026340.4%26.0%−14.4pp
Marc Diakiese-160-36659.6%74.0%+14.4pp
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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