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Events · UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland · Jamie Mullarkey vs John Makdessi
From the tape · 9 Sep 2023

Jamie Mullarkey vs John Makdessi

UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Result

Jamie Mullarkey beat John Makdessi

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Jim Perdios

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 JamieMullarkeyCity Kickboxing · Central Coast, New South Wales
VSOn the tape
JM
Blue corner JohnMakdessi“The Bull”Tristar Gym · Halifax, Nova Scotia
Lightweight3 rounds9 Sep 2023
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Averages 2.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Makdessi.
  • 19 UFC bouts deep — 11 more than Mullarkey.
18-9
Record
18-9
−9 yr29
Age
38
+4″6' 0"
Height
5' 8"
+6″74″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
8
UFC bouts
+1119
+23%2/450% of wins
Finishes
3/1127% of wins
City Kickboxing
Gym
Tristar Gym
Central Coast, New South Wales
From
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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
Jamie Mullarkey22 sig landed
HEAD23%5 of 24BODY18%4 of 8LEGS59%13 of 13
John Makdessi24 sig landed
HEAD25%6 of 27BODY42%10 of 16LEGS33%8 of 8
22 of 45
Sig.
strikes
24 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Mullarkey firstMark Christie10–9Eric Colón10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jamie Mullarkey37 sig landed
HEAD46%17 of 40BODY22%8 of 10LEGS32%12 of 12
John Makdessi21 sig landed
HEAD52%11 of 40BODY24%5 of 16LEGS24%5 of 5
37 of 62
Sig.
strikes
21 of 61
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 37Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Mullarkey firstMark Christie9–10Eric Colón10–9David Lethaby9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jamie Mullarkey29 sig landed
HEAD55%16 of 56BODY3%1 of 2LEGS41%12 of 14
John Makdessi38 sig landed
HEAD53%20 of 52BODY18%7 of 13LEGS29%11 of 11
29 of 72
Sig.
strikes
38 of 76
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 38Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Mullarkey firstMark Christie10–9Eric Colón9–10David Lethaby10–9

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 · Jim Perdios
Jamie MullarkeyJohn Makdessi
Official totals — Jamie Mullarkey first
JudgeTotal
Mark Christie29–28
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide29–28

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, Jamie Mullarkey first · unofficial

Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com29–28
Edwin Ayala Sherdog.com28–29
Jake Noecker Cageside Press28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Bloody Elbow.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv28–29
MM AJunkie.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Makdessi · 83%29-28 Mullarkey · 10%30-27 Makdessi · 5%30-27 Mullarkey · 1%

209 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.

Jamie Mullarkey

2.46takedowns / 15 min
2.46 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
8.20 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
30%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

John Makdessi

0.00takedowns / 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.

Jamie Mullarkey↑ +9.7pp
open 61.0%close 70.7%
John Makdessi↓ −9.7pp
open 39.0%close 29.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jamie Mullarkey opened at 61.0% and closed at 70.7% (+9.7pp), with John Makdessi 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
Jamie Mullarkey-188-28261.0%70.7%+9.7pp
John Makdessi14022739.0%29.3%−9.7pp
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% · dated 2023-09-10 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · 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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