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Events · UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Craig · Charles Johnson vs Rafael Estevam
From the tape · 18 Nov 2023

Charles Johnson vs Rafael Estevam

UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Craig · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Rafael Estevam beat Charles Johnson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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 CharlesJohnson“InnerG”Murcielago MMA · St. Louis, Missouri
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RafaelEstevam“Macapa”Nova Uniao · Macapa, Amapa
Flyweight3 rounds18 Nov 2023
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 4.4 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Johnson.
  • Lands 2.4 more significant strikes a minute than Estevam.
20-9
Record
14-1
32
Age
−5 yr27
+1″5' 9"
Height
5' 8"
+1″70″
Reach
69″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
Murcielago MMA
Gym
Nova Uniao
St. Louis, Missouri
From
Macapa, Amapa
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
Charles Johnson7 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY14%1 of 1LEGS86%6 of 6
Rafael Estevam8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 9BODY38%3 of 6LEGS25%2 of 3
7 of 9
Sig.
strikes
8 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:20
Control
3:49
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Johnson firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Flores9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Charles Johnson11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 15BODY27%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Rafael Estevam1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 6BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 20
Sig.
strikes
1 of 7
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 7
0:07
Control
3:55
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Johnson firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Flores9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Charles Johnson54 sig landed
HEAD56%30 of 52BODY43%23 of 27LEGS2%1 of 1
Rafael Estevam9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 13BODY33%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
54 of 80
Sig.
strikes
9 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 11
0:16
Control
1:39
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 44Clinch 10Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Flores10–9

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 · Chris Tognoni
Charles JohnsonRafael Estevam
Official totals — Charles Johnson first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Chris Flores1.9 avg spread · 44% wide28–29

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 — 13 scored, Charles Johnson first · unofficial

Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Jake Noecker Cageside Press28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Alex Behunin MMA Mania28–29
Bloody Elbow.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Estevam · 58%29-28 Johnson · 12%29-27 Johnson · 10%28-26 Estevam · 5%

40 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.

Charles Johnson

0.51takedowns / 15 min
0.51 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.91 / 15m
3.19 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
14.88 / 15m
16%
ACCURACY
33%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Rafael Estevam

4.91takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

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.

Charles Johnson↓ −11.0pp
open 54.3%close 43.3%
Rafael Estevam↑ +11.0pp
open 45.7%close 56.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Charles Johnson opened at 54.3% and closed at 43.3% (−11.0pp), with Rafael Estevam 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
Charles Johnson-13011954.3%43.3%−11.0pp
Rafael Estevam110-14945.7%56.7%+11.0pp
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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