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History · 2025 · UFC 318: Holloway vs. Poirier 3 · Michael Johnson vs Daniel Zellhuber
From the tape · 19 Jul 2025

Michael Johnson vs Daniel Zellhuber

UFC 318: Holloway vs. Poirier 3 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Result

Michael Johnson beat Daniel Zellhuber

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Kerry Hatley

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
Blue corner DanielZellhuber“Golden Boy”Xtreme Couture · Mexico City
Lightweight3 rounds19 Jul 2025
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Lands 1.2 more significant strikes a minute than Johnson.
  • Has finished 6 of 15 UFC wins.
25-20
Record
15-4
39
Age
−13 yr26
5' 10"
Height
+3″6' 1"
73″
Reach
+4″77″
Southpaw
Stance
Switch
+2530
UFC bouts
5
+7%6/1540% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Xtreme Couture
Springfield, Missouri
From
Mexico City
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 Johnson24 sig landed
HEAD17%4 of 22BODY62%15 of 28LEGS21%5 of 6
Daniel Zellhuber12 sig landed
HEAD17%2 of 23BODY58%7 of 17LEGS25%3 of 6
24 of 56
Sig.
strikes
12 of 46
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:06
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Johnson
Michael Johnson30 sig landed
HEAD47%14 of 47BODY33%10 of 23LEGS20%6 of 7
Daniel Zellhuber17 sig landed
HEAD41%7 of 51BODY53%9 of 14LEGS6%1 of 1
30 of 77
Sig.
strikes
17 of 66
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:16
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Michael Johnson26 sig landed
HEAD35%9 of 31BODY65%17 of 30LEGS0%0 of 1
Daniel Zellhuber23 sig landed
HEAD43%10 of 51BODY48%11 of 17LEGS9%2 of 2
26 of 62
Sig.
strikes
23 of 70
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:08
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Johnson firstDerek Cleary9–10Eric Colón9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10

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 · Kerry Hatley
Michael JohnsonDaniel Zellhuber
Official totals — Michael Johnson first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% 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, Michael Johnson first · unofficial

Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com30–27
Combat Press.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Jake Noecker Home of Fight29–28
Drake Riggs Uncrowned29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Simon Samano MMAJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Johnson · 68%30-27 Johnson · 16%29-28 Zellhuber · 14%30-27 Zellhuber · 1%

77 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
0.14 / 15m
1.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.56 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
25%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Daniel Zellhuber

0.14takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Michael Johnson vs Daniel Zellhuber.

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