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Events · UFC Fight Night: Turcios vs Montes · Donte Johnson vs Cody Brundage
Red corner DonteJohnsonTitletown MMA · Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
VSSettled
Blue corner CodyBrundageFactory X · Brighton, Michigan
Middleweight Bout3 rounds7 Mar 2026
The story going in
  • Carries 11 points more striking defence than Brundage.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
9-0
Record
12-9-1
−4 yr27
Age
31
5' 8"
Height
+4″6' 0"
+2″74″
Reach
72″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+1314
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
4/580% of wins
Titletown MMA
Gym
Factory X
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
From
Brighton, Michigan
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.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Donte Johnson
79.2% confidentHIGH
Method calledSUB 42%
Vs the market−3.1pp
Market had our pick at82%
The fight
Donte Johnson
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Donte Johnson at 79.2% and Donte Johnson won. The method call missed.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

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
Donte Johnson10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 23BODY10%1 of 1LEGS10%1 of 1
Cody Brundage5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS20%1 of 1
10 of 25
Sig.
strikes
5 of 20
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
3:21
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstDerek Cleary9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Donte Johnson13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 28BODY0%0 of 1LEGS8%1 of 1
Cody Brundage6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 8BODY33%2 of 3LEGS50%3 of 3
13 of 30
Sig.
strikes
6 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
3:01
Control
0:45
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstDerek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Donte Johnson22 sig landed
HEAD68%15 of 41BODY14%3 of 6LEGS18%4 of 4
Cody Brundage20 sig landed
HEAD70%14 of 43BODY0%0 landedLEGS30%6 of 6
22 of 51
Sig.
strikes
20 of 49
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:31
Control
0:16
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Johnson firstDerek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo9–10Tony Weeks10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Marc Goddard
Donte JohnsonCody Brundage
Official totals — Donte Johnson first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% 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 — 10 scored, Donte Johnson first · unofficial

Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Drake Riggs Uncrowned29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Brundage · 46%29-28 Johnson · 45%30-27 Johnson · 7%

74 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.

Donte Johnson

2.00takedowns / 15 min
2.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.80 / 15m
2.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.39 / 15m
100%
ACCURACY
41%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Cody Brundage

1.80takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Donte Johnsonclose only
no opening line on recordclose 85.3%
Cody Brundageclose only
no opening line on recordclose 14.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Donte Johnson 85.3%, Cody Brundage 14.7%, vig removed.

Our published call had Donte Johnson at 79.2%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 85.3% — our number sat 6.1pp below the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Donte Johnson-800-80885.3%
Cody Brundage55014.7%
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 2026-03-08 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · scraped 2026-08-30 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for Cody Brundage, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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