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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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

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
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
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

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.

Judges’ scorecards

Every judge’s round, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Split Decision

Referee · Marc Goddard
Donte JohnsonCody Brundage
Official card — Donte Johnson first
JudgeR1R2R3Total
Derek Cleary2.1 avg spread · 43% wide9–1010–910–929–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide9–1010–99–1028–29
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide9–1010–910–929–28

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.

Still to come on this page

Named rather than hidden. It is built from data already on disk and lands in the next pass of this build-out.

The market story coming in this build-out

What the price did in the week before the cage door shut, with the moment our pick was frozen marked on it. Where we captured no price history for a bout, this panel will say so rather than draw a line that was never there.

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