Round 1
18 of 34
Sig.
strikes
strikes
12 of 19
0 of 2
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:53
Distance 11Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
VSSettled
BS
The story going in
- Has finished 3 of 7 UFC wins.
- Every one of Silva’s 9 UFC wins came inside the distance.
- Carries 14 points more striking defence than Silva.
- 21 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Johnson.
20-9
Record
15-8-2 (as of 2026-05-16)
−1 yr35
Age
36
5' 9"
Height
+3″6' 0"
70″
Reach
+4″74″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
13
UFC bouts
+821
3/743% of wins
Finishes
+57%9/9100% of wins
Murcielago MMA
Gym
Brazilian TKO
St. Louis, Missouri
From
Cajazeiras, Paraiba
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
Charles Johnson
62.4% confidentMED
The fight
Charles Johnson
WIN✓
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 2
33 of 60
Sig.
strikes
strikes
27 of 53
0 of 1
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
1:21
Distance 29Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 3Ended 5:00
34 of 68
Sig.
strikes
strikes
34 of 64
0 of 3
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 3
0:06
Control
1:29
Distance 21Clinch 13Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 32Clinch 2Ground 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 · Keith Peterson
Charles JohnsonBruno Silva
| Judge | R1 | R2 | R3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Bell | 10–9 | 9–10 | 9–10 | 28–29 |
| Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide | 10–9 | 9–10 | 10–9 | 29–28 |
| Anthony Maness1.9 avg spread · 43% wide | 10–9 | 10–9 | 10–9 | 30–27 |
Media cards — 11 scored, Charles Johnson first · unofficial
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Jake Noecker Home of Fight29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Connor The Fight City28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Fan vote · unofficial
29-28 Silva · 38%29-28 Johnson · 22%30-27 Johnson · 20%30-27 Silva · 18%29-27 Johnson · 1%
130 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.