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Events · UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs Prates · Ben Johnston vs Wes Schultz
Red corner BenJohnstonThe Fight Centre · Brisbane, Queensland
VSSettled
Blue corner WesSchultzPura Vida BJJ · Madison, Wisconsin
Middleweight3 rounds2 May 2026
The story going in
  • Carries 100 points more takedown defence than Schultz.
  • Lands 1.9 more significant strikes a minute than Johnston.
5-2
Record
9-4
35
Age
−6 yr29
+3″6' 4"
Height
6' 1"
76″
Reach
+1″77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
The Fight Centre
Gym
Pura Vida BJJ
Brisbane, Queensland
From
Madison, Wisconsin
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
Benjamin Johnston
55.9% confidentLOW
Method calledKO/TKO 41%
Vs the market−6.4pp
Market had our pick at62%
The fight
Wes Schultz
LOSS
How it endedSUB
Round3 of 3
Clock1:50
Missed We called Benjamin Johnston at 55.9%Wes Schultz won. The method call missed as well.
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
Ben Johnston7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 7BODY14%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Wes Schultz3 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY100%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 8
Sig.
strikes
3 of 3
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
4:26
Control
0:23
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 3Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Schultz3 sub attempts
Ben Johnston3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Wes Schultz2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 2BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
3 of 3
Sig.
strikes
2 of 3
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:36
Control
1:14
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
3
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 2Ground 0
Round 31:50 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 1:50
Ben Johnston2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Wes Schultz7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 9BODY29%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 5
Sig.
strikes
7 of 11
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:14
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Wes Schultz

Round
3
Clock
1:50
Method
SUB

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Rich Mitchell.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Ben Johnston

2.54takedowns / 15 min
2.54 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.39 / 15m
2.54 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
11.38 / 15m
100%
ACCURACY
21%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
3.60 / 15m

Wes Schultz

2.39takedowns / 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.

Ben Johnston↓ −8.1pp
open 64.1%close 56.0%
Wes Schultz↑ +8.1pp
open 35.9%close 44.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ben Johnston opened at 64.1% and closed at 56.0% (−8.1pp), with Wes Schultz 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.

Our published call had Benjamin Johnston at 55.9%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 56.0% — our number sat 0.1pp 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
Ben Johnston-195-14264.1%56.0%−8.1pp
Wes Schultz17011735.9%44.0%+8.1pp
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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