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Red corner DonteJohnsonTitletown MMA · Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
VSSettled
Blue corner EricMcConicoMMA Lab · Corvallis, Oregon
Middleweight3 rounds15 Aug 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 16 points more striking defence than McConico.
9-0
Record
11-5-1
−9 yr27
Age
36
5' 8"
Height
+4″6' 0"
74″
Reach
+3″77″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
2
UFC bouts
+24
1/250% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
Titletown MMA
Gym
MMA Lab
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
From
Corvallis, Oregon
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
77.4% confidentLOCK
Method calledDEC 38%
Vs the market+3.4pp
Market had our pick at74%
The fight
Donte Johnson
WIN
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 3
Clock1:38
Called it We called Donte Johnson at 77.4% 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

1 round of tape

Round 11:38 of action⚡ 1 KD JohnsonEnded 1:38
Donte Johnson11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 29BODY9%1 of 1LEGS9%1 of 1
Eric McConico6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 13BODY17%1 of 1LEGS17%1 of 1
11 of 31
Sig.
strikes
6 of 15
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:03
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 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

Donte Johnson

Round
1
Clock
1:38
Method
KO/TKO

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: Blake Grice.

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
0.64 / 15m
2.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.64 / 15m
100%
ACCURACY
100%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Eric McConico

0.64takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Donte JohnsonEric McConicoPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Donte Johnson vs Eric McConico — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Donte Johnson and Eric McConico from Aug 06 to Aug 15, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Donte Johnson moves from 22% to 76% and Eric McConico from 78% to 24%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was frozen before the window opened, not at that price.15%25%35%45%55%65%75%85%Aug 6Aug 8Aug 11Aug 13Aug 15▲ we flagged Donte Johnson (LOCK) here76%24%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Donte Johnson's implied chance moved up from 22% to 76% (+53.5pp). Our pick was frozen at the model cutoff, before this window opened — so the gold marker sits at the first snapshot we hold, not at a price we were reacting to.

Our published call had Donte Johnson at 77.4%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 75.5% — our number sat 1.9pp above the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
SeriesOpenLowHighLast captureMove
Donte Johnson — sportsbook consensus67.7%65.9%74.8%74.0%+6.4pp
Eric McConico — sportsbook consensus32.4%25.2%34.1%26.0%−6.4pp
Donte Johnson — Polymarket22.0%21.5%75.5%75.5%+53.5pp
Eric McConico — Polymarket78.0%24.5%78.5%24.5%−53.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 2,713 snapshots on file · window Aug 06 12:09Aug 15 22:30Z · last capture Aug 15, 22:30Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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