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Michael Johnson
“The Menace”
Lightweight
United StatesUFC
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25WINS
20LOSSES
0DRAWS
10KO/TKO
2SUB
13DEC
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Tale of the tape
- Age
- 40 · born Jun 4, 1986 UFC.com
- Height
- 5′10″ 178 cm UFC.com
- Reach
- 73.5″ 187 cm UFC.com
- Leg reach
- 41″ 104 cm UFC.com
- Stance
- Southpaw UFCStats
- Weight class
- Lightweight UFC.com
- Fighting style
- Boxing UFC.com
- Team / gym
- Jaco Hybrid Training Center UFC.com
- Born
- St. Louis, United States UFC.com
- Fights out of / flag
- United States UFC.com
- UFC debut
- Dec. 5, 2010 UFC.com
- 1st-round finishes
- 8 UFC.com
UFC.com: UFC.com athlete profile (official) · checked 2026-10-22 · UFCStats: UFCStats.com fighter page (data via the public ufcstats.com mirror, snapshot 2026-10-18)
UFC career stats
40%Striking accuracy1568 of 3961 landed
22%Takedown accuracy8⚑ of 36 landed
4.27Sig. strikes landedper min
3.78Sig. strikes absorbedper min
59%Striking defense
0.57Takedownsper 15 min
81%Takedown defense
0.04Submission attemptsper 15 min
0.53Knockdownsper 15 min
11:28Average fight time
⚑ = UFC.com and UFCStats disagree on this number. We show the official UFC.com figure and have flagged it for review.
Source: UFC.com athlete profile (official) (UFC stats are for UFC bouts only) · checked 2026-10-22
UFC fight history 32 bouts
| Res | Opponent | Method | Rd | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L | Drew Dober | KO/TKO | 2 | Mar 7, 2026 | ↗ |
| W | Daniel Zellhuber | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Jul 19, 2025 | ↗ |
| W | Ottman Azaitar | KO/TKO | 2 | Dec 14, 2024 | ↗ |
| W | Darrius Flowers | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Feb 10, 2024 | ↗ |
| L | Diego Ferreira | KO/TKO | 2 | May 20, 2023 | ↗ |
| W | Marc Diakiese | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Dec 3, 2022 | ↗ |
| L | Jamie Mullarkey | Decision - Split | 3 | Jul 9, 2022 | ↗ |
| W | Alan Patrick | KO/TKO | 2 | May 14, 2022 | ↗ |
| L | Clay Guida | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Feb 6, 2021 | ↗ |
| L | Thiago Moises | Submission | 2 | May 13, 2020 | ↗ |
| L | Stevie Ray | Decision - Majority | 3 | Oct 26, 2019 | ↗ |
| L | Josh Emmett | KO/TKO | 3 | Mar 30, 2019 | ↗ |
| W | Artem Lobov | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Oct 27, 2018 | ↗ |
| W | Andre Fili | Decision - Split | 3 | Aug 25, 2018 | ↗ |
| L | Darren Elkins | Submission | 2 | Jan 14, 2018 | ↗ |
| L | Justin Gaethje | KO/TKO | 2 | Jul 7, 2017 | ↗ |
| L | Khabib Nurmagomedov | Submission | 3 | Nov 12, 2016 | ↗ |
| W | Dustin Poirier | KO/TKO | 1 | Sep 17, 2016 | ↗ |
| L | Nate Diaz | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Dec 19, 2015 | ↗ |
| L | Beneil Dariush | Decision - Split | 3 | Aug 8, 2015 | ↗ |
| W | Edson Barboza | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Feb 22, 2015 | ↗ |
| W | Melvin Guillard | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Mar 8, 2014 | ↗ |
| W | Gleison Tibau | KO/TKO | 2 | Dec 28, 2013 | ↗ |
| W | Joe Lauzon | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Aug 17, 2013 | ↗ |
| L | Reza Madadi | Submission | 3 | Apr 6, 2013 | ↗ |
| L | Myles Jury | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Dec 29, 2012 | ↗ |
| W | Danny Castillo | KO/TKO | 2 | Oct 5, 2012 | ↗ |
| W | Tony Ferguson | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | May 5, 2012 | ↗ |
| W | Shane Roller | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Jan 28, 2012 | ↗ |
| L | Paul Sass | Submission | 1 | Oct 1, 2011 | ↗ |
| W | Edward Faaloloto | KO/TKO | 1 | Jun 26, 2011 | ↗ |
| L | Jonathan Brookins | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Dec 4, 2010 | ↗ |
UFC bouts only. Source: UFCStats.com bout pages (via the public mirror, snapshot 2026-10-18) · checked 2026-10-22. Bouts outside the UFC aren’t listed because we only republish history we can trace to an official source.