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Anthony Johnson

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Association: Sanford MMA
Pro Debut Date: 2006-08-18
Pro Record: 23-6-0
Win Finish %: 73.9%
Quality Perf. %: 72.4%
Last Ranked: 7/01/2018

#3 Light Heavyweight

Highest Quarterly Ranking: 4/01/2018

#2 Light Heavyweight

All-Time Rank:

#21 Light Heavyweight
Last Loss Date: 4/08/2017
Last Loss: [NR] Daniel Cormier
UFC Record: 13-6-0
Octagon Time: 1:57:19
Title Bouts: 0-2-0
Longest Win Streak: 3 (2015-2016)
Next Best Win Streak: 3 (2014-2015)
UFC Debut: 2007-06-12
Last UFC Fight: 2017-04-08

Complete Professional MMA Fight History
Fighter rankings represent most recent generated quarterly rating prior to the fight

  Opponent Outcome
W Jose Augusto KO (Punch)
Round 2
  Bellator 258 - Archuleta vs. Pettis
Friday, May 7th 2021
L Daniel Cormier
#2 Light Heavyweight 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 2
  UFC 210 - Cormier vs. Johnson 2
Saturday, April 8th 2017
W Glover Teixeira
#4 Light Heavyweight 		TKO
Round 1
  UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2
Saturday, August 20th 2016
W Ryan Bader
#4 Light Heavyweight 		KO (Punches)
Round 1
  UFC on FOX 18: Johnson vs. Bader
Saturday, January 30th 2016
W Jimi Manuwa
#15 Light Heavyweight 		KO (Punches)
Round 2
  UFC 191 - Johnson vs. Dodson 2
Saturday, September 5th 2015
L Daniel Cormier
#3 Light Heavyweight 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 3
  UFC 187: Johnson vs. Cormier
Saturday, May 23rd 2015
W Alexander Gustafsson
#6 Light Heavyweight 		TKO (Punches)
Round 1
  UFC on Fox 14 - Gustafsson vs. Johnson
Saturday, January 24th 2015
W Antonio Rogerio Nogueira KO (Punches)
Round 1
  UFC on Fox 12 - Lawler vs. Brown
Saturday, July 26th 2014
W Phil Davis
#3 Light Heavyweight 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
  UFC 172 - Jones vs. Teixeira
Saturday, April 26th 2014
W Mike Kyle
#28 Heavyweight 		KO (Punches)
Round 1
  WSOF 8 - Gaethje vs. Patishnock
Saturday, January 18th 2014
W Andrei Arlovski
#18 Heavyweight 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
  WSOF 2 - Arlovski vs. Johnson
Saturday, March 23rd 2013
W D.J. Linderman
#28 Heavyweight 		KO (Punch)
Round 1
  WSOF 1: Arlovski vs. Cole
Saturday, November 3rd 2012
W Jake Rosholt
#92 Light Heavyweight 		TKO (Head Kick)
Round 2
  XFL - Xtreme Fight Night 9
Friday, September 21st 2012
W Esteves Jones
#126 Heavyweight 		TKO (Punches)
Round 2
  Titan FC 24 - Titan Fighting Championship 24
Friday, August 24th 2012
W David Branch
#48 Middleweight 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
  TFC 22 - Titan Fighting Championship 22
Friday, May 25th 2012
L Vitor Belfort
#5 Middleweight 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 1
  UFC 142 - Aldo vs. Mendes
Saturday, January 14th 2012
W Charlie Brenneman
#16 Welterweight 		KO (Head Kick)
Round 1
  UFC Live 6 - Cruz vs. Johnson
Saturday, October 1st 2011
W Dan Hardy
#16 Welterweight 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
  UFC - Fight Night 24
Saturday, March 26th 2011
L Josh Koscheck
#4 Welterweight 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 2
  UFC 106 - Ortiz vs. Griffin 2
Saturday, November 21st 2009
W Yoshiyuki Yoshida
#39 Welterweight 		TKO (Punches)
Round 1
  UFC 104 - Machida vs. Shogun
Saturday, October 24th 2009
W Luigi Fioravanti
#36 Welterweight 		TKO (Punches)
Round 1
  UFC - Fight Night 17
Saturday, February 7th 2009
W Kevin Burns
#28 Welterweight 		KO (Head Kick)
Round 3
  UFC - The Ultimate Fighter 8 Finale
Saturday, December 13th 2008
L Kevin Burns
#35 Welterweight 		TKO (Eye Injury)
Round 3
  UFC - Fight Night 14
Saturday, July 19th 2008
W Tom Speer
#82 Welterweight 		KO (Punches)
Round 1
  UFC - Fight Night 13
Wednesday, April 2nd 2008
L Rich Clementi
#92 Welterweight 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 2
  UFC 76 - Knockout
Saturday, September 22nd 2007
W Chad Reiner
#45 Welterweight 		KO (Punches)
Round 1
  UFC - Fight Night 10
Tuesday, June 12th 2007
W Keith Wilson
#94 Lightweight 		Decision (Majority)
Round 2
  Rocky Mountain Nationals - Demolition
Saturday, September 16th 2006
W Rich Moskowitz
#179 Welterweight 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 2
  Rocky Mountain Nationals - Demolition
Saturday, September 16th 2006
W Jonathan Romero TKO (Punches)
Round 1
PF 2 - Live MMA
Friday, August 18th 2006
  Opponent Event Outcome
W Jose Augusto   Bellator 258 - Archuleta vs. Pettis
Friday, May 7th 2021 		KO (Punch)
Round 2
L Daniel Cormier
#2 Light Heavyweight 		  UFC 210 - Cormier vs. Johnson 2
Saturday, April 8th 2017 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 2
W Glover Teixeira
#4 Light Heavyweight 		  UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2
Saturday, August 20th 2016 		TKO
Round 1
W Ryan Bader
#4 Light Heavyweight 		  UFC on FOX 18: Johnson vs. Bader
Saturday, January 30th 2016 		KO (Punches)
Round 1
W Jimi Manuwa
#15 Light Heavyweight 		  UFC 191 - Johnson vs. Dodson 2
Saturday, September 5th 2015 		KO (Punches)
Round 2
L Daniel Cormier
#3 Light Heavyweight 		  UFC 187: Johnson vs. Cormier
Saturday, May 23rd 2015 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 3
W Alexander Gustafsson
#6 Light Heavyweight 		  UFC on Fox 14 - Gustafsson vs. Johnson
Saturday, January 24th 2015 		TKO (Punches)
Round 1
W Antonio Rogerio Nogueira   UFC on Fox 12 - Lawler vs. Brown
Saturday, July 26th 2014 		KO (Punches)
Round 1
W Phil Davis
#3 Light Heavyweight 		  UFC 172 - Jones vs. Teixeira
Saturday, April 26th 2014 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
W Mike Kyle
#28 Heavyweight 		  WSOF 8 - Gaethje vs. Patishnock
Saturday, January 18th 2014 		KO (Punches)
Round 1
W Andrei Arlovski
#18 Heavyweight 		  WSOF 2 - Arlovski vs. Johnson
Saturday, March 23rd 2013 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
W D.J. Linderman
#28 Heavyweight 		  WSOF 1: Arlovski vs. Cole
Saturday, November 3rd 2012 		KO (Punch)
Round 1
W Jake Rosholt
#92 Light Heavyweight 		  XFL - Xtreme Fight Night 9
Friday, September 21st 2012 		TKO (Head Kick)
Round 2
W Esteves Jones
#126 Heavyweight 		  Titan FC 24 - Titan Fighting Championship 24
Friday, August 24th 2012 		TKO (Punches)
Round 2
W David Branch
#48 Middleweight 		  TFC 22 - Titan Fighting Championship 22
Friday, May 25th 2012 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
L Vitor Belfort
#5 Middleweight 		  UFC 142 - Aldo vs. Mendes
Saturday, January 14th 2012 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 1
W Charlie Brenneman
#16 Welterweight 		  UFC Live 6 - Cruz vs. Johnson
Saturday, October 1st 2011 		KO (Head Kick)
Round 1
W Dan Hardy
#16 Welterweight 		  UFC - Fight Night 24
Saturday, March 26th 2011 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
L Josh Koscheck
#4 Welterweight 		  UFC 106 - Ortiz vs. Griffin 2
Saturday, November 21st 2009 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 2
W Yoshiyuki Yoshida
#39 Welterweight 		  UFC 104 - Machida vs. Shogun
Saturday, October 24th 2009 		TKO (Punches)
Round 1
W Luigi Fioravanti
#36 Welterweight 		  UFC - Fight Night 17
Saturday, February 7th 2009 		TKO (Punches)
Round 1
W Kevin Burns
#28 Welterweight 		  UFC - The Ultimate Fighter 8 Finale
Saturday, December 13th 2008 		KO (Head Kick)
Round 3
L Kevin Burns
#35 Welterweight 		  UFC - Fight Night 14
Saturday, July 19th 2008 		TKO (Eye Injury)
Round 3
W Tom Speer
#82 Welterweight 		  UFC - Fight Night 13
Wednesday, April 2nd 2008 		KO (Punches)
Round 1
L Rich Clementi
#92 Welterweight 		  UFC 76 - Knockout
Saturday, September 22nd 2007 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 2
W Chad Reiner
#45 Welterweight 		  UFC - Fight Night 10
Tuesday, June 12th 2007 		KO (Punches)
Round 1
W Keith Wilson
#94 Lightweight 		  Rocky Mountain Nationals - Demolition
Saturday, September 16th 2006 		Decision (Majority)
Round 2
W Rich Moskowitz
#179 Welterweight 		  Rocky Mountain Nationals - Demolition
Saturday, September 16th 2006 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 2
W Jonathan Romero PF 2 - Live MMA
Friday, August 18th 2006 		TKO (Punches)
Round 1

Quarterly Generated Historical Rankings
Rating bar represents the fighter's standing relative to the top of the division at the time

Date ↑ ↓ Rank Record Points
07/01/2018 1 #3 Light Heavyweight 22-6-0
819
04/01/2018   #2 Light Heavyweight 22-6-0
944
01/01/2018 1 #2 Light Heavyweight 22-6-0
965
10/01/2017   #3 Light Heavyweight 22-6-0
1004
07/01/2017   #3 Light Heavyweight 22-6-0
1004
04/01/2017   #3 Light Heavyweight 22-5-0
1229
01/01/2017   #3 Light Heavyweight 22-5-0
1229
10/01/2016   #3 Light Heavyweight 22-5-0
1229
07/01/2016 1 #3 Light Heavyweight 21-5-0
1041
04/01/2016 1 #2 Light Heavyweight 21-5-0
1041
01/01/2016   #3 Light Heavyweight 20-5-0
782
10/01/2015   #3 Light Heavyweight 20-5-0
782
07/01/2015 1 #3 Light Heavyweight 19-5-0
751
04/01/2015 2 #2 Light Heavyweight 19-4-0
920
01/01/2015   #4 Light Heavyweight 18-4-0
717
10/01/2014 1 #4 Light Heavyweight 18-4-0
717
07/01/2014 9 #5 Light Heavyweight 17-4-0
580
04/01/2014 1 #14 Light Heavyweight 16-4-0
300
01/01/2014   #15 Light Heavyweight 15-4-0
275
10/01/2013 1 #15 Light Heavyweight 15-4-0
275
07/01/2013 1 #14 Light Heavyweight 15-4-0
275
04/01/2013   #13 Light Heavyweight 15-4-0
275
01/01/2013 6 #13 Light Heavyweight 14-4-0
231
10/01/2012   #19 Light Heavyweight 13-4-0
187
07/01/2012 17 #19 Light Heavyweight 11-4-0
176
04/01/2012 NR #36 Light Heavyweight 10-4-0
104
01/01/2012 2 #12 Welterweight 10-3-0
269
10/01/2011 11 #10 Welterweight 10-3-0
269
07/01/2011 2 #21 Welterweight 9-3-0
190
04/01/2011 18 #19 Welterweight 9-3-0
190
01/01/2011 10 #37 Welterweight 8-3-0
117
10/01/2010 1 #27 Welterweight 8-3-0
127
07/01/2010 1 #28 Welterweight 8-3-0
127
04/01/2010 6 #27 Welterweight 8-3-0
127
01/01/2010 4 #21 Welterweight 8-3-0
127
10/01/2009 4 #25 Welterweight 7-2-0
114
07/01/2009 2 #21 Welterweight 7-2-0
114
04/01/2009 7 #23 Welterweight 7-2-0
114
01/01/2009 63 #30 Welterweight 6-2-0
87
10/01/2008 32 #93 Welterweight 5-2-0
49
07/01/2008 NR #61 Welterweight 5-1-0
58
04/01/2008 6 #164 Middleweight 4-1-0
36
01/01/2008 3 #158 Middleweight 4-1-0
36
10/01/2007 NR #155 Middleweight 4-1-0
36
07/01/2007 72 #47 Welterweight 4-0-0
57
04/01/2007 6 #119 Welterweight 3-0-0
34
01/01/2007 2 #113 Welterweight 3-0-0
34
10/01/2006 NR #111 Welterweight 3-0-0
34


A fighter's rank (US) state is assigned based on the state that the fighter most frequently fought in professionally, within the past three years. If there is a tie, the most recent state is used. The Win-Loss-Draw record for the fighter in the "Big Leagues". The Big Leagues refer to the top organizations based on a statistical analysis we performed. Some organizations were counted as one, due to mergers, etc. A quality performance is a fight in which the fighter fought an acceptable opponent, and substantiated their current rating (at the time) based on the outcome. At it's most basic level, one can equate "combat age" to "dog years" in that it will mirror the basic human lifecycle. With this computation, we expect fighters to hit their respective "peak" in the years that your typical adult "peaks" in life, somewhere between 25 and 40. We will expect most fighters to start their descent at some point in their 40s and be far removed from their peak by 60. This is an experimental metric that attempts to reflect a fighter's recent opposition quality. The metric goes back 1,080 days, and looks at all the fighter's opponents' W-L-D records within a window of 540 days before, and 540 days after their respective bout(s) with the fighter. All of the records are added up and the cumulative win percentage is presented by this metric in a "strength of schedule" format. These ranking sets have been generated by a recent version of the software, using recent data and will not match previously published issues of the rankings, especially since a majority of these generated sets are for dates much earlier than the site’s inception.
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