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History · 2016 · UFC 195: Lawler vs Condit · Michael McDonald vs Masanori Kanehara
From the tape · 2 Jan 2016

Michael McDonald vs Masanori Kanehara

UFC 195: Lawler vs Condit · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Michael McDonald beat Masanori Kanehara

Method
Submission
Round
2 of 3
Clock
2:09
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Mario YamasakiPOTN

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

MM
Red corner MichaelMcDonald“The Black Sniper”Last Stand Fight Team · Hometown (per Sherdog): Modesto, California
VSOn the tape
MK
Blue corner MasanoriKaneharaReversal Gym Tachikawa Alpha · Hometown (per Sherdog): Musashimurayama, Tokyo
Bantamweight3 rounds2 Jan 2016At the time: Michael McDonald was #8 at Bantamweight · rankings of 21 December 2015
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
  • 7 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Kanehara.
−9 yr24
Age
33
+2″5' 9"
Height
5' 7"
+3″70″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+57
UFC bouts
2
3/560% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Last Stand Fight Team
Gym
Reversal Gym Tachikawa Alpha
Modesto, Californiahometown, per Sherdog
From
Musashimurayama, Tokyohometown, per Sherdog
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. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. 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.

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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Michael McDonald2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 of 1
Masanori Kanehara6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 2BODY67%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 7
Sig.
strikes
6 of 6
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
4:22
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 5
Round 22:09 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 2:09
Michael McDonald3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 4BODY0%0 of 1LEGS33%1 of 1
Masanori Kanehara9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 4BODY78%7 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
3 of 6
Sig.
strikes
9 of 11
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:12
Control
1:26
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 7

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

Michael McDonald

Round
2
Clock
2:09
Method
Submission

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: Mario Yamasaki.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Michael McDonald

1.09takedowns / 15 min
1.09 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.44 / 15m
1.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.88 / 15m
66%
ACCURACY
50%
1.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Masanori Kanehara

1.44takedowns / 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 (5.50 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Michael McDonald↑ +6.2pp
open 75.5%close 81.8%
Masanori Kanehara↓ −6.2pp
open 24.5%close 18.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Michael McDonald opened at 75.5% and closed at 81.8% (+6.2pp), with Masanori Kanehara 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.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Michael McDonald-405-56075.5%81.8%+6.2pp
Masanori Kanehara28542924.5%18.2%−6.2pp
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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