In his first fight at light heavyweight, and after a lengthy injury layoff, Adam Milstead couldn’t do much to stop Jordan Johnson ’s clinch game, and it led to a split-decision loss. Fighting nearly 30 pounds lighter than his most recent bout, Milstead (8-2 MMA, 1-1 UFC) got a bizarre 30-27 score from one judge. But Johnson (9-0 MMA, 3-0 UFC) got a pair of 29-28s to take a split-call win in the curtain jerker. The light heavyweight bout opened up the preliminary card of today’s UFC 222 event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. It streamed on UFC Fight Pass ahead of additional prelims on FS1 and a main card on pay-per-view
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UFC 222 results: Jordan Johnson uses clinch game to take split from Adam Milstead – MMA Junkie