Michael Bell
Scoring active Feb 23, 2013 – Jul 18, 2026.
Bouts judged
502
Rounds scored
1618
10-8 rounds
71
4.4% of rounds
Minority cards
33
6.6% of bouts
Recent vs career
Bouts (12mo)
56
502 career
10-8 share (12mo)
3.3%-1.1pp
4.4% career
Minority cards (12mo)
4+0.6pp
7.1% recent · 6.6% career
Rounds (12mo)
184
1618 career
Round-scoring tendencies
Score
Judge
League
10-9
95.2%
96.0%
10-8
4.4%
3.5%
10-7
0.0%
0.0%
10-10
0.0%
0.1%
9-9
0.4%
0.3%
Other
0.1%
0.1%
Round-by-round score patterns called by this judge (1,618 rounds) vs the UFC league average across every judged round in our corpus. A taller 10-8 share suggests a judge willing to call dominant rounds; an outsized 10-10 share flags an unusually permissive scoring style.
Most-scored fighters
Merab Dvalishvili7 bouts scored7–0for / against
Ketlen Vieira6 bouts scored5–1for / against
Rob Font6 bouts scored2–4for / against
Belal Muhammad5 bouts scored3–2for / against
Matthew Semelsberger5 bouts scored3–2for / against
Raoni Barcelos5 bouts scored3–1–1for / against
Youssef Zalal5 bouts scored3–2for / against
Angela Hill5 bouts scored2–3for / against
Jose Aldo5 bouts scored2–3for / against
Dan Ige5 bouts scored1–4for / against
Norma Dumont4 bouts scored4–0for / against
Court McGee4 bouts scored3–1for / against
Fighters Michael Bellhas scored at least twice. “Scored for” counts bouts where Michael Bell's card had this fighter winning; “against” counts the opposite.
Career timeline
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Bouts judged per calendar year. Peak: 85.
Recent bouts
Alden Coria vs Stewart Nicoll
UFC Fight Night: Du Plessis vs Usman · Jul 18, 2026 · Flyweight
30 – 27
Dricus Du Plessis vs Kamaru Usman
UFC Fight Night: Du Plessis vs Usman · Jul 18, 2026 · Middleweight
49 – 46
Ezra Elliott vs Damien Anderson
UFC Fight Night: Du Plessis vs Usman · Jul 18, 2026 · Featherweight
29 – 28
Kevin Borjas vs Andre Lima
UFC Fight Night: Kape vs. Horiguchi · Jun 20, 2026 · Flyweight
29 – 28
Luana Santos vs Karol Rosa
UFC Fight Night: Kape vs. Horiguchi · Jun 20, 2026 · Women's Bantamweight
30 – 27
Gabriel Bonfim vs Belal Muhammad
UFC Fight Night: Muhammad vs. Bonfim · Jun 6, 2026 · Welterweight
50 – 45
Tom Nolan vs Fares Ziam
UFC Fight Night: Muhammad vs. Bonfim · Jun 6, 2026 · Lightweight
29 – 28
Marcus McGhee vs John Yannis
UFC Fight Night: Muhammad vs. Bonfim · Jun 6, 2026 · Bantamweight
29 – 28
Davey Grant vs Adrian Luna Martinetti
UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs. Zalal · Apr 25, 2026 · Bantamweight
29 – 28
Aljamain Sterling vs Youssef Zalal
UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs. Zalal · Apr 25, 2026 · Featherweight
49 – 45
10-8
Talita Alencar vs Julia Polastri
UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs. Zalal · Apr 25, 2026 · Women's Strawweight
29 – 28
Cody Durden vs Jafel Filho
UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs. Zalal · Apr 25, 2026 · Bantamweight
30 – 27
Raoni Barcelos vs Montel Jackson
UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs. Zalal · Apr 25, 2026 · Bantamweight
29 – 28
Melissa Croden vs Daria Zhelezniakova
UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Malott · Apr 18, 2026 · Women's Bantamweight
29 – 28
Thomas Petersen vs Guilherme Pat
UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Duncan · Apr 4, 2026 · Heavyweight
29 – 27
10-8
Virna Jandiroba vs Tabatha Ricci
UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Duncan · Apr 4, 2026 · Women's Strawweight
29 – 28
Kai Kamaka III vs Dakota Hope
UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Duncan · Apr 4, 2026 · Lightweight
28 – 29
Minority
Dione Barbosa vs Melissa Gatto
UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Duncan · Apr 4, 2026 · Women's Flyweight
28 – 28
Minority
Alexia Thainara vs Bruna Brasil
UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Pyfer · Mar 28, 2026 · Women's Strawweight
30 – 27
Tofiq Musayev vs Ignacio Bahamondes
UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Pyfer · Mar 28, 2026 · Lightweight
30 – 27
Minority card = this judge's verdict differed from the majority of judges on the same bout. 10-8 rounds reflect the share of rounds this judge scored 10-8 (one fighter ≥ 10, the other ≤ 8). League averages on the score-distribution chart cover every UFC judge's rounds in our corpus. Source: MMA Decisions.