Daniel Cormier · MMA Index

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Event	Date
L	CStipe MiocicTitle Heavyweight	Decision (Unanimous) R5 · 5:00	UFC 252: Miocic vs. Cormier 3	Aug 15, 2020
L	#1Stipe MiocicTitle Heavyweight	KO/TKO · Punches to Head At Distance R4 · 4:09	UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 2	Aug 17, 2019
W	#2Derrick LewisTitle Heavyweight	Submission · Rear Naked Choke R2 · 2:14	UFC 230: Cormier vs. Lewis	Nov 3, 2018
W	CStipe MiocicTitle Heavyweight	KO/TKO · Punches to Head In Clinch R1 · 4:33	UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier	Jul 7, 2018
W	#2Volkan OezdemirTitle Light Heavyweight	KO/TKO · Punches to Head From Crucifix R2 · 2:00	UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou	Jan 20, 2018
NC	#1Jon JonesTitle Light Heavyweight	No Contest R3 · 3:01	UFC 214: Cormier vs. Jones 2	Jul 29, 2017
W	#1Anthony JohnsonTitle Light Heavyweight	Submission · Rear Naked Choke R2 · 3:37	UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2	Apr 8, 2017
W	Anderson Silva Light Heavyweight	Decision (Unanimous) R3 · 5:00	UFC 200: Tate vs. Nunes	Jul 9, 2016
W	#2Alexander GustafssonTitle Light Heavyweight	Decision (Split) R5 · 5:00	UFC 192: Cormier vs. Gustafsson	Oct 3, 2015
W	#1Anthony JohnsonTitle Light Heavyweight	Submission · Rear Naked Choke R3 · 2:39	UFC 187: Johnson vs. Cormier	May 23, 2015
L	CJon JonesTitle Light Heavyweight	Decision (Unanimous) R5 · 5:00	UFC 182: Jones vs. Cormier	Jan 3, 2015
W	#6Dan Henderson Light Heavyweight	Submission · Rear Naked Choke Technical Submission R3 · 3:53	UFC 173: Barao vs. Dillashaw	May 24, 2014
W	Patrick Cummins Light Heavyweight	KO/TKO · Punch to Head In Clinch R1 · 1:19	UFC 170: Rousey vs. McMann	Feb 22, 2014
W	#9Roy Nelson Heavyweight	Decision (Unanimous) R3 · 5:00	UFC 166: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos 3	Oct 19, 2013
W	#7Frank Mir Heavyweight	Decision (Unanimous) R3 · 5:00	UFC on FOX: Henderson vs. Melendez	Apr 20, 2013

Outside the UFC

Via Sherdog

11-0across 11 bouts · 4 promotions · wins by 7 KO · 1 sub · 3 decStrikeforce · XMMA · KOTC · XMMA 2

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Promotion	Date
W	Dion Staring36-15	TKO (Punches) R2 · 4:02	Strikeforce	Jan 12, 2013
W	Josh Barnett35-8	Decision (Unanimous) R5 · 5:00	Strikeforce	May 19, 2012
W	Antonio Silva19-15-1	KO (Punches) R1 · 3:56	Strikeforce	Sep 10, 2011
W	Jeff Monson60-26-1	Decision (Unanimous) R3 · 5:00	Strikeforce	Jun 18, 2011
W	Devin Cole20-10-1	Decision (Unanimous) R3 · 5:00	Strikeforce	Jan 7, 2011
W	Soa Palelei22-5	TKO (Submission to Punches) R1	XMMA	Nov 5, 2010
W	Jason Riley10-8	TKO (Submission to Punches) R1 · 1:02	Strikeforce	Aug 21, 2010
W	Tony Johnson18-11-1	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke) R1 · 2:27	KOTC	Aug 13, 2010
W	Lucas Browne	TKO (Punches) R1 · 4:35	XMMA 2	Jul 31, 2010
W	John Devine6-4	KO (Punch) R1 · 1:09	Strikeforce	Mar 26, 2010
W	Gary Frazier	TKO (Punches) R2 · 3:39	Strikeforce	Sep 25, 2009

Non-UFC bouts (regional/other promotions via Sherdog) and Dana White’s Contender Series — shown for context only, excluded from Schedule Score, striking/grappling rates, and every UFC-scoped metric.

Method of victory & defeat

KO / TKO

10 wins, 1 loss

W10

L1

Submission

5 wins, 0 losses

W5

L0

Decision

7 wins, 2 losses

W7

L2

Pro record data: Sherdog.

Finishes

UFC KOs

3

Above avg · 19%Heavyweight

Knockdowns / fight

0.14

Below avg · 0.24Heavyweight

UFC submissions

4

Above avg · 7%Heavyweight

Submission attempts / fight

0.57

Above avg · 0.25Heavyweight

KO history

UFC fights only — knockout power, chin durability, and when the last finish landed. Genuine knockouts are kept separate from cut, injury, and corner stoppages.

Daniel Cormier

PowerChin

Knockout rate

21%

3 KO/TKO wins

Knockdowns dealt

2

0.31 per 100 head

Clean KO losses

1

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

4

1.06 per 100 head

Chin gauges use a league scale: green = clean record, red = bottom ~10% of UFC fighters (4+ KO losses · 6+ knockdowns absorbed).

Never submittedin the UFC

Decision behavior

Judging

6 scorecards on file

Daniel Cormier

Scorecard luck

Cards have leaned their way

Won 1 of 1 coin-flip decision — the kind of close calls that have tended to fall their way. Judges have given them 4 of 6 rounds they disagreed on (67%).

Coin-flip decisions

Split + majority

1–0

Won – Lost

Swing rounds

Judges disagreed

4–2

Won – Lost

67% went their way

Unanimous5 decisions · 83%

3W2L

Split1 decision · 17%

1W

Majority

None

10-8 rounds

3 rounds total

3

Won

0

Lost

Most frequent judges

All judges →

Scorecard data ingested from MMA Decisions

Career striking

OverallB65th

52%853 / 1,524

Striking accuracy

54%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min+1.33 differential

Landed4.25

Absorbed2.92

67%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

+6%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head77%86th653
Body13%54th107
Leg11%59th93

Color = division rank · green elite → red low · % = share of strikes

Sig. strikes by position

59%Standing

Standing59%500
Clinch23%197
Ground18%156

Striking zones

Per-15-minute breakdown — where this fighter lands, and where they get hit.

UFC only

Daniel Cormier

Landed per 15

Head

A+

88th

50.4

88th

Body

C

53rd

8.3

53rd

Leg

B

59th

7.2

59th

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Absorbed per 15

Head

C

54th

29.2

54th

Body

F

24th

12.9

24th

Leg

C

51st

6.7

51st

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Career totals — landed / attempted

Landed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	50.4	653	1,260	52%
Body	8.3	107	151	71%
Leg	7.2	93	113	82%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	29.2	379	988	38%
Body	12.9	167	213	78%
Leg	6.7	87	104	84%

Per-15-minute rates and totals come from UFCStats fight-totals across this fighter’s UFC career. Percentile context is computed against every fighter currently assigned to this weight class with at least two recorded UFC bouts. “Absorbed” percentiles are inverted so “top of division” always means better outcome.

Grappling

Per-15-minute breakdown of takedowns, submissions, and ground control.

UFC only

Daniel Cormier

49%

Takedown accuracy

74%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min+3.3 min net

On top4.9

On bottom1.6

Offense

Takedowns

B

67th

1.8

67th

TD accuracy

B

69th

49%

69th

Sub attempts

A

71st

0.6

71st

Control

A

73rd

4.9 min

73rd

Defense

TD defense

B

65th

74%

65th

Controlled

—

1.6 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	23 / 47
Submission attempts	8
Control time	62:52

Defense

TDs defended	23 / 31
Control absorbed	20:24

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (194min total). Value colors reflect the per-15 rate’s percentile against the current weight class baseline; raw totals without a division reference stay neutral.

Pace & fade

How this fighter's work rate holds up as a fight wears on — round-by-round output (striking, takedown attempts, and control time combined), and whether they fade. The fade % compares round-3 output to round 1 over bouts that reached the third round.

UFC only

Daniel Cormier

14 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 194 min

103%

R3 pace · 9 bouts

Cormier sustains 103% of round-1 work rate by round 3, across 9 UFC bouts that reached the third round.

Cormier — HOLDSOutput / min

Rounds backed by fewer than 2 bouts are drawn smaller and dimmed with an n= count — a deep round seen in one or two fights is a thin sample, not a settled rate. Per-round bout counts are in the breakdown below.

Full per-round breakdown

What drives the pace · per round

The composite output line above blends these three inputs — splitting them out shows whether the work rate is built on striking volume, takedown pressure, or top control, and which input fades.

Sig. strikes landed

Cormierlanded / min

Takedown attempts

Cormierattempts / min

Control time

Cormier% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	6.4	3.8	2.6	0.29	44%	14
R2	7.3	4.8	2.8	0.26	41%	12
R3	6.6	4.9	3.7	0.22	26%	9
R4	5.2	5.0	5.5	0.05	2%	4
R5	4.7	3.6	3.7	0.27	7%	3

Output / minis the headline work rate — significant strikes landed, plus 3 per takedown attempt, plus one per 15 seconds of control — so a takedown-and-grind round isn’t scored as idle the way bare striking volume would. The remaining columns are its components. Per-round rates use UFCStats per-round data (available for ~95% of bouts since 2008). Each round’s rates are averaged only over bouts that reached that round, so the bout count shrinks as rounds deepen. The final round of a finished fight is pro-rated by its actual length.

Schedule Score

Who they've faced × what they've done. Percentile-ranked across every UFC fighter w/ ≥3 resolved bouts. Recent fights weighted heavier.

UFC only

Daniel Cormier

15 resolved UFC bouts · 13 ranked at the time

Schedule Score

97/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

A+

100th

90%

100th

Win quality

A+

99th

86%

99th

How to read this

Every UFC opponent is scored by where they were ranked and what their UFC record was at the time of that fight — not where they sit today. Both are 0–100 ratings (shown as %). Schedule strength is the recency-weighted average of opponent quality; win quality scores actual results against that schedule (finishes count more than splits, losses cost the full opp quality). The headline is a percentile rank against every UFC fighter with at least three resolved bouts. Note: UFC ranking data is sparse before December 2018, so legacy-era fighters score from opponent UFC record-at-time when ranks are missing.

Opponent quality distribution

Every UFC bout, grouped by who the opponent was at the time.

5

7

2

ChampionHeld the title in this weight class at the time
Top-5Ranked #1–#5 at the time
Top-15Ranked #6–#15 at the time
Cross-div champHeld a title in another weight class at the time

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Champion	5	1-3, 1 NC	25%
Top-5	7	7-0	100%
Top-15	2	2-0	100%
Cross-div champ	1	1-0	100%

Highest-quality opponents

Toughest opponents on the scheduleScore, scored at the time of the fight.

All bouts — opponent quality bout-by-bout

Res	Opponent	Tier	Score	Date
L	Stipe MiocicCHAMP	Champion	100	Aug 15, 2020
L	Stipe Miocic#1	Champion	97	Aug 17, 2019
W	Derrick Lewis#2	Top-5	87	Nov 3, 2018
W	Stipe MiocicCHAMP	Champion	100	Jul 7, 2018
W	Volkan Oezdemir#2	Top-5	87	Jan 20, 2018
NC	Jon Jones#1	Champion	98	Jul 29, 2017
W	Anthony Johnson#1	Top-5	90	Apr 8, 2017
W	Anderson Silva	Cross-div champ	67	Jul 9, 2016
W	Alexander Gustafsson#2	Top-5	89	Oct 3, 2015
W	Anthony Johnson#1	Top-5	90	May 23, 2015
L	Jon JonesCHAMP	Champion	100	Jan 3, 2015
W	Dan Henderson#6	Top-5	90	May 24, 2014
W	Patrick Cummins	Top-15	48	Feb 22, 2014
W	Roy Nelson#9	Top-15	73	Oct 19, 2013
W	Frank Mir#7	Top-5	76	Apr 20, 2013

Per-bout quality scoring: champion = 100; same-division ranks 1–5 = 90 → 78 linear; ranks 6–15 = 75 → 60 linear; cross-division champion = 78; cross-division ranked = 45; title-fight challenger (no rank signal) = 50, bumped to 65 when opp had an elite career UFC record at the time. Unranked opponents are scored on UFC record-at-time (long-tenured vet 60, contender-level 45, established 30, building 18, unproven 8). P4P top-10 at time adds +5; top-3 adds +8 (capped at 100). The Schedule Score combines schedule strength (65%) and quality wins (35%), then is held toward a rookie baseline for fighters with limited UFC experience so a thin résumé reads honestly low.

Career cohorts

14 resolved UFC bouts

Performance broken down by situation — camp length, response to the previous result, title-fight presence, and rematches. Computed across every completed UFC bout.

Camp length

Days between fights

Short turnaround

< 100 days

1-0

1 bout

Typical camp

100–180 days

5-0

5 bouts

Long layoff

> 180 days

4-3

7 bouts

UFC debut

first UFC bout

1-0

1 bout

Post-result bounce

Performance based on the previous UFC result

After a loss

next bout after a defeat

1-1

2 bouts

After a win

next bout after a win

9-2

11 bouts

First UFC bout

no precedent

1-0

1 bout

Title fights

Performance with a belt on the line

All title fights

as challenger or champion

6-3

9 bouts

As champion

defending the belt

4-1

5 bouts

As challenger

fighting for the belt

2-2

4 bouts

Rematches

Performance when meeting an opponent again

All rematches

any second meeting

1-2

3 bouts

Revenge bouts

lost the first meeting

—

Encore bouts

won the first meeting

1-2

3 bouts

Activity & layoff

When this fighter last competed, how often they've been active, and how that reads against active peers in their division.

Time since last UFC bout

5y 9mo

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Daniel Cormier

Extended layoff

5y 9mosince last bout

vs Stipe Miocic · Aug 15, 2020