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History · 2011 · UFC Live: Cruz vs Johnson · Dominick Cruz vs Demetrious Johnson
From the tape · 1 Oct 2011

Dominick Cruz vs Demetrious Johnson

UFC Live: Cruz vs Johnson · Washington, DC, USA
Result

Dominick Cruz beat Demetrious Johnson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Bantamweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Kevin Mulhall

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.

DC
Red corner DominickCruz“The Dominator”Alliance MMA · San Diego, California
VSOn the tape
DJ
Blue corner DemetriousJohnson“Mighty Mouse”AMC Pankration · Kirkland, Washington
Bantamweight Title5 rounds1 Oct 2011
The story going in
  • Carries 18 points more takedown defence than Johnson.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Is 21 points more accurate striking than Cruz.
24-4
Record
27-3-1
26
Age
−1 yr25
+5″5' 8"
Height
5' 3"
+2″68″
Reach
66″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+12
0/10% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
Alliance MMA
Gym
AMC Pankration
San Diego, California
From
Kirkland, Washington
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. 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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Dominick Cruz15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 18BODY40%6 of 6LEGS13%2 of 2
Demetrious Johnson18 sig landed
HEAD56%10 of 30BODY33%6 of 6LEGS11%2 of 2
15 of 26
Sig.
strikes
18 of 38
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 3
2:17
Control
0:59
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 4Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Dominick Cruz18 sig landed
HEAD28%5 of 17BODY72%13 of 13LEGS0%0 landed
Demetrious Johnson15 sig landed
HEAD33%5 of 21BODY53%8 of 10LEGS13%2 of 3
18 of 30
Sig.
strikes
15 of 34
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 3
2:01
Control
1:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 12Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 6Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attempt
Dominick Cruz9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 14BODY44%4 of 5LEGS11%1 of 1
Demetrious Johnson11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 19BODY45%5 of 7LEGS18%2 of 3
9 of 20
Sig.
strikes
11 of 29
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:42
Control
0:34
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 5Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 45:00 of action
Dominick Cruz9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 23BODY22%2 of 4LEGS22%2 of 2
Demetrious Johnson7 sig landed
HEAD14%1 of 25BODY29%2 of 5LEGS57%4 of 7
9 of 29
Sig.
strikes
7 of 37
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:29
Control
0:01
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Dominick Cruz9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 11BODY22%2 of 2LEGS22%2 of 2
Demetrious Johnson12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 34BODY25%3 of 4LEGS8%1 of 1
9 of 15
Sig.
strikes
12 of 39
3 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:12
Control
0:21
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Kevin Mulhall
Official totals — Dominick Cruz first
JudgeTotal
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide50–45
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% wide49–46
Jeff Blatnick2.0 avg spread · 40% wide50–45

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 6 scored, Dominick Cruz first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com50–45
Matt Erickson MMAFighting.com50–45
MM AWeekly.com50–45
Tony Loiseleur Sherdog.com49–46
Freddie DeFreitas Sherdog.com49–46
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Cruz · 52%49-46 Cruz · 28%48-47 Cruz · 7%48-47 Johnson · 4%49-47 Cruz · 2%

88 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Dominick Cruz

2.82takedowns / 15 min
2.82 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.35 / 15m
6.71 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.98 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
56%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Demetrious Johnson

3.35takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Dominick Cruz↑ +4.4pp
open 77.3%close 81.6%
Demetrious Johnson↓ −4.4pp
open 22.7%close 18.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Dominick Cruz opened at 77.3% and closed at 81.6% (+4.4pp), with Demetrious Johnson 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
Dominick Cruz-425-55077.3%81.6%+4.4pp
Demetrious Johnson32042522.7%18.4%−4.4pp
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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