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Events · UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Melendez · Frank Mir vs Daniel Cormier
From the tape · 20 Apr 2013

Frank Mir vs Daniel Cormier

UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Melendez · San Jose, California, USA
Result

Daniel Cormier beat Frank Mir

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · Herb Dean

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.

FM
Red corner FrankMirFrank Mir Gym · Las Vegas, Nevada
VSOn the tape
DC
Blue corner DanielCormier“DC”American Kickboxing Academy · San Jose, California
Heavyweight3 rounds20 Apr 2013
The story going in
  • Has finished 11 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Carries 26 points more takedown defence than Mir.
18-11
Record
22-3
−1 yr33
Age
34
+4″6' 3"
Height
5' 11"
+7″79″
Reach
72″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Frank Mir Gym
Gym
American Kickboxing Academy
Las Vegas, Nevada
From
San Jose, California
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 — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Frank Mir7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 15BODY57%4 of 6LEGS14%1 of 1
Daniel Cormier24 sig landed
HEAD38%9 of 22BODY46%11 of 13LEGS17%4 of 4
7 of 22
Sig.
strikes
24 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
2:27
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 19Ground 0
Judges · this round · Mir firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Steven Davis9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Frank Mir6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 15BODY33%2 of 2LEGS33%2 of 2
Daniel Cormier17 sig landed
HEAD47%8 of 16BODY29%5 of 7LEGS24%4 of 4
6 of 19
Sig.
strikes
17 of 27
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
2:31
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 15Ground 0
Judges · this round · Mir firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Steven Davis9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Frank Mir11 sig landed
HEAD9%1 of 8BODY73%8 of 9LEGS18%2 of 2
Daniel Cormier18 sig landed
HEAD56%10 of 19BODY39%7 of 10LEGS6%1 of 1
11 of 19
Sig.
strikes
18 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:16
Control
2:36
Distance 7Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 15Ground 0
Judges · this round · Mir firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Steven Davis9–10

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.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Frank MirDaniel Cormier
Official totals — Frank Mir first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell27–30
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–30
Steven Davis27–30

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 11 scored, Frank Mir first · unofficial

Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com27–30
Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca27–30
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com27–30
MM AWeekly.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com27–30
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com27–30
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com27–30
Brent Brookhouse BloodyElbow.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Cormier · 74%30-26 Cormier · 8%30-26 Mir · 5%29-28 Cormier · 5%

39 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.

Frank Mir

2.02takedowns / 15 min
2.02 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.83 / 15m
5.05 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.16 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
44%
2.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Daniel Cormier

1.83takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Frank Mir↓ −3.9pp
open 26.9%close 23.0%
Daniel Cormier↑ +3.9pp
open 73.1%close 77.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Frank Mir opened at 26.9% and closed at 23.0% (−3.9pp), with Daniel Cormier 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
Frank Mir25032526.9%23.0%−3.9pp
Daniel Cormier-350-37573.1%77.0%+3.9pp
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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