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History · 2014 · UFC 171: Hendricks vs Lawler · Johny Hendricks vs Robbie Lawler
From the tape · 15 Mar 2014

Johny Hendricks vs Robbie Lawler

UFC 171: Hendricks vs Lawler · Dallas, Texas, USA
Result

Johny Hendricks beat Robbie Lawler

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Welterweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

JH
Red corner JohnyHendricks“Bigg Rigg”Team Takedown · Ada, Oklahoma
VSOn the tape
RL
Blue corner RobbieLawler“Ruthless”Kill Cliff FC · San Diego, California
Welterweight Title5 rounds15 Mar 2014
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Averages 3.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Lawler.
  • Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
18-8
Record
30-16
−1 yr30
Age
31
5' 9"
Height
+2″5' 11"
69″
Reach
+5″74″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+212
UFC bouts
10
5/1050% of wins
Finishes
+7%4/757% of wins
Team Takedown
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Ada, Oklahoma
From
San Diego, 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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Johny Hendricks15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 34BODY0%0 landedLEGS40%6 of 8
Robbie Lawler13 sig landed
HEAD100%13 of 33BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
15 of 42
Sig.
strikes
13 of 33
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:42
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hendricks firstDouglas Crosby10–9Mike Gonzalez10–9Aladin Martinez10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Johny Hendricks42 sig landed
HEAD83%35 of 99BODY2%1 of 3LEGS14%6 of 7
Robbie Lawler21 sig landed
HEAD100%21 of 58BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
42 of 109
Sig.
strikes
21 of 59
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 37Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hendricks firstDouglas Crosby10–8Mike Gonzalez10–9Aladin Martinez10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Johny Hendricks33 sig landed
HEAD67%22 of 79BODY6%2 of 2LEGS27%9 of 9
Robbie Lawler43 sig landed
HEAD91%39 of 84BODY2%1 of 1LEGS7%3 of 4
33 of 90
Sig.
strikes
43 of 89
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:06
Control
0:00
Distance 30Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 42Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hendricks firstDouglas Crosby9–10Mike Gonzalez9–10Aladin Martinez9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Johny Hendricks34 sig landed
HEAD68%23 of 80BODY3%1 of 2LEGS29%10 of 11
Robbie Lawler56 sig landed
HEAD91%51 of 99BODY7%4 of 4LEGS2%1 of 1
34 of 93
Sig.
strikes
56 of 104
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:14
Control
0:00
Distance 34Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 54Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hendricks firstDouglas Crosby9–10Mike Gonzalez9–10Aladin Martinez9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Johny Hendricks34 sig landed
HEAD65%22 of 51BODY6%2 of 2LEGS29%10 of 10
Robbie Lawler17 sig landed
HEAD100%17 of 46BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
34 of 63
Sig.
strikes
17 of 46
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:07
Control
0:00
Distance 27Clinch 5Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hendricks firstDouglas Crosby10–10Mike Gonzalez10–9Aladin Martinez10–9

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Johny HendricksRobbie Lawler
Official totals — Johny Hendricks first
JudgeTotal
Douglas Crosby48–47
Mike Gonzalez48–47
Aladin Martinez48–47

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 — 16 scored, Johny Hendricks first · unofficial

Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com48–47
John Pollock Fight Network48–47
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com48–47
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com48–47
Severe MMA.com48–47
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com48–47
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com48–47
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com48–47
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com48–47
MM AJunkie.com48–47
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com48–47
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com48–47
MM AWeekly.com48–47
Jesse Holland MMAMania.com48–47
MM ABrasil.com.br48–47
Chase Raymond BJPenn.com47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Hendricks · 71%48-47 Lawler · 16%48-46 Lawler · 1%

465 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.

Johny Hendricks

3.83takedowns / 15 min
3.83 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.65 / 15m
8.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.02 / 15m
46%
ACCURACY
64%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Robbie Lawler

0.65takedowns / 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.

Johny Hendricks↑ +8.9pp
open 68.4%close 77.3%
Robbie Lawler↓ −8.9pp
open 31.6%close 22.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Johny Hendricks opened at 68.4% and closed at 77.3% (+8.9pp), with Robbie Lawler 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
Johny Hendricks-260-38268.4%77.3%+8.9pp
Robbie Lawler20032931.6%22.7%−8.9pp
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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