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Events · UFC 173: Barao vs Dillashaw · Daniel Cormier vs Dan Henderson
From the tape · 24 May 2014

Daniel Cormier vs Dan Henderson

UFC 173: Barao vs Dillashaw · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Daniel Cormier beat Dan Henderson

Method
Submission
Round
3 of 3
Clock
3:53
Light HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · Yves Lavigne

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 DanielCormier“DC”American Kickboxing Academy · San Jose, California
VSOn the tape
DH
Blue corner DanHenderson“Hendo”Team Quest · Temecula, California
Light Heavyweight3 rounds24 May 2014
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Carries 23 points more takedown defence than Henderson.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Cormier.
22-3
Record
32-15
−8 yr35
Age
43
5' 11"
Height
5' 11"
72″
Reach
+2″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
+912
+5%1/333% of wins
Finishes
2/729% of wins
American Kickboxing Academy
Gym
Team Quest
San Jose, California
From
Temecula, 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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Daniel Cormier11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 15BODY55%6 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Dan Henderson5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 7BODY60%3 of 3LEGS20%1 of 1
11 of 22
Sig.
strikes
5 of 11
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:44
Control
0:04
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 1
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Daniel Cormier25 sig landed
HEAD76%19 of 28BODY24%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Dan Henderson0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 5 thrown

25 of 34
Sig.
strikes
0 of 5
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:20
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 25
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 33:53 of action1 sub attemptEnded 3:53
Daniel Cormier14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 21BODY21%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Dan Henderson1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 1
14 of 24
Sig.
strikes
1 of 2
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:10
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Daniel Cormier

Round
3
Clock
3:53
Method
Submission

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Yves Lavigne.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Daniel Cormier

1.83takedowns / 15 min
1.83 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.52 / 15m
4.16 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.92 / 15m
44%
ACCURACY
52%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Dan Henderson

1.52takedowns / 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.

Daniel Cormier↑ +8.8pp
open 76.6%close 85.5%
Dan Henderson↓ −8.8pp
open 23.4%close 14.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Daniel Cormier opened at 76.6% and closed at 85.5% (+8.8pp), with Dan Henderson 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
Daniel Cormier-425-81976.6%85.5%+8.8pp
Dan Henderson30556023.4%14.5%−8.8pp
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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