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History · 2014 · UFC 178: Johnson vs Cariaso · Donald Cerrone vs Eddie Alvarez
From the tape · 27 Sep 2014

Donald Cerrone vs Eddie Alvarez

UFC 178: Johnson vs Cariaso · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Donald Cerrone beat Eddie Alvarez

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightCo-MainReferee · John McCarthy

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 DonaldCerrone“Cowboy”BMF Ranch · Broomfield, Colorado
VSOn the tape
EA
Blue corner EddieAlvarezRicardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lightweight3 rounds27 Sep 2014
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Averages 1.8 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Cerrone.
  • Has finished 8 of 11 UFC wins.
36-17
Record
29-6
31
Age
−1 yr30
+4″6' 1"
Height
5' 9"
+4″73″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
BMF Ranch
Gym
Ricardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu
Broomfield, Colorado
From
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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
Donald Cerrone19 sig landed
HEAD32%6 of 31BODY42%8 of 11LEGS26%5 of 5
Eddie Alvarez23 sig landed
HEAD74%17 of 50BODY22%5 of 12LEGS4%1 of 1
19 of 47
Sig.
strikes
23 of 63
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:05
Control
0:38
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 11Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cerrone firstLester Griffin9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Donald Cerrone27 sig landed
HEAD19%5 of 30BODY41%11 of 15LEGS41%11 of 12
Eddie Alvarez16 sig landed
HEAD62%10 of 27BODY31%5 of 8LEGS6%1 of 1
27 of 57
Sig.
strikes
16 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:15
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 20Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cerrone firstLester Griffin10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD CerroneEnded 5:00
Donald Cerrone42 sig landed
HEAD55%23 of 43BODY21%9 of 9LEGS24%10 of 10
Eddie Alvarez9 sig landed
HEAD100%9 of 34BODY0%0 of 4LEGS0%0 of 1
42 of 62
Sig.
strikes
9 of 39
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:37
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 29Clinch 7Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cerrone firstLester Griffin10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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 · John McCarthy
Donald CerroneEddie Alvarez
Official totals — Donald Cerrone first
JudgeTotal
Lester Griffin2.0 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide29–28

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 — 13 scored, Donald Cerrone first · unofficial

Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–27
John Pollock Fight Network29–28
Cage Pages.com29–28
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Thomas Myers MMAMania.com29–28
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–28
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Cerrone · 74%29-27 Cerrone · 18%29-28 Alvarez · 4%29-26 Cerrone · 3%29-27 Alvarez · 1%

76 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.

Donald Cerrone

1.16takedowns / 15 min
1.16 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.92 / 15m
3.52 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.11 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
36%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Eddie Alvarez

2.92takedowns / 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.

Donald Cerrone↑ +4.3pp
open 51.9%close 56.2%
Eddie Alvarez↓ −4.3pp
open 48.1%close 43.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Donald Cerrone opened at 51.9% and closed at 56.2% (+4.3pp), with Eddie Alvarez 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
Donald Cerrone-130-13751.9%56.2%+4.3pp
Eddie Alvarez-11012248.1%43.8%−4.3pp
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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