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History · 2014 · Daron Cruickshank vs Anthony Njokuani
From the tape · 4 Oct 2014

Daron Cruickshank vs Anthony Njokuani

Result

Daron Cruickshank beat Anthony Njokuani

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · 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.

DC
Red corner DaronCruickshank“Detroit Superstar”Michigan Top Team · Wayne, Michigan
VSOn the tape
AN
Blue corner AnthonyNjokuani“The Assassin”Garland, Texas
Lightweight3 rounds4 Oct 2014
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Lands 1.1 more significant strikes a minute than Cruickshank.
  • Averages 1.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Njokuani.
18-10
Record
16-12
−5 yr29
Age
34
5' 8"
Height
+5″6' 1"
72″
Reach
+3″75″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
+18
UFC bouts
7
+27%3/560% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Wayne, Michigan
From
Garland, Texas
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
Daron Cruickshank11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 19BODY18%2 of 5LEGS45%5 of 6
Anthony Njokuani9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 14BODY33%3 of 5LEGS44%4 of 6
11 of 30
Sig.
strikes
9 of 25
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:18
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cruickshank firstIan Bridgeman10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Don Robinson10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Daron Cruickshank15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 30BODY7%1 of 4LEGS7%1 of 2
Anthony Njokuani15 sig landed
HEAD27%4 of 20BODY20%3 of 4LEGS53%8 of 8
15 of 36
Sig.
strikes
15 of 32
3 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:48
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cruickshank firstIan Bridgeman10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Don Robinson10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Daron Cruickshank16 sig landed
HEAD69%11 of 30BODY19%3 of 5LEGS12%2 of 2
Anthony Njokuani16 sig landed
HEAD25%4 of 15BODY25%4 of 9LEGS50%8 of 10
16 of 37
Sig.
strikes
16 of 34
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:49
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cruickshank firstIan Bridgeman10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Don Robinson10–9

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
Daron CruickshankAnthony Njokuani
Official totals — Daron Cruickshank first
JudgeTotal
Ian Bridgeman30–27
Douglas Crosby30–27
Don Robinson30–27

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, Daron Cruickshank first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Cage Pages.com30–27
Sean Smith BleacherReport.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–27
C. J. Tuttle Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com30–27
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com30–27
Brent Brookhouse SBNation.com30–27
Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Cruickshank · 75%29-28 Cruickshank · 17%30-28 Cruickshank · 8%

12 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.

Daron Cruickshank

2.04takedowns / 15 min
2.04 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.50 / 15m
4.98 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.11 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
45%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Anthony Njokuani

0.50takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Daron Cruickshank↑ +1.8pp
open 50.9%close 52.8%
Anthony Njokuani↓ −1.8pp
open 49.1%close 47.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Daron Cruickshank opened at 50.9% and closed at 52.8% (+1.8pp), with Anthony Njokuani 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
Daron Cruickshank-125-12050.9%52.8%+1.8pp
Anthony Njokuani-11510549.1%47.2%−1.8pp
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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