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Events · UFC 181: Hendricks vs Lawler II · Johny Hendricks vs Robbie Lawler
From the tape · 6 Dec 2014

Johny Hendricks vs Robbie Lawler

UFC 181: Hendricks vs Lawler II · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Robbie Lawler beat Johny Hendricks

Method
Decision - Split
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Welterweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · 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.

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 rounds6 Dec 2014
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 3.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Lawler.
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
18-8
Record
30-16
−1 yr31
Age
32
5' 9"
Height
+2″5' 11"
69″
Reach
+5″74″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
13
UFC bouts
13
5/1145% of wins
Finishes
+10%5/956% 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 Hendricks14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 22BODY7%1 of 2LEGS36%5 of 5
Robbie Lawler34 sig landed
HEAD38%13 of 31BODY62%21 of 21LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 29
Sig.
strikes
34 of 52
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:16
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 27Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hendricks firstSal D'Amato9–10Marcos Rosales9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Johny Hendricks35 sig landed
HEAD40%14 of 40BODY9%3 of 5LEGS51%18 of 18
Robbie Lawler13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 25BODY15%2 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
35 of 63
Sig.
strikes
13 of 29
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:57
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 26Clinch 8Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Hendricks firstSal D'Amato10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Johny Hendricks26 sig landed
HEAD69%18 of 47BODY0%0 landedLEGS31%8 of 10
Robbie Lawler8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 9BODY38%3 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
26 of 57
Sig.
strikes
8 of 17
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:30
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hendricks firstSal D'Amato10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Johny Hendricks23 sig landed
HEAD65%15 of 40BODY4%1 of 2LEGS30%7 of 7
Robbie Lawler19 sig landed
HEAD89%17 of 38BODY11%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
23 of 49
Sig.
strikes
19 of 40
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:43
Control
0:17
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 5
Judges · this round · Hendricks firstSal D'Amato10–9Marcos Rosales9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Johny Hendricks13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 27BODY8%1 of 1LEGS8%1 of 2
Robbie Lawler42 sig landed
HEAD60%25 of 45BODY40%17 of 18LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 30
Sig.
strikes
42 of 63
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:55
Control
0:45
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 6Ground 19
Judges · this round · Hendricks firstSal D'Amato9–10Marcos Rosales9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Johny HendricksRobbie Lawler
Official totals — Johny Hendricks first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide48–47
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide47–48
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide46–49

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

MM ABrasil.com.br47–48
C. J. Tuttle Sherdog.com47–48
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com47–48
Fight Metric.com48–48
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com48–47
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com48–47
Severe MMA.com48–47
Cage Pages.com48–47
T. P. Grant BloodyElbow.com48–47
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com48–47
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com48–47
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com48–47
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com48–47
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com48–47
MM AJunkie.com48–47
John Pollock Fight Network48–46

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Lawler · 38%48-47 Hendricks · 38%49-46 Hendricks · 10%49-47 Hendricks · 2%

966 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↓ −0.7pp
open 67.8%close 67.0%
Robbie Lawler↑ +0.7pp
open 32.2%close 33.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Johny Hendricks opened at 67.8% and closed at 67.0% (−0.7pp), 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-235-22267.8%67.0%−0.7pp
Robbie Lawler20019532.2%33.0%+0.7pp
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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