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History · 2015 · UFC 182: Jones vs Cormier · Jon Jones vs Daniel Cormier
From the tape · 3 Jan 2015

Jon Jones vs Daniel Cormier

UFC 182: Jones vs Cormier · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Jon Jones beat Daniel Cormier

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Light Heavyweight 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.

Red corner JonJones“Bones”
VSOn the tape
DC
Blue corner DanielCormier“DC”American Kickboxing Academy · San Jose, California
Light Heavyweight Title5 rounds3 Jan 2015
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 11-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 9 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
28-1
Record
22-3
−8 yr27
Age
35
+5″6' 4"
Height
5' 11"
+12″84″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1115
UFC bouts
4
+14%9/1464% of wins
Finishes
2/450% of wins
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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
Jon Jones25 sig landed
HEAD52%13 of 39BODY36%9 of 10LEGS12%3 of 6
Daniel Cormier18 sig landed
HEAD83%15 of 44BODY6%1 of 2LEGS11%2 of 2
25 of 55
Sig.
strikes
18 of 48
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:28
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstMarcos Rosales10–9Cardo Urso10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jon Jones16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 24BODY38%6 of 7LEGS19%3 of 5
Daniel Cormier18 sig landed
HEAD50%9 of 34BODY39%7 of 9LEGS11%2 of 3
16 of 36
Sig.
strikes
18 of 46
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:01
Control
0:02
Distance 9Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstMarcos Rosales9–10Cardo Urso10–9Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Jon Jones24 sig landed
HEAD38%9 of 24BODY33%8 of 10LEGS29%7 of 9
Daniel Cormier15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 37BODY13%2 of 4LEGS7%1 of 6
24 of 43
Sig.
strikes
15 of 47
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:32
Control
0:22
Distance 16Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 6Ground 1
Judges · this round · Jones firstMarcos Rosales10–9Cardo Urso9–10Tony Weeks10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Jon Jones16 sig landed
HEAD56%9 of 15BODY38%6 of 8LEGS6%1 of 4
Daniel Cormier3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 8BODY0%0 of 3LEGS67%2 of 5
16 of 27
Sig.
strikes
3 of 16
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:35
Control
0:20
Distance 5Clinch 10Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstMarcos Rosales10–9Cardo Urso10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jon Jones11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 9BODY45%5 of 6LEGS9%1 of 2
Daniel Cormier4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 7BODY25%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 17
Sig.
strikes
4 of 8
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
2:16
Control
0:52
Distance 2Clinch 9Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstMarcos Rosales10–9Cardo Urso10–9Tony 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 · Herb Dean
Jon JonesDaniel Cormier
Official totals — Jon Jones first
JudgeTotal
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide49–46
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% wide49–46
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide49–46

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 — 18 scored, Jon Jones first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com49–46
MM AMania.com49–46
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com49–46
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com49–46
MM AJunkie.com49–46
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com49–46
Sean Smith BleacherReport.com49–46
Cage Pages.com49–46
Severe MMA.com49–46
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com49–46
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com49–46
T. P. Grant BloodyElbow.com49–47
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com49–47
MM ABrasil.com.br48–47
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com48–47
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com48–47
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com48–47
Wrestling Observer48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Jones · 40%48-47 Jones · 32%48-47 Cormier · 8%50-45 Jones · 6%49-47 Jones · 4%

907 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.

Jon Jones

1.89takedowns / 15 min
1.89 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.83 / 15m
4.20 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.16 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
44%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Daniel Cormier

1.83takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Jon Jones↑ +4.0pp
open 60.7%close 64.7%
Daniel Cormier↓ −4.0pp
open 39.3%close 35.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jon Jones opened at 60.7% and closed at 64.7% (+4.0pp), with Daniel Cormier 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
Jon Jones-170-19860.7%64.7%+4.0pp
Daniel Cormier14517639.3%35.3%−4.0pp
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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