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History · 2015 · UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier · Anthony Johnson vs Daniel Cormier
From the tape · 23 May 2015

Anthony Johnson vs Daniel Cormier

UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Daniel Cormier beat Anthony Johnson

Method
Submission
Round
3 of 5
Clock
2:39
Light Heavyweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · 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.

AJ
Red corner AnthonyJohnson“Rumble”Kill Cliff FC · Boca Raton, Florida
VSOn the tape
DC
Blue corner DanielCormier“DC”American Kickboxing Academy · San Jose, California
Light Heavyweight Title5 rounds23 May 2015
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 8 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Lands 1.0 more significant strikes a minute than Johnson.
22-6
Record
22-3
−5 yr31
Age
36
+3″6' 2"
Height
5' 11"
+6″78″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+914
UFC bouts
5
+30%8/1080% of wins
Finishes
2/450% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
American Kickboxing Academy
Boca Raton, Florida
From
San Jose, 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⚡ 1 KD Johnson
Anthony Johnson11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 24BODY9%1 of 1LEGS9%1 of 1
Daniel Cormier5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 11BODY20%1 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
11 of 26
Sig.
strikes
5 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 5
0:01
Control
3:02
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 3Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Anthony Johnson8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 10BODY25%2 of 2LEGS12%1 of 1
Daniel Cormier14 sig landed
HEAD93%13 of 21BODY7%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 13
Sig.
strikes
14 of 22
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
4:32
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 12
Round 32:39 of action1 sub attemptEnded 2:39
Anthony Johnson4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 11BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Daniel Cormier4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS25%1 of 1
4 of 11
Sig.
strikes
4 of 6
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:41
Control
1:41
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 3

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
2:39
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: John McCarthy.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Anthony Johnson

2.43takedowns / 15 min
2.43 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.83 / 15m
4.26 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.16 / 15m
57%
ACCURACY
44%
0.60 / 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 (5.32 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.

Anthony Johnson↑ +7.1pp
open 45.7%close 52.8%
Daniel Cormier↓ −7.1pp
open 54.3%close 47.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Anthony Johnson opened at 45.7% and closed at 52.8% (+7.1pp), 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
Anthony Johnson110-12345.7%52.8%+7.1pp
Daniel Cormier-13010354.3%47.2%−7.1pp
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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