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Events · UFC Fight Night: Dillashaw vs Cruz · TJ Dillashaw vs Dominick Cruz
From the tape · 17 Jan 2016

TJ Dillashaw vs Dominick Cruz

UFC Fight Night: Dillashaw vs Cruz · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Result

Dominick Cruz beat TJ Dillashaw

Method
Decision - Split
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Bantamweight 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.

TD
Red corner TJDillashaw
VSOn the tape
DC
Blue corner DominickCruz“The Dominator”Alliance MMA · San Diego, California
Bantamweight Title5 rounds17 Jan 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Averages 1.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Dillashaw.
18-5
Record
24-4
−1 yr29
Age
30
5' 6"
Height
+2″5' 8"
67″
Reach
+1″68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+710
UFC bouts
3
+42%6/875% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
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
TJ Dillashaw19 sig landed
HEAD47%9 of 73BODY37%7 of 11LEGS16%3 of 3
Dominick Cruz21 sig landed
HEAD81%17 of 56BODY10%2 of 4LEGS10%2 of 2
19 of 87
Sig.
strikes
21 of 62
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 5
0:12
Control
0:07
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dillashaw firstSal D'Amato10–9David Ginsberg9–10Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
TJ Dillashaw16 sig landed
HEAD69%11 of 73BODY6%1 of 1LEGS25%4 of 5
Dominick Cruz17 sig landed
HEAD82%14 of 49BODY12%2 of 2LEGS6%1 of 1
16 of 79
Sig.
strikes
17 of 52
0 of 2
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
0:10
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dillashaw firstSal D'Amato9–10David Ginsberg9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of action
TJ Dillashaw19 sig landed
HEAD47%9 of 65BODY26%5 of 7LEGS26%5 of 5
Dominick Cruz19 sig landed
HEAD89%17 of 52BODY11%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 77
Sig.
strikes
19 of 54
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:03
Control
0:13
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dillashaw firstSal D'Amato10–9David Ginsberg9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 45:00 of action
TJ Dillashaw22 sig landed
HEAD68%15 of 58BODY9%2 of 7LEGS23%5 of 5
Dominick Cruz25 sig landed
HEAD84%21 of 52BODY4%1 of 3LEGS12%3 of 3
22 of 70
Sig.
strikes
25 of 58
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:56
Control
0:03
Distance 17Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dillashaw firstSal D'Amato10–9David Ginsberg10–9Tony Weeks9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
TJ Dillashaw33 sig landed
HEAD61%20 of 74BODY21%7 of 13LEGS18%6 of 8
Dominick Cruz30 sig landed
HEAD93%28 of 73BODY7%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
33 of 95
Sig.
strikes
30 of 76
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 32Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dillashaw firstSal D'Amato10–9David Ginsberg10–9Tony Weeks9–10

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
TJ DillashawDominick Cruz
Official totals — TJ Dillashaw first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide49–46
David Ginsberg47–48
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% 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 — 23 scored, TJ Dillashaw first · unofficial

Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com46–49
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com47–48
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com47–48
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com47–48
MM ABrasil.com.br47–48
Severe MMA.com47–48
Wrestling Observer47–48
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com47–48
MM AMania.com47–48
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com47–48
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com47–48
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com47–48
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com48–48
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com48–47
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com48–47
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com48–47
MM AJunkie.com48–47
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com48–47
Patrick Wyman BleacherReport.com48–47
John Pollock Fight Network48–47
Trent Dozier LastWordOnSports.com48–47
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com49–47
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Cruz · 50%48-47 Dillashaw · 22%49-46 Cruz · 11%49-46 Dillashaw · 6%49-47 Cruz · 3%

2,020 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.

TJ Dillashaw

1.56takedowns / 15 min
1.56 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.82 / 15m
5.20 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.71 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
42%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Dominick Cruz

2.82takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

TJ Dillashawclose only
no opening line on recordclose 58.5%
Dominick Cruzclose only
no opening line on recordclose 41.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: TJ Dillashaw 58.5%, Dominick Cruz 41.5%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
TJ Dillashaw-15358.5%
Dominick Cruz12013341.5%
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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for T.J. Dillashaw, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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