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History · 2016 · UFC 199: Rockhold vs. Bisping 2 · Dominick Cruz vs Urijah Faber
From the tape · 4 Jun 2016

Dominick Cruz vs Urijah Faber

UFC 199: Rockhold vs. Bisping 2 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Result

Dominick Cruz beat Urijah Faber

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Bantamweight TitleTitle fightCo-MainReferee · 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.

DC
Red corner DominickCruz“The Dominator”Alliance MMA · San Diego, California
VSOn the tape
UF
Blue corner UrijahFaber“The California Kid”Team Alpha Male · Sacramento, California
Bantamweight Title5 rounds4 Jun 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Carries 25 points more takedown defence than Faber.
  • 13 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Cruz.
24-4
Record
35-11
−6 yr31
Age
37
+2″5' 8"
Height
5' 6"
+1″68″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+913
1/425% of wins
Finishes
+42%6/967% of wins
Alliance MMA
Gym
Team Alpha Male
San Diego, California
From
Sacramento, 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
Dominick Cruz10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 19BODY20%2 of 2LEGS30%3 of 3
Urijah Faber4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
10 of 24
Sig.
strikes
4 of 13
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:53
Control
0:10
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cruz firstRon McCarthy10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Wade Vierra9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Cruz
Dominick Cruz21 sig landed
HEAD62%13 of 47BODY10%2 of 4LEGS29%6 of 7
Urijah Faber6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 26BODY0%0 of 2LEGS17%1 of 1
21 of 58
Sig.
strikes
6 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:08
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Cruz firstRon McCarthy10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Wade Vierra10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Dominick Cruz21 sig landed
HEAD76%16 of 55BODY5%1 of 5LEGS19%4 of 5
Urijah Faber10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 34BODY40%4 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
21 of 65
Sig.
strikes
10 of 40
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cruz firstRon McCarthy10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Wade Vierra10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Dominick Cruz18 sig landed
HEAD78%14 of 51BODY11%2 of 4LEGS11%2 of 2
Urijah Faber7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 40BODY14%1 of 3LEGS14%1 of 1
18 of 57
Sig.
strikes
7 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:04
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cruz firstRon McCarthy10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Wade Vierra10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Dominick Cruz17 sig landed
HEAD82%14 of 51BODY6%1 of 4LEGS12%2 of 2
Urijah Faber7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 29BODY14%1 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
17 of 57
Sig.
strikes
7 of 33
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:19
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Cruz firstRon McCarthy10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Wade Vierra10–9

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
Dominick CruzUrijah Faber
Official totals — Dominick Cruz first
JudgeTotal
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide50–45
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide50–45
Wade Vierra1.8 avg spread · 33% 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 — 23 scored, Dominick Cruz first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com50–45
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer50–45
MM AMania.com50–45
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com50–45
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com50–45
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com50–45
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com50–45
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com50–45
MM AJunkie.com50–45
Fernando Justino bjjforum.com.br50–45
Rob Young CombatPress.com50–45
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com50–45
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com50–45
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com50–45
Youngs TheMMACorner.com50–45
Severe MMA.com50–45
Sheehan SevereMMA.com50–45
John Pollock Fight Network50–45
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com50–45
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com50–45
Dana Becker FightLine.com50–45
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com49–46
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Cruz · 64%49-46 Cruz · 17%50-44 Cruz · 7%50-46 Cruz · 3%49-45 Cruz · 2%

166 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.

Dominick Cruz

2.82takedowns / 15 min
2.82 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.54 / 15m
6.71 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.13 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
30%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Urijah Faber

1.54takedowns / 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.

Dominick Cruz↓ −4.0pp
open 81.1%close 77.1%
Urijah Faber↑ +4.0pp
open 18.9%close 22.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Dominick Cruz opened at 81.1% and closed at 77.1% (−4.0pp), with Urijah Faber 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
Dominick Cruz-600-39081.1%77.1%−4.0pp
Urijah Faber40032218.9%22.9%+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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