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Events · UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey · Dominick Cruz vs Cody Garbrandt
From the tape · 30 Dec 2016

Dominick Cruz vs Cody Garbrandt

UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Cody Garbrandt beat Dominick Cruz

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

DC
Red corner DominickCruz“The Dominator”Alliance MMA · San Diego, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner CodyGarbrandt“No Love”Team Alpha Male · Uhrichsville, Ohio
Bantamweight Title5 rounds30 Dec 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Averages 2.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Garbrandt.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
24-4
Record
15-8
31
Age
−6 yr25
5' 8"
Height
5' 8"
+3″68″
Reach
65″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
5
UFC bouts
5
1/520% of wins
Finishes
+60%4/580% of wins
Alliance MMA
Gym
Team Alpha Male
San Diego, California
From
Uhrichsville, Ohio
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 Cruz20 sig landed
HEAD45%9 of 37BODY20%4 of 4LEGS35%7 of 9
Cody Garbrandt12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 30BODY25%3 of 4LEGS33%4 of 4
20 of 50
Sig.
strikes
12 of 38
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:09
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cruz firstDerek Cleary9–10Jeff Mullen10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Dominick Cruz19 sig landed
HEAD58%11 of 47BODY11%2 of 6LEGS32%6 of 7
Cody Garbrandt16 sig landed
HEAD56%9 of 33BODY38%6 of 10LEGS6%1 of 2
19 of 60
Sig.
strikes
16 of 45
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cruz firstDerek Cleary10–9Jeff Mullen9–10Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Dominick Cruz20 sig landed
HEAD80%16 of 65BODY5%1 of 1LEGS15%3 of 4
Cody Garbrandt17 sig landed
HEAD94%16 of 43BODY6%1 of 1LEGS0%0 of 2
20 of 70
Sig.
strikes
17 of 46
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:01
Control
0:01
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cruz firstDerek Cleary9–10Jeff Mullen9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 45:00 of action⚡ 2 KD Garbrandt
Dominick Cruz17 sig landed
HEAD88%15 of 50BODY6%1 of 1LEGS6%1 of 3
Cody Garbrandt15 sig landed
HEAD73%11 of 41BODY0%0 of 1LEGS27%4 of 5
17 of 54
Sig.
strikes
15 of 47
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:06
0
Knock-
downs
2
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cruz firstDerek Cleary8–10Jeff Mullen8–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Dominick Cruz12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 51BODY8%1 of 2LEGS33%4 of 4
Cody Garbrandt8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 17BODY12%1 of 1LEGS12%1 of 1
12 of 57
Sig.
strikes
8 of 19
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
0:24
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cruz firstDerek Cleary10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Tony 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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · John McCarthy
Dominick CruzCody Garbrandt
Official totals — Dominick Cruz first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide46–48
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide46–48
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide47–48

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 — 22 scored, Dominick Cruz first · unofficial

John Pollock Fight Network45–49
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com45–49
Youngs FanSided.com45–49
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com45–49
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com46–49
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com46–48
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com46–48
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com46–48
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com46–48
MM AJunkie.com46–48
Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br46–48
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com46–48
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com46–48
Steve Duncan mma.uno46–48
Sean Ross Sapp Fightful.com46–48
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com46–48
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com46–48
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com47–48
Severe MMA.com47–48
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com47–48
Sheehan SevereMMA.com47–48
MM AMania.com47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

48-46 Garbrandt · 32%49-45 Garbrandt · 22%48-47 Garbrandt · 7%50-44 Garbrandt · 6%

1,291 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
0.85 / 15m
6.71 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.86 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
22%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Cody Garbrandt

0.85takedowns / 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↑ +4.9pp
open 63.2%close 68.1%
Cody Garbrandt↓ −4.9pp
open 36.8%close 31.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Dominick Cruz opened at 63.2% and closed at 68.1% (+4.9pp), with Cody Garbrandt 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-195-24063.2%68.1%+4.9pp
Cody Garbrandt16020236.8%31.9%−4.9pp
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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