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Events · UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2 · Daniel Cormier vs Anthony Johnson
From the tape · 8 Apr 2017

Daniel Cormier vs Anthony Johnson

UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2 · Buffalo, New York, USA
Result

Daniel Cormier beat Anthony Johnson

Method
Submission
Round
2 of 5
Clock
3:37
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.

DC
Red corner DanielCormier“DC”American Kickboxing Academy · San Jose, California
VSOn the tape
AJ
Blue corner AnthonyJohnson“Rumble”Kill Cliff FC · Boca Raton, Florida
Light Heavyweight Title5 rounds8 Apr 2017
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 3 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 11 of 13 UFC wins.
22-3
Record
22-6
38
Age
−5 yr33
5' 11"
Height
+3″6' 2"
72″
Reach
+6″78″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
8
UFC bouts
+1018
3/743% of wins
Finishes
+42%11/1385% of wins
American Kickboxing Academy
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
San Jose, California
From
Boca Raton, Florida
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Daniel Cormier12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 9BODY33%4 of 4LEGS8%1 of 1
Anthony Johnson16 sig landed
HEAD31%5 of 14BODY31%5 of 5LEGS38%6 of 6
12 of 14
Sig.
strikes
16 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:40
Control
2:15
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 12Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 7Ground 0
Round 23:37 of action1 sub attemptEnded 3:37
Daniel Cormier24 sig landed
HEAD92%22 of 25BODY0%0 landedLEGS8%2 of 2
Anthony Johnson6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 4BODY50%3 of 5LEGS33%2 of 2
24 of 27
Sig.
strikes
6 of 11
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:32
Control
0:23
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 9Ground 14
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 0

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
2
Clock
3:37
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.

Daniel Cormier

1.83takedowns / 15 min
1.83 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.43 / 15m
4.16 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.26 / 15m
44%
ACCURACY
57%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Anthony Johnson

2.43takedowns / 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.

Daniel Cormier↓ −7.0pp
open 51.0%close 44.0%
Anthony Johnson↑ +7.0pp
open 49.0%close 56.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Daniel Cormier opened at 51.0% and closed at 44.0% (−7.0pp), with Anthony Johnson 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
Daniel Cormier-12011951.0%44.0%−7.0pp
Anthony Johnson-110-13949.0%56.0%+7.0pp
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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