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History · 2018 · UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier · Stipe Miocic vs Daniel Cormier
From the tape · 7 Jul 2018

Stipe Miocic vs Daniel Cormier

UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Daniel Cormier beat Stipe Miocic

Method
KO/TKO
Round
1 of 5
Clock
4:33
Heavyweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

SM
Red corner StipeMiocicStrong Style Fight Team · Independence, Ohio
VSOn the tape
DC
Blue corner DanielCormier“DC”American Kickboxing Academy · San Jose, California
Heavyweight Title5 rounds7 Jul 2018
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 8 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Carries 15 points more takedown defence than Miocic.
20-5
Record
22-3
−4 yr35
Age
39
+5″6' 4"
Height
5' 11"
+8″80″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+314
UFC bouts
11
+11%8/1267% of wins
Finishes
5/956% of wins
Strong Style Fight Team
Gym
American Kickboxing Academy
Independence, Ohio
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

1 round of tape

Round 14:33 of action⚡ 1 KD CormierEnded 4:33
Stipe Miocic24 sig landed
HEAD62%15 of 41BODY25%6 of 7LEGS12%3 of 3
Daniel Cormier25 sig landed
HEAD80%20 of 30BODY4%1 of 1LEGS16%4 of 6
24 of 51
Sig.
strikes
25 of 37
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:21
Control
0:06
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 19Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 4

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
1
Clock
4:33
Method
KO/TKO

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: Marc Goddard.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Stipe Miocic

1.74takedowns / 15 min
1.74 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.83 / 15m
5.12 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.16 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
44%
0.00 / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Stipe Miocic↓ −1.2pp
open 60.2%close 59.0%
Daniel Cormier↑ +1.2pp
open 39.8%close 41.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Stipe Miocic opened at 60.2% and closed at 59.0% (−1.2pp), 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
Stipe Miocic-170-15660.2%59.0%−1.2pp
Daniel Cormier14013639.8%41.0%+1.2pp
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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