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Events · UFC 252: Miocic vs. Cormier 3 · Stipe Miocic vs Daniel Cormier
From the tape · 15 Aug 2020

Stipe Miocic vs Daniel Cormier

UFC 252: Miocic vs. Cormier 3 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Stipe Miocic beat Daniel Cormier

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
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 rounds15 Aug 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 9 of 13 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 7 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Carries 15 points more takedown defence than Miocic.
20-5
Record
22-3
−4 yr37
Age
41
+5″6' 4"
Height
5' 11"
+8″80″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+216
UFC bouts
14
+6%9/1369% of wins
Finishes
7/1164% 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 — 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
Stipe Miocic20 sig landed
HEAD35%7 of 19BODY35%7 of 8LEGS30%6 of 6
Daniel Cormier14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 14BODY14%2 of 5LEGS36%5 of 6
20 of 33
Sig.
strikes
14 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:38
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Miocic firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Miocic
Stipe Miocic24 sig landed
HEAD54%13 of 28BODY29%7 of 7LEGS17%4 of 4
Daniel Cormier26 sig landed
HEAD54%14 of 36BODY15%4 of 9LEGS31%8 of 8
24 of 39
Sig.
strikes
26 of 53
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:09
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Miocic firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Stipe Miocic28 sig landed
HEAD64%18 of 38BODY29%8 of 8LEGS7%2 of 2
Daniel Cormier16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 27BODY0%0 of 2LEGS19%3 of 3
28 of 48
Sig.
strikes
16 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:53
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 22Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Miocic firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Stipe Miocic16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 26BODY12%2 of 4LEGS12%2 of 2
Daniel Cormier30 sig landed
HEAD70%21 of 31BODY7%2 of 3LEGS23%7 of 9
16 of 32
Sig.
strikes
30 of 43
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:23
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Miocic firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Stipe Miocic27 sig landed
HEAD63%17 of 25BODY26%7 of 7LEGS11%3 of 3
Daniel Cormier19 sig landed
HEAD79%15 of 24BODY16%3 of 5LEGS5%1 of 1
27 of 35
Sig.
strikes
19 of 30
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:27
Control
0:15
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 19Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Miocic firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Stipe MiocicDaniel Cormier
Official totals — Stipe Miocic first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide49–46
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide49–46
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide48–47

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 — 26 scored, Stipe Miocic first · unofficial

MM AMania.com50–45
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com49–46
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl49–46
Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com49–47
Phil Murphy ESPN48–47
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com48–47
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com48–47
MM AJunkie.com48–47
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges48–47
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press48–47
Matthew Wells FanSided.com48–47
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com48–47
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com48–47
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com48–47
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com48–47
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com48–47
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com48–47
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com48–47
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com48–47
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com48–47
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport48–47
John Pollock POST Wrestling48–47
MM ABrasil.com.br48–47
Sheehan SevereMMA.com47–48
Nick Baldwin theScore47–48
Kevin Iole Yahoo.com47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Miocic · 40%49-46 Miocic · 35%48-47 Cormier · 10%50-45 Miocic · 6%49-45 Miocic · 2%

926 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.

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↓ −0.6pp
open 50.0%close 49.4%
Daniel Cormier↑ +0.6pp
open 50.0%close 50.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Stipe Miocic opened at 50.0% and closed at 49.4% (−0.6pp), 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-110-10750.0%49.4%−0.6pp
Daniel Cormier-110-11350.0%50.6%+0.6pp
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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