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Events · UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Dillashaw · Cory Sandhagen vs TJ Dillashaw
From the tape · 24 Jul 2021

Cory Sandhagen vs TJ Dillashaw

UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Dillashaw · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

TJ Dillashaw beat Cory Sandhagen

Method
Decision - Split
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMainReferee · 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.

Red corner CorySandhagenElevation Fight Team · Aurora, Colorado
VSOn the tape
TD
Blue corner TJDillashaw
Bantamweight5 rounds24 Jul 2021
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 8 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
  • 16 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Sandhagen.
18-7
Record
18-5
−6 yr29
Age
35
+5″5' 11"
Height
5' 6"
+3″70″
Reach
67″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
8
UFC bouts
+816
+5%5/771% of wins
Finishes
8/1267% of wins
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 action1 sub attempt
Cory Sandhagen15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 16BODY7%1 of 3LEGS33%5 of 6
TJ Dillashaw13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 20BODY8%1 of 2LEGS23%3 of 4
15 of 25
Sig.
strikes
13 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
0:00
Control
2:24
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 4
Judges · this round · Sandhagen firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Cory Sandhagen26 sig landed
HEAD85%22 of 51BODY8%2 of 2LEGS8%2 of 2
TJ Dillashaw12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 34BODY17%2 of 3LEGS33%4 of 4
26 of 55
Sig.
strikes
12 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
1:18
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sandhagen firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Cory Sandhagen23 sig landed
HEAD87%20 of 50BODY9%2 of 2LEGS4%1 of 1
TJ Dillashaw26 sig landed
HEAD46%12 of 36BODY8%2 of 3LEGS46%12 of 13
23 of 53
Sig.
strikes
26 of 52
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
2:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sandhagen firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Cory Sandhagen26 sig landed
HEAD96%25 of 63BODY4%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
TJ Dillashaw19 sig landed
HEAD37%7 of 46BODY0%0 landedLEGS63%12 of 15
26 of 65
Sig.
strikes
19 of 61
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 5
0:00
Control
1:41
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sandhagen firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Cory Sandhagen38 sig landed
HEAD89%34 of 78BODY11%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
TJ Dillashaw40 sig landed
HEAD62%25 of 72BODY12%5 of 6LEGS25%10 of 10
38 of 83
Sig.
strikes
40 of 88
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
0:59
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 37Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 38Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sandhagen firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro 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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Cory SandhagenTJ Dillashaw
Official totals — Cory Sandhagen first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide48–47
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide47–48
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% 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 — 23 scored, Cory Sandhagen first · unofficial

Keith Shillan Sherdog.com47–48
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com47–48
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com47–48
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com47–48
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com47–48
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com47–48
MM AMania.com48–47
Lev Pisarsky Sherdog.com48–47
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com48–47
Steven Marrocco MMAFighting.com48–47
MM AJunkie.com48–47
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com48–47
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com48–47
Sheehan SevereMMA.com48–47
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com48–47
Phil Murphy ESPN48–47
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges48–47
Nick Baldwin theScore48–47
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com48–47
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com48–47
John Pollock POST Wrestling48–47
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com48–47
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Sandhagen · 54%48-47 Dillashaw · 29%49-46 Sandhagen · 7%49-46 Dillashaw · 5%

1,785 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.

Cory Sandhagen

1.15takedowns / 15 min
1.15 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.56 / 15m
3.38 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.20 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
30%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

TJ Dillashaw

1.56takedowns / 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.

Cory Sandhagenclose only
no opening line on recordclose 64.5%
TJ Dillashawclose only
no opening line on recordclose 35.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Cory Sandhagen 64.5%, TJ Dillashaw 35.5%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Cory Sandhagen-164-20764.5%
TJ Dillashaw17035.5%
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 2026-08-23 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for T.J. Dillashaw, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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