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History · 2022 · UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Strickland · Jared Cannonier vs Sean Strickland
From the tape · 17 Dec 2022

Jared Cannonier vs Sean Strickland

UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Strickland · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Jared Cannonier beat Sean Strickland

Method
Decision - Split
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMainReferee · 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 JaredCannonier“The Killa Gorilla”MMA Lab · Anchorage, Alaska
VSOn the tape
Blue corner SeanStricklandXtreme Couture · Anaheim, California
Middleweight5 rounds17 Dec 2022
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Lands 1.6 more significant strikes a minute than Cannonier.
18-10
Record
31-7
38
Age
−7 yr31
5' 11"
Height
+2″6' 1"
+1″77″
Reach
76″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
14
UFC bouts
+216
+42%6/875% of wins
Finishes
4/1233% of wins
MMA Lab
Gym
Xtreme Couture
Anchorage, Alaska
From
Anaheim, 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
Jared Cannonier16 sig landed
HEAD19%3 of 26BODY44%7 of 8LEGS38%6 of 9
Sean Strickland13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 43BODY31%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
16 of 43
Sig.
strikes
13 of 48
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:43
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cannonier firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jared Cannonier25 sig landed
HEAD24%6 of 28BODY44%11 of 18LEGS32%8 of 12
Sean Strickland28 sig landed
HEAD82%23 of 64BODY18%5 of 8LEGS0%0 of 1
25 of 58
Sig.
strikes
28 of 73
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cannonier firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Jared Cannonier33 sig landed
HEAD36%12 of 40BODY45%15 of 21LEGS18%6 of 8
Sean Strickland35 sig landed
HEAD80%28 of 73BODY14%5 of 6LEGS6%2 of 2
33 of 69
Sig.
strikes
35 of 81
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 33Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 35Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cannonier firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Jared Cannonier27 sig landed
HEAD52%14 of 39BODY41%11 of 18LEGS7%2 of 4
Sean Strickland33 sig landed
HEAD88%29 of 83BODY12%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
27 of 61
Sig.
strikes
33 of 87
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:05
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cannonier firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jared Cannonier40 sig landed
HEAD55%22 of 54BODY40%16 of 23LEGS5%2 of 2
Sean Strickland43 sig landed
HEAD86%37 of 102BODY14%6 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
40 of 79
Sig.
strikes
43 of 111
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 40Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 43Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cannonier 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
Jared CannonierSean Strickland
Official totals — Jared Cannonier first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide49–46
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide46–49
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide49–46

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 — 20 scored, Jared Cannonier first · unofficial

Shakiel Mahjouri CBS Sports50–45
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News49–46
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Nick Baldwin theScore49–46
Chris De Santiago MiddleEasy.com48–47
MM AJunkie.com48–47
Sheehan SevereMMA.com48–47
Jake Noecker BetQL48–47
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com48–47
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com48–47
Scott Fontana New York Post48–47
Bloody Elbow.com48–47
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com48–47
Combat Press.com47–48
Alex Behunin Cageside Press47–48
MM AMania.com47–48
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com47–48
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com47–48
Edwin Ayala Sherdog.com47–48
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com46–49

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Strickland · 32%48-47 Cannonier · 24%49-46 Strickland · 17%49-46 Cannonier · 12%50-45 Strickland · 7%

993 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.

Jared Cannonier

0.54takedowns / 15 min
0.54 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.66 / 15m
1.35 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.06 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
62%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Sean Strickland

0.66takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Jared Cannonier↓ −6.5pp
open 58.0%close 51.5%
Sean Strickland↑ +6.5pp
open 42.0%close 48.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jared Cannonier opened at 58.0% and closed at 51.5% (−6.5pp), with Sean Strickland 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
Jared Cannonier-150-11758.0%51.5%−6.5pp
Sean Strickland130-10342.0%48.5%+6.5pp
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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