Built from Donald Cerrone’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher
6' 1" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Welterweight. 23 UFC wins — 10 KO/TKO, 6 submission, 7 decision. Top 17% of Welterweights: lands 4.41 significant strikes a minute.
The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.
| Nickname | Cowboy |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown | Broomfield, Colorado |
| Fighting out of | BMF Ranch |
| Height | 6' 1" |
| Reach | 73.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 43 |
| Date of birth | Mar 29, 1983 |
| Weight | 155 lbs. |
| Pro record | 36-17 |
| Finish split | 23 UFC wins — 10 KO/TKO, 6 submission, 7 decision |
Career averages over Donald Cerrone’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.
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.
Pro record: 36-17. In the UFC: 23-14-1. Donald Cerrone’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.
Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-07-02 | L | Jim Miller | Submission | R1 | UFC 276: Adesanya vs. Cannonier |
| 2021-05-08 | L | Alex Morono | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Waterson |
| 2020-09-19 | D | Niko Price | Overturned | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Woodley |
| 2020-05-09 | L | Anthony Pettis | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje |
| 2020-01-18 | L | Conor McGregor | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 246: McGregor vs. Cowboy |
| 2019-09-14 | L | Justin Gaethje | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Gaethje |
| 2019-06-08 | L | Tony Ferguson | TKO (doctor) | R2 | UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes |
| 2019-05-04 | W | Al Iaquinta | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Iaquinta vs. Cowboy |
| 2019-01-19 | W | Alexander Hernandez | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Dillashaw |
| 2018-11-10 | W | Mike Perry | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Korean Zombie vs. Rodriguez |
| 2018-06-23 | L | Leon Edwards | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Edwards |
| 2018-02-18 | W | Yancy Medeiros | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Medeiros |
| 2017-10-21 | L | Darren Till | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Till |
| 2017-07-29 | L | Robbie Lawler | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 214: Cormier vs. Jones 2 |
| 2017-01-28 | L | Jorge Masvidal | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC on FOX: Shevchenko vs. Pena |
| 2016-12-10 | W | Matt Brown | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC 206: Holloway vs. Pettis |
| 2016-08-20 | W | Rick Story | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2 |
| 2016-06-18 | W | Patrick Cote | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs Thompson |
| 2016-02-21 | W | Alex Oliveira | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs Cowboy |
| 2015-12-19 | L | Rafael Dos Anjos | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2 |
| 2015-05-23 | W | John Makdessi | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier |
| 2015-01-18 | W | Benson Henderson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs Siver |
| 2015-01-03 | W | Myles Jury | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 182: Jones vs Cormier |
| 2014-09-27 | W | Eddie Alvarez | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 178: Johnson vs Cariaso |
| 2014-07-16 | W | Jim Miller | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs Miller |
| 2014-04-19 | W | Edson Barboza | Submission | R1 | UFC on FOX: Werdum vs Browne |
| 2014-01-25 | W | Adriano Martins | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Thomson |
| 2013-11-16 | W | Evan Dunham | Submission | R2 | UFC 167: St-Pierre vs Hendricks |
| 2013-08-28 | L | Rafael Dos Anjos | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann 2 |
| 2013-05-25 | W | KJ Noons | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 160: Velasquez vs Silva 2 |
| 2013-01-26 | L | Anthony Pettis | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Dodson |
| 2012-08-11 | W | Melvin Guillard | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 150: Henderson vs Edgar II |
| 2012-05-15 | W | Jeremy Stephens | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FUEL TV: Korean Zombie vs Poirier |
| 2011-12-30 | L | Nate Diaz | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 141: Lesnar vs Overeem |
| 2011-10-29 | W | Dennis Siver | Submission | R1 | UFC 137: Penn vs Diaz |
| 2011-08-14 | W | Charles Oliveira | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Live: Hardy vs Lytle |
| 2011-06-11 | W | Vagner Rocha | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 131: Dos Santos vs Carwin |
| 2011-02-05 | W | Paul Kelly | Submission | R2 | UFC 126: Silva vs Belfort |
Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.