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Daniel Cormier

UFC 11-3 (1 draw/NC)Pro 22-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Daniel Cormier’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

UFC recordUFC 11-3 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2013-04-20 · last fight 2020-08-15
Pro record22-3
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W W W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age47
Height5' 11"
StanceOrthodox

5' 11" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Heavyweight. 11 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 4 decision. Top 19% of Heavyweights: lands 4.25 significant strikes a minute.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

NicknameDC
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)San Jose, California
CampAmerican Kickboxing Academy
Height5' 11"
Reach72"
StanceOrthodox
Age47
Date of birthMar 20, 1979
Weight235 lbs.
Pro record22-3
UFC recordUFC 11-3 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2013-04-20 · last fight 2020-08-15
Finish split11 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 4 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Daniel Cormier has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, 3 of them, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Daniel Cormier in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Light Heavyweight295 weeks on the tables#6–10 · from the table of 24 February 2014#1–5 · from the table of 3 March 2014Champion · from the table of 25 May 2015No table on record · Mar 2016 – Apr 2016Champion · from the table of 12 April 2016No table on record · Oct 2016 – Nov 2016Champion · from the table of 7 November 2016#1–5 · from the table of 2 August 2017No table on record · Aug 2017 – Sep 2017#1–5 · from the table of 4 September 2017Champion · from the table of 20 September 2017No table on record · Apr 2018 – May 2018Champion · from the table of 16 May 2018No table on record · Aug 2018 – Aug 2018Champion · from the table of 29 August 2018No table on record · Oct 2018 – Oct 2018Champion · from the table of 31 October 2018#1–5 · from the table of 1 January 2019No table on record · Nov 2019 – Dec 2019#1–5 · from the table of 10 December 2019No table on record · Dec 2019 – Jan 2020#1–5 · from the table of 20 January 2020#6–10 · from the table of 2 March 2020First rankedBelt wonReign endsLast rankedHeavyweight159 weeks on the tables#1–5 · from the table of 4 February 2013No table on record · May 2013 – May 2013#1–5 · from the table of 21 May 2013#11–15 · from the table of 24 February 2014Champion · from the table of 11 July 2018No table on record · Aug 2018 – Aug 2018Champion · from the table of 29 August 2018No table on record · Oct 2018 – Oct 2018Champion · from the table of 31 October 2018#1–5 · from the table of 19 August 2019No table on record · Nov 2019 – Dec 2019#1–5 · from the table of 10 December 2019No table on record · Dec 2019 – Jan 2020#1–5 · from the table of 20 January 2020No table on record · Mar 2020 – May 2020#1–5 · from the table of 11 May 2020First rankedBelt wonLast rankedPound-for-pound271 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 28 July 2014#6–10 · from the table of 25 May 2015No table on record · Mar 2016 – Apr 2016#6–10 · from the table of 12 April 2016#1–5 · from the table of 15 July 2016No table on record · Oct 2016 – Nov 2016#1–5 · from the table of 7 November 2016#6–10 · from the table of 2 August 2017No table on record · Aug 2017 – Sep 2017#6–10 · from the table of 4 September 2017#1–5 · from the table of 20 September 2017No table on record · Apr 2018 – May 2018#1–5 · from the table of 16 May 2018No table on record · Aug 2018 – Aug 2018#1–5 · from the table of 29 August 2018No table on record · Oct 2018 – Oct 2018#1–5 · from the table of 31 October 2018#6–10 · from the table of 19 August 2019#1–5 · from the table of 14 October 2019#6–10 · from the table of 28 October 2019No table on record · Nov 2019 – Dec 2019#6–10 · from the table of 10 December 2019No table on record · Dec 2019 – Jan 2020#6–10 · from the table of 20 January 2020#1–5 · from the table of 27 January 2020#6–10 · from the table of 9 March 2020No table on record · Mar 2020 – May 2020#6–10 · from the table of 11 May 2020#1–5 · from the table of 19 May 2020#6–10 · from the table of 14 July 2020First rankedPeak #1Last ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
PeakChampionLight Heavyweight · May 2015
Weeks as champion202on the published tables
Weeks at #1–5196on the published tables, title reigns aside
CurrentUnrankedsince Aug 2020

Official UFC.com official rankings, 2013–present · rankings of 6 October 2026

A published rank holds until the next table changes it, so a band runs from the table that set it to the table that ended it — that is how a ranking works, and it is why an unbroken reign is drawn unbroken. Nothing is interpolated: the band is the last published STATUS, never a rank in between, and the hatched stretches are weeks the archive holds no table for at all. The champion band sits above #1 because a belt is not a rank. The three pound-for-pound tables — the combined one to January 2020, then the Men's and Women's ones — share a row, because they are one standing under three names.

Career rates facts

Career averages over Daniel Cormier’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.

Striking
Strikes landed / min4.25
Striking accuracy52%
Strikes absorbed / min2.92
Striking defence54%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.83
Takedown accuracy44%
Takedown defence80%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.40

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Heavyweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Heavyweight.
Striking76
Defence68
Grappling / TD44
Cardio44
Chin62
Fight IQ59

Strike zones

Strike zones

Daniel Cormier

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD74.8%ACC 50%BODY13.1%ACC 71%LEGS12.1%ACC 80%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 74.8% upstairs — +7.8 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
74.8% acc 50%+7.8 vs field
BODY
13.1% acc 71%−5.4 vs field
LEGS
12.1% acc 80%−2.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 60%CLINCH 23%GROUND 17%

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.

15 UFC fights · 911 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Daniel Cormier

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

1.83takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.83 landed per 15 minutes — −0.56 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS57
1.83 / 15m−0.56 vs field
ATTEMPTS52
4.16 / 15m−0.90 vs field
ACCURACY48
44%−7pp vs field
SUB ATT27
0.40 / 15m−1.31 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.29 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.

Ranked in Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 22-3. In the UFC: 11-3-1. Daniel Cormier’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.

Post-fight bonuses

5 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 2 Fight of the Night, 3 Performance of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2018-07-07POTNPerformance of the NightStipe MiocicUFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier
2018-01-20POTNPerformance of the NightVolkan OezdemirUFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou
2015-10-03FOTNFight of the NightAlexander GustafssonUFC 192: Cormier vs Gustafsson
2015-05-23POTNPerformance of the NightAnthony JohnsonUFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier
2015-01-03FOTNFight of the NightJon JonesUFC 182: Jones vs Cormier

The UFC's post-fight bonus programme began in 2006, so every total here is a career total since 2006. A fighter who fought only before then has no bonuses because the award did not exist yet. Fight of the Night is a shared award and is credited to both fighters. Performance, Knockout and Submission of the Night are individual awards, credited to the fighter the official record names.

Awards whose recipient the official list does not name are credited to nobody, so these counts are a floor: 245 of 1,339 Performance of the Night and 1 of 180 Submission of the Night awards are unassigned as of 11 October 2026.

Full UFC career — 15 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2020-08-15LStipe MiocicDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 252: Miocic vs. Cormier 3
2019-08-17LStipe MiocicKO/TKOR4UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 2
2018-11-03WDerrick LewisSubmissionR2UFC 230: Cormier vs. Lewis
2018-07-07WStipe MiocicKO/TKOR1UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier
2018-01-20WVolkan OezdemirKO/TKOR2UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou
2017-07-29DJon JonesOverturnedR3UFC 214: Cormier vs. Jones 2
2017-04-08WAnthony JohnsonSubmissionR2UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2
2016-07-09WAnderson SilvaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 200: Tate vs Nunes
2015-10-03WAlexander GustafssonDecision (split)R5UFC 192: Cormier vs Gustafsson
2015-05-23WAnthony JohnsonSubmissionR3UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier
2015-01-03LJon JonesDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 182: Jones vs Cormier
2014-05-24WDan HendersonSubmissionR3UFC 173: Barao vs Dillashaw
2014-02-22WPatrick CumminsKO/TKOR1UFC 170: Rousey vs McMann
2013-10-19WRoy NelsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 166: Velasquez vs Dos Santos 3
2013-04-20WFrank MirDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Melendez

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.

On the map

The 7 cities Daniel Cormier has fought a UFC bout in, the camp on the record and the hometown on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 7 bouts, 2014–2020Anaheim, California, USA — 2 bouts, 2017–2019Houston, Texas, USA — 2 bouts, 2013–2015Boston, Massachusetts, USA — 1 bout, 2018Buffalo, New York, USA — 1 bout, 2017New York City, New York, USA — 1 bout, 2018San Jose, California, USA — 1 bout, 2013Camp: American Kickboxing AcademyHometown: San Jose, California

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

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