Dakota Cochrane

Dakota Cochrane (born May 1, 1986) is a mixed martial artist from Fairbury, Nebraska. He trained out of Omaha, Nebraska at Premier Combat Center.

Mixed martial arts career

Early career

Cochrane competed 7 times as an amateur going undefeated. He made his pro debut in November 2009 ^[1]

Cochrane successfully began his professional career in late 2009 amassing a 4-0 start before his first loss to future UFC fighter TJ O'Brien in July 2010. O'Brien use his grappling to defeat Cochrane by rear naked choke early in the first round.

Cochrane bounced back from the loss bringing his record to 11-1 including a late replacement bout against former WEC champion Jamie Varner at Titan Fighting Championships 20 on September 23, 2011. The fight was taken on 4 days notice and was fought at a catch-weight of 165 lbs. Cochrane dominated the fight -both standing and on the ground- in a hard fought unanimous decision win.^[2]

The Ultimate Fighter

Cochrane appeared in the first episode of The Ultimate Fighter: Live facing James Vick. He lost to Vick via split decision.

Resurrection Fighting Alliance

Cochrane then fought former NCAA wrestling standout Ramico Blackmon at RFA 1 on December 16, 2011 in Kearney, Nebraska. Cochrane lost the fight by a 3 round unanimous decision in which Blackmon used his superior wrestling to neutralize Cochrane's stand up attack.

Cochrane lost for the second straight time in the RFA when he was submitted in the first round by Cliff Wright at RFA 2 on March 30, 2012. Cochrane took down Wright early in the round, but Wright was able to reverse the position, get Cochrane's back, and subsequently choke Cochrane unconscious with a rear naked choke.

Cochrane next defeated former UFC lightweight title contender Joe Stevenson in the main event of RFA 3 on June 30, 2012. After outstriking and outgrappling an out of shape Stevenson, Cochrane was able to sink in a rear naked choke to force the tap 64 seconds into the second round.

Cochrane won his second straight RFA fight at RFA 4 with a dominant victory over Derrick Burnsed. After escaping several submission attempts from Burnsed early on, Cochrane was able to latch on to a fight ending armbar late in the first round.

Cochrane defeated Deivison Francisco Ribeiro via TKO due to elbows in the third round at RFA 6, Cochrane dominated the fight before finishing Ribeiro.

Cochrane stepped inside the cage again at RFA 17 against Christos Giagos for RFA's inaugural lightweight title on August 22 at the Sanford Pentagon, which was South Dakota's first ever sanctioned MMA event.^[3] He lost the fight by KO due to an flying knee in round 2. This marked the first time Dakota had been knocked out in his career.

Bellator MMA

Cochrane stepped in for an injured Derek Campos to face Alexander Sarnavskiy at Bellator 128 on October 10, 2014.^[4] He lost the fight via rear naked choke submission in the first round.

Cochrane faced Ryan Couture at Bellator 135 on March 27, 2015.^[5] He lost the fight via rear-naked choke submission in the first round and was subsequently released from the promotion.^[6]

Pornography career

Dakota Cochrane has participated in gay pornography.^[7][8] He has performed in sixteen videos under the stage name of "Danny" and fully disclosed this information to the UFC in his audition tape for The Ultimate Fighter 15.

Mixed martial arts record

Mixed martial arts exhibition record

Res.	Record	Opponent	Method	Event	Date	Round	Time	Location	Notes
Loss	0–1	James Vick	Decision (split)	The Ultimate Fighter: Live	000000002012-03-09-0000March 9, 2012	1	5:00	Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	1 round TUF entry fight.

References

External links

• Professional MMA record for Dakota Cochrane from Sherdog