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Events · UFC 33: Victory in Vegas · Dave Menne vs Gil Castillo
From the tape · 28 Sep 2001

Dave Menne vs Gil Castillo

UFC 33: Victory in Vegas · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Dave Menne beat Gil Castillo

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Middleweight TitleTitle fightMain cardReferee · John McCarthy

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.

DM
Red corner DaveMenne“The Warrior”Menne Combat Academy · Minneapolis, Minnesota
VSOn the tape
GC
Blue corner GilCastilloCesar Gracie Fight Team · Concord, California
Middleweight Title5 rounds28 Sep 2001
The story going in
  • Lands 1.2 more significant strikes a minute than Castillo.
  • Averages 2.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Menne.
45-17-2
Record
8-5
−8 yr27
Age
35
+1″5' 10"
Height
5' 9"
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Menne Combat Academy
Gym
Cesar Gracie Fight Team
Minneapolis, Minnesota
From
Concord, California
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Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Dave Menne15 sig landed
HEAD33%5 of 9BODY53%8 of 10LEGS13%2 of 3
Gil Castillo0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed

15 of 22
Sig.
strikes
0 of 0
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 4
2:02
Control
2:27
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 8Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Dave Menne6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 12BODY33%2 of 2LEGS17%1 of 1
Gil Castillo0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed

6 of 15
Sig.
strikes
0 of 0
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 5
3:06
Control
1:04
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of action
Dave Menne14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 21BODY21%3 of 3LEGS29%4 of 5
Gil Castillo4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 9BODY50%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 29
Sig.
strikes
4 of 11
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:14
Control
2:48
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 45:00 of action1 sub attempt
Dave Menne21 sig landed
HEAD62%13 of 31BODY14%3 of 3LEGS24%5 of 7
Gil Castillo4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 10BODY25%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
21 of 41
Sig.
strikes
4 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:07
Control
3:12
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 13Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Dave Menne14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS29%4 of 5
Gil Castillo1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 1
14 of 18
Sig.
strikes
1 of 2
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
2:25
Control
2:07
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 4Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · John McCarthy
Official totals — Dave Menne first
JudgeTotal
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide49–45
Doug Crosby2.3 avg spread · 51% wide49–42
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide49–44

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Fan vote · unofficial

49-45 Menne · 91%48-46 Menne · 9%

11 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.

Dave Menne

0.46takedowns / 15 min
0.46 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.33 / 15m
0.92 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.40 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
45%
2.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Gil Castillo

3.33takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Dave Menne vs Gil Castillo.

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