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Events · UFC Fight Night: Maynard vs Diaz · Thiago Tavares vs Nik Lentz
From the tape · 11 Jan 2010

Thiago Tavares vs Nik Lentz

UFC Fight Night: Maynard vs Diaz · Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Result

No winner recorded The official record carries no winner for this bout — a draw, a no-contest or an overturned result.

Method
Decision - Majority
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Mario Yamasaki

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.

TT
Red corner ThiagoTavaresTeam Tavares · Florianopolis, Santa Catarina
VSOn the tape
NL
Blue corner NikLentz“The Carny”Kill Cliff FC · St. Paul, Minnesota
Lightweight3 rounds11 Jan 2010
The story going in
  • 7 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Lentz.
  • Lands 1.4 more significant strikes a minute than Tavares.
  • Carries 19 points more takedown defence than Lentz.
21-7-1
Record
30-12-2
25
Age
25
5' 7"
Height
+1″5' 8"
+2″70″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+67
UFC bouts
1
1/425% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Team Tavares
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Florianopolis, Santa Catarina
From
St. Paul, Minnesota
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Thiago Tavares6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 18BODY17%1 of 3LEGS33%2 of 2
Nik Lentz16 sig landed
HEAD38%6 of 41BODY31%5 of 6LEGS31%5 of 6
6 of 23
Sig.
strikes
16 of 53
0 of 3
Take-
downs
3 of 5
0:30
Control
1:27
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 2
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Thiago Tavares18 sig landed
HEAD56%10 of 39BODY33%6 of 6LEGS11%2 of 3
Nik Lentz27 sig landed
HEAD48%13 of 54BODY33%9 of 12LEGS19%5 of 7
18 of 48
Sig.
strikes
27 of 73
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:58
Control
0:10
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 12Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 5Ground 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 actionEnded 5:00
Thiago Tavares31 sig landed
HEAD81%25 of 65BODY13%4 of 8LEGS6%2 of 2
Nik Lentz28 sig landed
HEAD61%17 of 67BODY14%4 of 6LEGS25%7 of 7
31 of 75
Sig.
strikes
28 of 80
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
0:18
Control
0:16
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 29Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 3Ground 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

Decision - Majority

Referee · Mario Yamasaki
Official totals — unassigned
JudgeTotal
Judge 128–28
Judge 228–28
Judge 329–27

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.

The record does not say which fighter each of these totals belongs to, so the judges are shown unnamed and the scores unassigned. We would rather print less than attribute a card to the wrong man.

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.

Thiago Tavares

3.83takedowns / 15 min
3.83 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.30 / 15m
9.12 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
10.31 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
32%
1.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Nik Lentz

3.30takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Thiago Tavares↓ −3.4pp
open 68.4%close 65.0%
Nik Lentz↑ +3.4pp
open 31.6%close 35.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Thiago Tavares opened at 68.4% and closed at 65.0% (−3.4pp), with Nik Lentz 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
Thiago Tavares-260-22068.4%65.0%−3.4pp
Nik Lentz20017031.6%35.0%+3.4pp
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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