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History · 2010 · UFC Fight Night: Florian vs Gomi · Rob Emerson vs Nik Lentz
From the tape · 31 Mar 2010

Rob Emerson vs Nik Lentz

UFC Fight Night: Florian vs Gomi · Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Result

Nik Lentz beat Rob Emerson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Dale Frye

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.

RE
Red corner RobEmerson“The Saint”MMA Lab · Newport Beach, California
VSOn the tape
NL
Blue corner NikLentz“The Carny”Kill Cliff FC · St. Paul, Minnesota
Lightweight3 rounds31 Mar 2010
The story going in
  • 6 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Lentz.
  • Is 17 points more accurate striking than Emerson.
  • Carries 22 points more takedown defence than Lentz.
18-12
Record
30-12-2
28
Age
−3 yr25
+1″5' 9"
Height
5' 8"
+2″70″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+46
UFC bouts
2
1/333% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
MMA Lab
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Newport Beach, California
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
Rob Emerson12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 36BODY8%1 of 1LEGS33%4 of 4
Nik Lentz15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 22BODY47%7 of 9LEGS13%2 of 2
12 of 41
Sig.
strikes
15 of 33
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 7
0:05
Control
1:48
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 4Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 7Ground 1
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Emerson1 sub attempt
Rob Emerson11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 26BODY9%1 of 1LEGS9%1 of 1
Nik Lentz11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 16BODY36%4 of 5LEGS18%2 of 3
11 of 28
Sig.
strikes
11 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 5
0:13
Control
3:18
1
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 3Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 4Ground 3
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rob Emerson1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 2
Nik Lentz20 sig landed
HEAD75%15 of 34BODY25%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 5
Sig.
strikes
20 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:01
Control
3:48
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 18
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.

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.

No scorecard record on file

This bout went to a decision, but no judge’s card for it has reached our sources yet. Rather than draw an empty grid, the section says so; it fills in on its own when the record catches up.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Rob Emerson

2.02takedowns / 15 min
2.02 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.30 / 15m
3.88 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
10.31 / 15m
52%
ACCURACY
32%
0.40 / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Rob Emerson↓ −2.9pp
open 44.9%close 42.0%
Nik Lentz↑ +2.9pp
open 55.1%close 58.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rob Emerson opened at 44.9% and closed at 42.0% (−2.9pp), 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
Rob Emerson11013044.9%42.0%−2.9pp
Nik Lentz-140-15055.1%58.0%+2.9pp
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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