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Events · UFC on FOX: Diaz vs Miller · Danny Castillo vs John Cholish
From the tape · 5 May 2012

Danny Castillo vs John Cholish

UFC on FOX: Diaz vs Miller · East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA
Result

Danny Castillo beat John Cholish

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Kevin Mulhall

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.

DC
Red corner DannyCastillo“Last Call”Team Alpha Male · Sacaramento, California
VSOn the tape
JC
Blue corner JohnCholishRenzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu · Hackettstown, New Jersey
Lightweight3 rounds5 May 2012
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 11 points more striking defence than Castillo.
  • Averages 1.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Cholish.
17-10
Record
8-3
32
Age
−4 yr28
5' 9"
Height
+2″5' 11"
71″
Reach
+3″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+34
UFC bouts
1
1/333% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Team Alpha Male
Gym
Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Sacaramento, California
From
Hackettstown, New Jersey
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 — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Danny Castillo20 sig landed
HEAD40%8 of 32BODY30%6 of 7LEGS30%6 of 6
John Cholish9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 16BODY11%1 of 1LEGS22%2 of 2
20 of 45
Sig.
strikes
9 of 19
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:50
Control
0:28
Distance 10Clinch 10Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Castillo firstJeff Blatnick10–9Michael Depasquale Jr.10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Danny Castillo13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 40BODY8%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
John Cholish11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 27BODY9%1 of 2LEGS27%3 of 3
13 of 42
Sig.
strikes
11 of 32
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:09
Control
0:23
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Castillo firstJeff Blatnick10–9Michael Depasquale Jr.10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Danny Castillo19 sig landed
HEAD47%9 of 37BODY11%2 of 2LEGS42%8 of 10
John Cholish9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 31BODY0%0 landedLEGS22%2 of 2
19 of 49
Sig.
strikes
9 of 33
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:56
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 7Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Castillo firstJeff Blatnick10–9Michael Depasquale Jr.10–9Dave Tirelli10–9

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.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Kevin Mulhall
Danny CastilloJohn Cholish
Official totals — Danny Castillo first
JudgeTotal
Jeff Blatnick2.0 avg spread · 40% wide30–27
Michael Depasquale Jr.30–27
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide30–27

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 6 scored, Danny Castillo first · unofficial

MM AWeekly.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Lotfi Sariahmed Sherdog.com29–28
Dave Doyle MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Castillo · 40%29-28 Castillo · 20%30-28 Castillo · 20%30-27 Cholish · 20%

5 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.

Danny Castillo

2.95takedowns / 15 min
2.95 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.82 / 15m
7.76 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.87 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
31%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

John Cholish

1.82takedowns / 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.

Danny Castillo↓ −13.6pp
open 55.1%close 41.5%
John Cholish↑ +13.6pp
open 44.9%close 58.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Danny Castillo opened at 55.1% and closed at 41.5% (−13.6pp), with John Cholish 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
Danny Castillo-14013555.1%41.5%−13.6pp
John Cholish110-15044.9%58.5%+13.6pp
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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