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Events · UFC on FX: Belfort vs Bisping · Diego Nunes vs Nik Lentz
From the tape · 19 Jan 2013

Diego Nunes vs Nik Lentz

UFC on FX: Belfort vs Bisping · Sao Paulo, Brazil
Result

Nik Lentz beat Diego Nunes

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

DN
Red corner DiegoNunes“The Gun”Evolucao Thai · Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul
VSOn the tape
NL
Blue corner NikLentz“The Carny”Kill Cliff FC · St. Paul, Minnesota
Featherweight3 rounds19 Jan 2013
The story going in
  • Carries 22 points more takedown defence than Lentz.
  • Has finished 2 of 6 UFC wins.
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Nunes.
19-7
Record
30-12-2
30
Age
−2 yr28
5' 6"
Height
+2″5' 8"
67″
Reach
+1″68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
5
UFC bouts
+510
0/30% of wins
Finishes
+33%2/633% of wins
Evolucao Thai
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul
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 — 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
Diego Nunes1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 1
Nik Lentz25 sig landed
HEAD68%17 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS32%8 of 9
1 of 4
Sig.
strikes
25 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
5 of 10
0:00
Control
4:24
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 10Ground 13
Judges · this round · Nunes firstRomulo Bittencourt9–10Mark Collett9–10Sal D'Amato8–10
Round 25:00 of action
Diego Nunes6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 3BODY33%2 of 3LEGS17%1 of 1
Nik Lentz19 sig landed
HEAD53%10 of 16BODY21%4 of 4LEGS26%5 of 5
6 of 7
Sig.
strikes
19 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
4:14
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 16
Judges · this round · Nunes firstRomulo Bittencourt9–10Mark Collett9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Diego Nunes11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 18BODY18%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Nik Lentz12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 16BODY25%3 of 3LEGS17%2 of 2
11 of 21
Sig.
strikes
12 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
4 of 9
0:00
Control
3:32
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 5Ground 2
Judges · this round · Nunes firstRomulo Bittencourt10–10Mark Collett9–10Sal D'Amato9–10

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Diego NunesNik Lentz
Official totals — Diego Nunes first
JudgeTotal
Romulo Bittencourt28–30
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide27–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide26–30

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 — 9 scored, Diego Nunes first · unofficial

Mike Whitman Sherdog.com26–30
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com26–30
Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
MM AWeekly.com27–30
Brent Brookhouse BloodyElbow.com27–30
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Lentz · 74%30-26 Lentz · 21%29-28 Lentz · 5%

19 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.

Diego Nunes

1.18takedowns / 15 min
1.18 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.30 / 15m
2.68 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
10.31 / 15m
44%
ACCURACY
32%
0.60 / 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.

Diego Nunes→ no move
open 56.9%close 57.1%
Nik Lentz→ no move
open 43.1%close 42.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Diego Nunes opened at 56.9% and closed at 57.1% once the vig is taken out — a 0.2pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Diego Nunes-150-14256.9%57.1%+0.2pp
Nik Lentz12012743.1%42.9%−0.2pp
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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