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History · 2013 · UFC on FUEL TV: Barao vs McDonald · Paul Sass vs Danny Castillo
From the tape · 16 Feb 2013

Paul Sass vs Danny Castillo

UFC on FUEL TV: Barao vs McDonald · London, England, United Kingdom
Result

Danny Castillo beat Paul Sass

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Neil Hall

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.

PS
Red corner PaulSassTeam Kaobon · Liverpool
VSOn the tape
DC
Blue corner DannyCastillo“Last Call”Team Alpha Male · Sacaramento, California
Lightweight3 rounds16 Feb 2013
The story going in
  • Every one of Sass’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Carries 30 points more takedown defence than Sass.
14-2
Record
17-10
−9 yr24
Age
33
+3″6' 0"
Height
5' 9"
+2″73″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+26
+75%3/3100% of wins
Finishes
1/425% of wins
Team Kaobon
Gym
Team Alpha Male
Liverpool
From
Sacaramento, California
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 action4 sub attempts
Paul Sass0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 2 thrown

Danny Castillo11 sig landed
HEAD100%11 of 23BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
0 of 2
Sig.
strikes
11 of 23
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
4:28
4
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 11
Judges · this round · Sass firstAaron Chatfield10–9Andy Roberts9–10Dean Weir9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Paul Sass1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 6BODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Danny Castillo18 sig landed
HEAD89%16 of 27BODY6%1 of 1LEGS6%1 of 1
1 of 7
Sig.
strikes
18 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
4:16
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 18
Judges · this round · Sass firstAaron Chatfield9–10Andy Roberts9–10Dean Weir9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Paul Sass3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 12BODY0%0 landedLEGS33%1 of 2
Danny Castillo9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 14BODY0%0 landedLEGS11%1 of 1
3 of 14
Sig.
strikes
9 of 15
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
3:29
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 8
Judges · this round · Sass firstAaron Chatfield9–10Andy Roberts9–10Dean Weir9–10

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 · Neil Hall
Paul SassDanny Castillo
Official totals — Paul Sass first
JudgeTotal
Aaron Chatfield28–29
Andy Roberts1.9 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
Dean Weir27–30

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, Paul Sass first · unofficial

Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca27–30
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com27–30
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
MM AWeekly.com27–30
Brent Brookhouse BloodyElbow.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com28–29
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Castillo · 94%30-28 Castillo · 6%

17 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.

Paul Sass

0.53takedowns / 15 min
0.53 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.95 / 15m
3.31 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.76 / 15m
16%
ACCURACY
38%
7.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Danny Castillo

2.95takedowns / 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.

Paul Sass→ no move
open 50.0%close 50.2%
Danny Castillo→ no move
open 50.0%close 49.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Paul Sass opened at 50.0% and closed at 50.2% 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
Paul Sass-120-10850.0%50.2%+0.2pp
Danny Castillo-120-10650.0%49.8%−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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