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History · 2014 · UFC 177: Dillashaw vs Soto · Tony Ferguson vs Danny Castillo
From the tape · 30 Aug 2014

Tony Ferguson vs Danny Castillo

UFC 177: Dillashaw vs Soto · Sacramento, California, USA
Result

Tony Ferguson beat Danny Castillo

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightCo-MainReferee · Herb Dean

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.

TF
Red corner TonyFerguson“El Cucuy”Knuckleheadz MMA · Oxnard, California
VSOn the tape
DC
Blue corner DannyCastillo“Last Call”Team Alpha Male · Sacaramento, California
Lightweight3 rounds30 Aug 2014
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Ferguson.
26-11
Record
17-10
−5 yr30
Age
35
+2″5' 11"
Height
5' 9"
+5″76″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
6
UFC bouts
+410
+51%4/580% of wins
Finishes
2/729% of wins
Knuckleheadz MMA
Gym
Team Alpha Male
Oxnard, California
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 action1 sub attempt
Tony Ferguson11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 24BODY18%2 of 2LEGS36%4 of 7
Danny Castillo11 sig landed
HEAD100%11 of 47BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 33
Sig.
strikes
11 of 48
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:02
Control
2:31
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Ferguson firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Larry Landless10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Tony Ferguson10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 25BODY10%1 of 1LEGS50%5 of 6
Danny Castillo12 sig landed
HEAD100%12 of 42BODY0%0 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 32
Sig.
strikes
12 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:05
Control
2:32
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ferguson firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Larry Landless9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Tony Ferguson2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%1 of 2
Danny Castillo0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 13 thrown

2 of 15
Sig.
strikes
0 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:00
Control
4:26
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ferguson firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Larry Landless9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Tony FergusonDanny Castillo
Official totals — Tony Ferguson first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Larry Landless28–29

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 — 17 scored, Tony Ferguson first · unofficial

Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com30–27
John Pollock Fight Network29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
T. P. Grant BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com29–28
Severe MMA.com29–29
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer28–29
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
Cage Pages.com28–29
Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Ferguson · 53%29-28 Castillo · 30%30-27 Ferguson · 8%30-27 Castillo · 2%

229 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.

Tony Ferguson

0.39takedowns / 15 min
0.39 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.95 / 15m
1.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.76 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
38%
0.90 / 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.

Tony Ferguson↑ +3.9pp
open 67.4%close 71.3%
Danny Castillo↓ −3.9pp
open 32.6%close 28.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tony Ferguson opened at 67.4% and closed at 71.3% (+3.9pp), with Danny Castillo 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
Tony Ferguson-265-27067.4%71.3%+3.9pp
Danny Castillo18524032.6%28.7%−3.9pp
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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