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Events · UFC Fight Night: Jedrzejczyk vs Penne · Niklas Backstrom vs Noad Lahat
From the tape · 20 Jun 2015

Niklas Backstrom vs Noad Lahat

UFC Fight Night: Jedrzejczyk vs Penne · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Result

Noad Lahat beat Niklas Backstrom

Method
Decision - Majority
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

NB
Red corner NiklasBackstromAllstars Training Center · Stockholm
VSOn the tape
NL
Blue corner NoadLahat“Neo”Xtreme Couture · Las Vegas, Nevada
Featherweight3 rounds20 Jun 2015
The story going in
  • Carries 56 points more takedown defence than Lahat.
  • Carries 23 points more striking defence than Backstrom.
11-3
Record
11-2
−6 yr25
Age
31
+4″6' 1"
Height
5' 9"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
2
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Allstars Training Center
Gym
Xtreme Couture
Stockholm
From
Las Vegas, Nevada
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
Niklas Backstrom1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY100%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Noad Lahat0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 1 thrown

1 of 3
Sig.
strikes
0 of 1
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:44
Control
1:30
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Backstrom firstMark Collett10–9Paul Sutherland10–9Raphael Vogt10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Niklas Backstrom6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 7BODY50%3 of 8LEGS17%1 of 1
Noad Lahat49 sig landed
HEAD78%38 of 59BODY16%8 of 9LEGS6%3 of 4
6 of 16
Sig.
strikes
49 of 72
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:27
Control
1:58
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 23Ground 14
Judges · this round · Backstrom firstMark Collett8–10Paul Sutherland9–10Raphael Vogt9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Niklas Backstrom4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 11BODY25%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Noad Lahat13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 23BODY8%1 of 3LEGS8%1 of 1
4 of 12
Sig.
strikes
13 of 27
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:30
Control
0:44
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 4
Judges · this round · Backstrom firstMark Collett10–9Paul Sutherland9–10Raphael Vogt9–10

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

Majority Decision

Referee · Marc Goddard
Niklas BackstromNoad Lahat
Official totals — Niklas Backstrom first
JudgeTotal
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide28–28
Paul Sutherland2.2 avg spread · 52% wide28–29
Raphael Vogt28–29

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 — 14 scored, Niklas Backstrom first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br27–29
Fergus O' Farrell Setanta28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–28
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–28
John Pollock Fight Network28–28
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com28–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–28
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com28–28
MM AMania.com28–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–28
Cage Pages.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Wrestling Observer29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Backstrom · 22%29-28 Lahat · 9%29-27 Lahat · 5%

58 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.

Niklas Backstrom

2.92takedowns / 15 min
2.92 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.37 / 15m
3.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.12 / 15m
80%
ACCURACY
26%
2.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.40 / 15m

Noad Lahat

2.37takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Niklas Backstrom↓ −0.9pp
open 64.4%close 63.5%
Noad Lahat↑ +0.9pp
open 35.6%close 36.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Niklas Backstrom opened at 64.4% and closed at 63.5% (−0.9pp), with Noad Lahat 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
Niklas Backstrom-215-19064.4%63.5%−0.9pp
Noad Lahat16516535.6%36.5%+0.9pp
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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