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History · 2015 · UFC Fight Night: Magny vs Gastelum · Ricardo Lamas vs Diego Sanchez
From the tape · 21 Nov 2015

Ricardo Lamas vs Diego Sanchez

UFC Fight Night: Magny vs Gastelum · Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Result

Ricardo Lamas beat Diego Sanchez

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightCo-MainReferee · 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.

RL
Red corner RicardoLamas“The Bully”Chicago, Illinois
VSOn the tape
DS
Blue corner DiegoSanchez“Nightmare”Jackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Featherweight3 rounds21 Nov 2015
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Is 10 points more accurate striking than Sanchez.
  • 21 UFC bouts deep — 13 more than Lamas.
20-8
Record
31-13
33
Age
33
5' 8"
Height
+2″5' 10"
71″
Reach
+1″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
8
UFC bouts
+1321
+31%4/667% of wins
Finishes
5/1436% of wins
Chicago, Illinois
From
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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
Ricardo Lamas20 sig landed
HEAD30%6 of 26BODY25%5 of 7LEGS45%9 of 10
Diego Sanchez9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 27BODY11%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
20 of 43
Sig.
strikes
9 of 30
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:10
Control
0:29
Distance 14Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lamas firstMarcos Rosales10–9Roy Silbert10–9Cardo Urso10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Ricardo Lamas20 sig landed
HEAD45%9 of 17BODY0%0 landedLEGS55%11 of 13
Diego Sanchez12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 16BODY50%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
20 of 30
Sig.
strikes
12 of 22
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:29
Control
0:56
Distance 14Clinch 5Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 8Ground 2
Judges · this round · Lamas firstMarcos Rosales10–9Roy Silbert10–9Cardo Urso10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ricardo Lamas17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 27BODY0%0 of 1LEGS41%7 of 8
Diego Sanchez9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 32BODY11%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
17 of 36
Sig.
strikes
9 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:59
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lamas firstMarcos Rosales10–9Roy Silbert10–9Cardo Urso10–9

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Ricardo LamasDiego Sanchez
Official totals — Ricardo Lamas first
JudgeTotal
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide30–27
Roy Silbert2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 13 scored, Ricardo Lamas first · unofficial

Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com30–26
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Severe MMA.com30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com30–27
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Lamas · 62%30-26 Lamas · 14%29-28 Lamas · 7%30-25 Lamas · 7%29-28 Sanchez · 7%

29 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.

Ricardo Lamas

1.84takedowns / 15 min
1.84 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.51 / 15m
5.58 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.29 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
24%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Diego Sanchez

1.51takedowns / 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.

Ricardo Lamas↓ −2.5pp
open 81.1%close 78.6%
Diego Sanchez↑ +2.5pp
open 18.9%close 21.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ricardo Lamas opened at 81.1% and closed at 78.6% (−2.5pp), with Diego Sanchez 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
Ricardo Lamas-600-44581.1%78.6%−2.5pp
Diego Sanchez40035018.9%21.4%+2.5pp
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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