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Events · UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2 · Nik Lentz vs Danny Castillo
From the tape · 19 Dec 2015

Nik Lentz vs Danny Castillo

UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2 · Orlando, Florida, USA
Result

Nik Lentz beat Danny Castillo

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · John Hosegood

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.

NL
Red corner NikLentz“The Carny”Kill Cliff FC · St. Paul, Minnesota
VSOn the tape
DC
Blue corner DannyCastillo“Last Call”Team Alpha Male · Sacaramento, California
Lightweight3 rounds19 Dec 2015
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
30-12-2
Record
17-10
−5 yr31
Age
36
5' 8"
Height
+1″5' 9"
68″
Reach
+3″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+215
UFC bouts
13
2/922% of wins
Finishes
+6%2/729% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Team Alpha Male
St. Paul, Minnesota
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 action2 sub attempts
Nik Lentz12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 24BODY42%5 of 6LEGS0%0 of 1
Danny Castillo15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 19BODY7%1 of 2LEGS13%2 of 2
12 of 31
Sig.
strikes
15 of 23
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:29
Control
1:57
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lentz firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–9Barry Luxenberg10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Nik Lentz25 sig landed
HEAD60%15 of 40BODY32%8 of 12LEGS8%2 of 2
Danny Castillo18 sig landed
HEAD83%15 of 47BODY11%2 of 2LEGS6%1 of 2
25 of 54
Sig.
strikes
18 of 51
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:33
Control
0:45
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 22Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lentz firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–9Barry Luxenberg9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Nik Lentz22 sig landed
HEAD73%16 of 37BODY14%3 of 7LEGS14%3 of 3
Danny Castillo24 sig landed
HEAD83%20 of 46BODY4%1 of 1LEGS12%3 of 3
22 of 47
Sig.
strikes
24 of 50
1 of 3
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:33
Control
0:51
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 19Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lentz firstDerek Cleary9–10Chris Lee10–9Barry Luxenberg9–10

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 · John Hosegood
Nik LentzDanny Castillo
Official totals — Nik Lentz first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Barry Luxenberg28–29

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 — 13 scored, Nik Lentz first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Adrian MacNair MMAMania.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com30–27
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–27
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer30–27
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Lentz · 64%29-28 Lentz · 21%29-28 Castillo · 15%

33 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.

Nik Lentz

3.30takedowns / 15 min
3.30 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.95 / 15m
10.31 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.76 / 15m
32%
ACCURACY
38%
1.20 / 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.

Nik Lentz↑ +4.1pp
open 51.9%close 56.0%
Danny Castillo↓ −4.1pp
open 48.1%close 44.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nik Lentz opened at 51.9% and closed at 56.0% (+4.1pp), 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
Nik Lentz-130-13951.9%56.0%+4.1pp
Danny Castillo-11011948.1%44.0%−4.1pp
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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