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Events · UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Tybura · Nik Lentz vs Will Brooks
From the tape · 18 Nov 2017

Nik Lentz vs Will Brooks

UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Tybura · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Result

Nik Lentz beat Will Brooks

Method
Submission
Round
2 of 3
Clock
2:05
LightweightMain cardReferee · Jim Perdios

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
WB
Blue corner WillBrooks“Ill”American Top Team · Schaumburg, Illinois
Lightweight3 rounds18 Nov 2017
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • 18 UFC bouts deep — 15 more than Brooks.
  • Carries 39 points more takedown defence than Lentz.
30-12-2
Record
18-4
33
Age
−2 yr31
5' 8"
Height
+2″5' 10"
68″
Reach
+4″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1518
UFC bouts
3
3/1127% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
American Top Team
St. Paul, Minnesota
From
Schaumburg, Illinois
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Nik Lentz23 sig landed
HEAD48%11 of 36BODY13%3 of 5LEGS39%9 of 11
Will Brooks26 sig landed
HEAD73%19 of 35BODY8%2 of 2LEGS19%5 of 6
23 of 52
Sig.
strikes
26 of 43
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:46
Control
0:33
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 15Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 4Ground 0
Round 22:05 of action1 sub attemptEnded 2:05
Nik Lentz11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 22BODY36%4 of 4LEGS27%3 of 4
Will Brooks23 sig landed
HEAD100%23 of 35BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
11 of 30
Sig.
strikes
23 of 35
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:12
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 3Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Nik Lentz

Round
2
Clock
2:05
Method
Submission

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Jim Perdios.

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
2.08 / 15m
10.31 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.08 / 15m
32%
ACCURACY
51%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Will Brooks

2.08takedowns / 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↓ −3.5pp
open 25.7%close 22.1%
Will Brooks↑ +3.5pp
open 74.3%close 77.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nik Lentz opened at 25.7% and closed at 22.1% (−3.5pp), with Will Brooks 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 Lentz26533725.7%22.1%−3.5pp
Will Brooks-385-41574.3%77.9%+3.5pp
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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