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Events · UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till · Nathaniel Wood vs John Castaneda
From the tape · 25 Jul 2020

Nathaniel Wood vs John Castaneda

UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Nathaniel Wood beat John Castaneda

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain 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.

Red corner NathanielWood“The Prospect”Great Britain Top Team · London
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JohnCastaneda“Sexi Mexi”The Academy · Mankato, Minnesota
Bantamweight3 rounds25 Jul 2020
23-6
Record
21-8-1
−1 yr27
Age
28
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
69″
Reach
+2″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
Great Britain Top Team
Gym
The Academy
London
From
Mankato, Minnesota
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
Nathaniel Wood33 sig landed
HEAD27%9 of 29BODY18%6 of 10LEGS55%18 of 21
John Castaneda22 sig landed
HEAD41%9 of 30BODY14%3 of 3LEGS45%10 of 11
33 of 60
Sig.
strikes
22 of 44
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:05
Control
0:07
Distance 31Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Wood firstLukasz Bosacki10–9Mark Collett10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Nathaniel Wood52 sig landed
HEAD48%25 of 55BODY8%4 of 6LEGS44%23 of 27
John Castaneda17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 36BODY18%3 of 4LEGS12%2 of 2
52 of 88
Sig.
strikes
17 of 42
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:32
Control
0:00
Distance 50Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Wood firstLukasz Bosacki10–9Mark Collett10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Nathaniel Wood46 sig landed
HEAD54%25 of 59BODY9%4 of 6LEGS37%17 of 19
John Castaneda16 sig landed
HEAD88%14 of 42BODY0%0 landedLEGS12%2 of 2
46 of 84
Sig.
strikes
16 of 44
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:12
Control
0:04
Distance 42Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Wood firstLukasz Bosacki10–9Mark Collett10–9David Lethaby10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Nathaniel WoodJohn Castaneda
Official totals — Nathaniel Wood first
JudgeTotal
Lukasz Bosacki2.6 avg spread · 69% wide30–27
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide30–27
David Lethaby2.1 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 — 18 scored, Nathaniel Wood first · unofficial

Scott Fontana Couchside Judges30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl30–27
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Nick Baldwin theScore30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport30–27
Phil Murphy ESPN30–27
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Wood · 100%

31 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.

Nathaniel Wood

1.35takedowns / 15 min
1.35 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.49 / 15m
2.81 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.03 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
37%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

John Castaneda

1.49takedowns / 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.

Nathaniel Wood↑ +4.8pp
open 73.6%close 78.4%
John Castaneda↓ −4.8pp
open 26.4%close 21.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nathaniel Wood opened at 73.6% and closed at 78.4% (+4.8pp), with John Castaneda 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
Nathaniel Wood-365-44273.6%78.4%+4.8pp
John Castaneda25534526.4%21.6%−4.8pp
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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