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History · 2021 · UFC 257: Poirier vs. McGregor · Nik Lentz vs Movsar Evloev
From the tape · 23 Jan 2021

Nik Lentz vs Movsar Evloev

UFC 257: Poirier vs. McGregor · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Movsar Evloev beat Nik Lentz

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Catch WeightMain cardReferee · Lukasz Bosacki

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
Blue corner MovsarEvloevAmerican Top Team · Sunzha, Ingushetia
Catch Weight3 rounds23 Jan 2021
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Unbeaten — 3-0 in the UFC.
  • Has finished 5 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Carries 18 points more takedown defence than Lentz.
30-12-2
Record
20-0
36
Age
−10 yr26
+1″5' 8"
Height
5' 7"
68″
Reach
+4″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+2124
UFC bouts
3
+36%5/1436% of wins
Finishes
0/30% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
American Top Team
St. Paul, Minnesota
From
Sunzha, Ingushetia
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
Nik Lentz7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 11BODY43%3 of 3LEGS14%1 of 1
Movsar Evloev7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 14BODY14%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 15
Sig.
strikes
7 of 15
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:46
Control
3:22
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Lentz firstBen Cartlidge10–9Eric Colón10–9Paul Sutherland10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Nik Lentz20 sig landed
HEAD45%9 of 33BODY35%7 of 8LEGS20%4 of 4
Movsar Evloev28 sig landed
HEAD89%25 of 48BODY7%2 of 4LEGS4%1 of 3
20 of 45
Sig.
strikes
28 of 55
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:33
Control
0:59
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 17Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lentz firstBen Cartlidge9–10Eric Colón10–9Paul Sutherland9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Nik Lentz19 sig landed
HEAD63%12 of 56BODY26%5 of 9LEGS11%2 of 2
Movsar Evloev47 sig landed
HEAD83%39 of 91BODY9%4 of 5LEGS9%4 of 4
19 of 67
Sig.
strikes
47 of 100
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:07
Control
0:15
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 47Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lentz firstBen Cartlidge9–10Eric Colón9–10Paul Sutherland9–10

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 · Lukasz Bosacki
Nik LentzMovsar Evloev
Official totals — Nik Lentz first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Paul Sutherland2.2 avg spread · 52% wide28–29

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 — 26 scored, Nik Lentz first · unofficial

Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com26–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Sheehan SevereMMA.com27–30
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press27–30
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport27–30
Ant Walker Sherdog.com27–29
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges28–29
Phil Murphy ESPN28–29
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Shakiel Mahjouri Fightful.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Adam Martin BJPenn.com28–29
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com28–29
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl28–29
Nick Baldwin theScore28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Evloev · 45%30-27 Evloev · 34%29-28 Lentz · 6%30-26 Evloev · 5%29-27 Evloev · 4%

157 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
4.78 / 15m
10.31 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.19 / 15m
32%
ACCURACY
52%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Movsar Evloev

4.78takedowns / 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.

Nik Lentz↓ −6.6pp
open 23.8%close 17.2%
Movsar Evloev↑ +6.6pp
open 76.2%close 82.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nik Lentz opened at 23.8% and closed at 17.2% (−6.6pp), with Movsar Evloev 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 Lentz30045623.8%17.2%−6.6pp
Movsar Evloev-400-64176.2%82.8%+6.6pp
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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