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Nik Lentz
30-12-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Nik Lentz’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder

Pro record30-12-2
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W W
DivisionLightweight
Age42
Height5' 8"
StanceOrthodox

5' 8" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 14 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 9 decision. Top 16% of Lightweights: averages 3.3 takedowns per 15 minutes.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.

NicknameThe Carny
NationalityUnited States
HometownSt. Paul, Minnesota
Fighting out ofKill Cliff FC
Height5' 8"
Reach68.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age42
Date of birthAug 13, 1984
Weight145 lbs.
Pro record30-12-2
Finish split14 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 9 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Nik Lentz’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min3.44
Striking accuracy47%
Strikes absorbed / min3.25
Striking defence50%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min3.30
Takedown accuracy32%
Takedown defence43%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.20

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Lightweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Lightweight.
Striking67
Defence46
Grappling / TD61
Cardio48
Chin69
Fight IQ58

Strike zones

Strike zones

Nik Lentz

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD60.3%ACC 38%BODY24.9%ACC 79%LEGS14.8%ACC 82%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 60% head / 25% body / 15% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
60.3% acc 38%−1.8 vs field
BODY
24.9% acc 79%+4.1 vs field
LEGS
14.8% acc 82%−2.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 61%CLINCH 20%GROUND 20%

Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

25 UFC fights · 1,079 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Nik Lentz

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

3.30takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.30 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.17 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS84
3.30 / 15m+1.17 vs field
ATTEMPTS92
10.31 / 15m+4.91 vs field
ACCURACY29
32%−12pp vs field
SUB ATT71
1.20 / 15m−0.10 vs field

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.

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.

Ranked in Lightweight

Recent form

Pro record: 30-12-2. In the UFC: 14-9-2. Nik Lentz’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.

Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.

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