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Nik Lentz vs Danny Castillo

Statlab take

baseline
Heavy favorite Confidence: High
Nik Lentz
Danny Castillo
84% 16%
Why
68"
Reach
Δ 3"
71"
31
Age
Δ 5y
36
30-13-2
Career record
Δ 6 pp
17-11
L1
Current streak
L3
14
UFC fights in our DB
13

Logistic-regression model trained on ~5,000 UFC/DWCS fights since 2016 (71.9% test accuracy). The "Why" panel shows interpretable inputs; the headline probability comes from the model.

Statlab projections

Method classifier: 0.55 accuracy on 2083 fights
Actual result
Decision - Split · Round 3
Lentz: 59 sig / 3 TD · Castillo: 57 sig / 2 TD
Nik Lentz
Danny Castillo
47
Sig strikes landed
32
93
Sig strikes attempted
70
76
Total strikes landed
53
2.0
Takedowns landed
1.6
4.7
Takedowns attempted
4.3
0.30
Knockdowns
0.10
187s
Control time
175s
Method
Decision
59%
KO/TKO
25%
Submission
16%

Stat regressor (GBT MultiOutput) trained on 8348 fighter-fight rows. Per-stat MAE vs naive-mean baseline: SigStrikesLanded: 25.4 (naive 28.2); SigStrikesAttempted: 52.3 (naive 59.4); TakedownsLanded: 1.1 (naive 1.3); TakedownsAttempted: 2.5 (naive 3.0); Knockdowns: 0.3 (naive 0.3); ControlTimeSeconds: 113.9 (naive 131.8); TotalStrikesLanded: 33.8 (naive 37.1).

Red corner
L1

Nik Lentz

"The Carny"
30-13-2 (1 NC)
Career record
Height
68"
Reach
68"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
31
In our database 14 fights · 8-4
Last 5
L UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Alves
W UFC Fight Night: Brown vs Silva
L UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Benavid…
W UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Rockhold
W UFC on FX: Belfort vs Bisping
Blue corner
L3

Danny Castillo

"Last Call"
17-11
Career record
Height
69"
Reach
71"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
36
In our database 13 fights · 7-6
Last 5
L UFC on FOX: Dillashaw vs. Barao…
L UFC 182: Jones vs Cormier
L UFC 177: Dillashaw vs Soto
W UFC 172: Jones vs Teixeira
L UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Benavid…