Mark Bocek became the first man to beat Nik Lentz in the UFC when he took a unanimous decision at UFC 140. With the win, Bocek raised his record to 10-4, 6-4 in the UFC. Lentz dropped to 24-2-1 (1 NC) for his career and 5-1-1 (1 NC) during his UFC run.
Bocek was able to win all three rounds on all judges’ scorecards on the strength of his takedowns an top control. In each round Bocek was able to find ways to get the fight to the ground and work with punches and elbows. Lentz did a very good job of preventing Bocek from passing and attacking with submissions, but he wasn’t able to do much offensively aside from some guillotine attempts. The chokes were deep at times but Bocek remained calm and survived and continued working his top game.
What was the high spot of the fight?
Not a whole lot of variety here but I guess I’d go with Lentz locking in a deep guillotine late in the second round. Once Bocek got out of that choke it was pretty clear that he was safe to take the decision.
Where do these guys go from here?
Bocek is a tough case. He has four career losses and three of them are to current top ten lightweights, the other was against Mac Danzig in one of Mac’s best UFC performances. I’d like to see Bocek get another chance to crack the top 25 with a fight against the Sam Stout/Thiago Tavares UFC 142 winner.
As for Lentz? He’s not exactly been fan friendly for a lot of his career and had one of the most fortunate runs I can ever remember in the UFC. You can’t cut the guy off one loss but he may find himself in the strange position of being in a do-or-die fight next time out despite only losing one UFC bout to date.
Watch it now, later or never?
Never. It’s a fine fight with interesting ground work. But given how much great stuff there was on the card, this one is skipable.
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