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Danny Castillo

UFC 7-7Pro 17-10tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 7-7 first fight 2011-03-03 · last fight 2015-12-19
Pro record17-10
Current streak4 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L L W
DivisionLightweight
Age47
Height5' 9"
StanceOrthodox

5' 9" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 7 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 5 decision. Top 16% of Lightweights: avoids 62% of the strikes thrown at him and absorbs only 1.96 significant strikes a minute.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

NicknameLast Call
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Sacaramento, California
CampTeam Alpha Male
Height5' 9"
Reach71"
StanceOrthodox
Age47
Date of birthAug 25, 1979
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record17-10
UFC recordUFC 7-7 first fight 2011-03-03 · last fight 2015-12-19
Finish split7 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 5 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Danny Castillo’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 / min2.57
Striking accuracy42%
Strikes absorbed / min1.96
Striking defence62%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.95
Takedown accuracy38%
Takedown defence63%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.20

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.
Striking47
Defence84
Grappling / TD47
Cardio39
Chin46
Fight IQ53

Strike zones

Strike zones

Danny Castillo

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

HEAD66.2%ACC 35%BODY14.9%ACC 75%LEGS18.9%ACC 91%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 66% head / 15% body / 19% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
66.2% acc 35%+4.1 vs field
BODY
14.9% acc 75%−5.9 vs field
LEGS
18.9% acc 91%+1.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 57%CLINCH 15%GROUND 28%

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.

14 UFC fights · 471 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Danny Castillo

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

2.95takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.95 landed per 15 minutes — +0.73 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS78
2.95 / 15m+0.73 vs field
ATTEMPTS78
7.76 / 15m+2.21 vs field
ACCURACY52
38%−5pp vs field
SUB ATT11
0.20 / 15m−1.11 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.19 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: 17-10. In the UFC: 7-7. Danny Castillo’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.

Post-fight bonuses

1 post-fight bonus since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Fight of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2013-12-14FOTNFight of the NightEdson BarbozaUFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Benavidez 2

The UFC's post-fight bonus programme began in 2006, so every total here is a career total since 2006. A fighter who fought only before then has no bonuses because the award did not exist yet. Fight of the Night is a shared award and is credited to both fighters. Performance, Knockout and Submission of the Night are individual awards, credited to the fighter the official record names.

Awards whose recipient the official list does not name are credited to nobody, so these counts are a floor: 245 of 1,339 Performance of the Night and 1 of 180 Submission of the Night awards are unassigned as of 11 October 2026.

Full UFC career — 14 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2015-12-19LNik LentzDecision (split)R3UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2
2015-07-25LJim MillerDecision (split)R3UFC on FOX: Dillashaw vs. Barao II
2015-01-03LPaul FelderKO/TKOR2UFC 182: Jones vs Cormier
2014-08-30LTony FergusonDecision (split)R3UFC 177: Dillashaw vs Soto
2014-04-26WCharlie BrennemanKO/TKOR2UFC 172: Jones vs Teixeira
2013-12-14LEdson BarbozaDecision (majority)R3UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Benavidez 2
2013-07-27WTim MeansDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Moraga
2013-02-16WPaul SassDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FUEL TV: Barao vs McDonald
2012-10-05LMichael JohnsonKO/TKOR2UFC on FX: Browne vs Bigfoot
2012-05-05WJohn CholishDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FOX: Diaz vs Miller
2011-12-30WAnthony NjokuaniDecision (split)R3UFC 141: Lesnar vs Overeem
2011-11-19WShamar BaileyKO/TKOR1UFC 139: Shogun vs Henderson
2011-08-14LJacob VolkmannDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Live: Hardy vs Lytle
2011-03-03WJoe StevensonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Live: Sanchez vs Kampmann

Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.

On the map

The 12 cities Danny Castillo has fought a UFC bout in and the camp on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 2 bouts, 2011–2015Sacramento, California, USA — 2 bouts, 2013–2014Baltimore, Maryland, USA — 1 bout, 2014Chicago, Illinois, USA — 1 bout, 2015East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2012London, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2013Louisville, Kentucky, USA — 1 bout, 2011Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA — 1 bout, 2011Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA — 1 bout, 2012Orlando, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2015San Jose, California, USA — 1 bout, 2011Seattle, Washington, USA — 1 bout, 2013Camp: Team Alpha Male

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

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