The Official Website for UFC fighter Nik Lentz.

Thoughts, Plans, Excuses, Media

Hi everyone, Its been a long time since I updated my website. This is mainly do to the fact that I'm more active on the other major social networking sites. From now on, If you want to talk, have a question, interested in an interview, or want to tell me to drop dead as soon as possible.....send it all to @NikLentz on twitter. I responded to almost all messages sent to me on twitter.

Now for the real issues. My fighting career, plans, and future. Lets start with how I feel about my last two fights. The first one with Bocek is simple. I made the mistake of trying to hurt and finish someone, whose only goal was to win by holding me down. Its simple to look back and see that all I needed to do to win that fight was escape from the bottom and continue to dismantle him on the feet. This was mostly bad planning on my part. Trying to land the punches on Bocek left me open for the take down. I should have relaxed on my feet, waited for the right opportunities to land strikes, stopped the inevitable take down attempt and then exploded with punches. Simple planning mistake, but that’s all it takes to lose a fight in the UFC. I did one of the worst things you can do as a fighter. Lose to someone whose skill level is below yours.

The Dunham fight is a different story. For some reason that I don't understand, people are dropping out of fights with injury after injury. This is something that just should not happen. If you are getting injured while practicing on a regular basis (Not injured in a fight).....you are doing something wrong.....I took the Dunham fight and had a total of three weeks to train for it. Three weeks is simply not enough time to train for a fight with a top ten guy, but I wanted to prove to the UFC and fans that I'm worth keeping around. So I asked to be the replacement. Could I be in proper shape for this fight, No......Could I have the perfect game plan, No......but simply put, I said #$%@ that, I'm going to beat him anyway. The fight was exciting, I proved that even without being able to train properly, I belong in the UFC octagon. The outcome is far from what I hoped, but that’s life. Things do not always go as planned.

Trust me when I say this....There is no one on this planet that hates failure more than I do. I was so upset at myself after my last two fights that I wanted to hide in a corner and rip my hair out while ending it Seppuku style. The training for the Bocek fight was horrible. Coming off of the shattered orbital and herniated discs in my neck was a lot harder than I thought it would be. I got sick multiple times during the camp. I had to avoid the normal training because of my neck. I couldn't sleep because my neck was in too much pain. Overall I let the injuries defeat me through most of my training camp for Bocek fight. Maybe I should have just called up the UFC and said, sorry can't fight, but I'm to stupid and hard headed for that...........Going into the Dunham fight, I got my injuries under control and felt like a new man. I truly feel if I would have had a proper ten week training camp for the fight it would have turned out differently. I would have been more explosive, stronger, faster, and overall the better fighter at the end of the day. To bad this is the real world, and I lost the fight. Its no ones fault but my own.

At the end of the day I accomplished a great deal of things. The illusion that Nik Lentz is a boring fighter is gone. I won FOTN for the second time, which helps my status with fans and the UFC, not to mention gives me a little extra spending money! I proved that I belong in the UFC and although there will be talk that Lentz is never going to be a contender, or Lentz can't hang in the 55 lb division, I know and proved to myself that this is all bullshit. MMA is not the safe guarded, recorded padding event that boxing has become. Look at the MMA greats, Randy Couture 19-11, BJ Penn 16-8-2, and many more people have tasted defeat and come back stronger. I felt like this one other time in my life, changed what I was doing, and went undefeated for 3+ years.

This is a changing point in my life. The only person to blame for my current failures is myself. Trust me, I wont be down for long. Posted: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:14:10 PM

Interview With WellPlayed

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Nerds Unite!!!!

Video games rot your brain, but if you want to play StarCraft with me my Blizzard ID is TheCarny. You can find me on Facebook or just send me a message on twitter or email. Posted: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 02:54:05 AM

The New And Improved NikLentz.com

As many of my fans have seen, my website has not been update on a regular basis. I have been quite busy with my fight training and have had a very busy schedule. I have also just kind of neglected it. So as of now, it will be updated on a regular basis. You will be seeing all my random daily activities along with what you will soon realize is way to much StarCraft playing. I will also be adding some fan pics as well as making sure that everyone is updated on my fight schedule. I look forward to getting to know more people and can't wait to meet more MMA fans. Here is a link to my Latest Fight Posted: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:50:31 AM

Check Out My Latest Interview With Minnesota MMA News

Lentz 'quietly' moving up UFC ladder Posted: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:00:14 PM

UFC 123

So I got home yesterday from my fight with Tyson and I feel a lot better than the last time I got home from a fight. Overall I thought fight night went well, I could have done some things better, but I was pretty happy with my performance. I would like to say one thing about how some people are saying “Lentz lost the fight!” This is just not true. Please do yourself a favor and dont look at the round by round updates from these websites. They are the most inaccurate things in the world. A lot of them say that I won only the third round and thats the one I lost. Watch the fight and make your own judgments (It may or may not be on my facebook) http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=501058965691

This sounds stupid to say, because my fight with Andre was like watching paint dry, but this fight was definitely a lot more exciting than my last fight. Lots of things went wrong in the Andre fight, I think a lot more things went right this time. Thanks to all the supporters that helped me train and get ready for this fight.

I also got to do something for this fight that was fun for me, and that was give one of my fans from Detroit two tickets to the show. (I will be uploading photos later) I will be doing this for everyone of my fights in the future. Where ever the show is, a local UFC fan will get 2 tickets to watch me fight. Stay tuned to my twitter for updates on dates and how to get the tickets.

The last thing I wanted to touch on was that remember I don't make the rules. If it was up to me we would fight until someone won, there would be no such thing as an illegal elbow, Knees and kicks on the ground would be legal, and judges would be a thing of the past, but its not. So I, like everyone else have to fight within the rules that they give me. Posted: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:14:28 PM

UFC 118 Thoughts

First off, I would like to thank everyone who was supportive during my training and after the fight. Without the structure and core people that help me prepare for my fights, I would not be anywhere. I would also like to thank the UFC for giving me the ability to fight and do what I feel like I am destined to do.

As far as how the fight went, I am both pleased and disappointed. I am happy that I was able to have my hand raise at the end of the fight. That is, after all, the overall goal of fighting. On the other hand, I wish it would have turned out to be a more exciting fight. In the first round I had a hard time taking him down. His height and length was hard to deal with and was clearly something that I should have prepared for better. It took me a round in a half to figure out what he was doing and how to counter it. I should have opened up and went after him a little more, but that’s easy to say in hindsight. Overall, like I said before, I’m happy I won, but I should have put on a better show.

Before this fight, I have never been so bombarded by people who though I was going to get KO’ed by Winner. I also knew that if I were to slug it out with Winner, even if I were to win the battles, I would have lost. There is no way that I could win a close decision with Winner. It is clear, that if you are going against a TUF alumni that the judges are going to be against you.

I’m sure as my future fights come up, you will see that this fight is an outlier. If you don’t believe me, check out my other fights with Rafeallo, Tavares, and Emerson. Thanks to everyone for writing and checking out my site. If you hate me or love me, I will always respond to everyone who talks to me. Thanks again for all the support and hell, I love you haters to.

The Carny
Posted: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:23:52 PM