Kill Cliff Fight Club
’s
Vicente
Luque will return to the
Ultimate Fighting Championship stage for the first time in more
than a year when he takes on
Rafael dos
Anjos in the
UFC on ESPN 51 headliner this Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las
Vegas. Meanwhile, the venerable
Cub Swanson
tackles
Hakeem
Dawodu in the three-round featherweight co-main event at 145
pounds.
As UFC on ESPN 51 “Luque vs. Dos Anjos” approaches, a look at some
of the numbers the fighters on the card bring to the table:
400,000: Dollars in post-fight bonuses banked by Luque across his
19 appearances in the UFC. He has been awarded “Performance of the
Night” on four occasions and “Fight of the Night” on four
others.
1,716: Significant strikes landed by dos Anjos as a member of the
UFC roster, placing him sixth on the promotion’s all-time list.
Only
Max
Holloway (3,122),
Angela Hill
(1,820),
Frankie
Edgar (1,801),
Joanna
Jedrzejczyk (1,754) and
Donald
Cerrone (1,748) have been credited with more.
39: Years of age for Swanson. The oldest fighter on the card, he
was born on Nov. 2, 1983 in Palm Springs, California.
7: Dawodu wins by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for
54% of his career total (13). His complete list of victims:
Yoshinori
Horie,
Marat
Magomedov,
Chuka
Willis,
Tristan
Johnson,
Mike Malott,
Jake
Macdonald and
Behrang
Yousefi. Dawodu owns six other wins by decision (46%).
2: Sub-minute stoppages on the
Khalil
Rountree resume. He punched out
Blake Troop
in 39 seconds at a
Resurrection Fighting Alliance show on Dec. 5, 2015 and cut
down
Daniel
Jolly with a knee at UFC Fight Night 104 on Feb. 4, 2017.
Rountree collides with
Chris
Daukaus in a three-round light heavyweight showcase.
10: Consecutive calendar years in which Daukaus has fought at least
once. He went 1-0 in 2013, 0-1 in 2014, 1-1 in 2015, 1-0 in 2016,
2-0 in 2017, 2-0 in 2018, 1-1 in 2019, 2-0 in 2020, 2-1 in 2021 and
0-2 in 2022.
21: Years of age for
Iasmin
Lucindo. The youngest fighter on the card, she was born on Jan.
8, 2002 in Fortaleza, Brazil. Lucindo faces
Polyana
Viana in a three-round women’s strawweight attraction.
8: Viana victories by submission, accounting for 62% of her career
total (13). Her methods of choice: six armbars and two rear-naked
chokes. Viana holds five other victories by knockout or technical
knockout (38%).
169: Total strikes by which
A.J. Dobson
has been outlanded during his two UFC assignments, both of them
losses.
Jacob
Malkoun and
Armen
Petrosyan combined to eclipse him by a 301-132 margin. Dobson
toes the line against
Tafon
Nchukwi in a three-round middleweight feature.
4: Organizations for which Nchukwi has plied his mixed martial arts
trade. In addition to his 2-3 mark in the UFC, he has gone 2-0 in
Cage Fury Fighting Championships, 1-0 in
Dana White’s Contender Series and 1-0 in Shogun Fights.
86: Seconds needed for
Josh Fremd
to wipe out
Lamar Gosey
with a knee under the
Legacy Fighting Alliance banner on Aug. 28, 2020. Nearly three
years later, it remains his fastest finish to date. Fremd locks
horns with
Jamie
Pickett in a three-round middleweight battle.
43: Rounds completed by Pickett as a professional mixed martial
artist. He has gone the distance on seven different occasions and
carries a 4-3 record in those bouts.
.717: Cumulative winning percentage between the 26 fighters booked
to compete at the event. They sport a combined record of 309-121-3.
Dos Anjos has the most wins (32) and losses (14) of anyone on the
card.