Premium lightweights will take center stage for the
Ultimate Fighting Championship when
Beneil
Dariush battles
Arman
Tsarukyan in the
UFC on ESPN 52 main event this Saturday at the Moody Center in
Austin, Texas. Meanwhile, Jailin Turner tackles
Bobby Green
in the three-round co-headliner at 155 pounds, as the UFC returns
to The Lone Star State’s capital city for the first time in more
than a year.
As UFC on ESPN 52 “Dariush vs. Tsarukyan” approaches, a look at
some of the numbers the fighters on the bill bring to the
table:
8: Dariush wins by submission, accounting for 36% of his career
total (22). His methods of choice: five rear-naked chokes, two
armbars and one arm-triangle choke.
27: Years of age for Tsarukyan. The youngest fighter on the card,
he was born on Oct. 11, 1996 in Akhalkalaki, Georgia.
10: Pro mixed martial arts organizations for which Turner has
suited up. In addition to his 6-4 mark in the UFC, he has gone 2-0
in
Bellator
MMA, 1-0 in
Dana White’s Contender Series, 1-0 in
King of
the Cage, 1-0 in
Tachi
Palace Fights, 1-0 in the
World Series of Fighting, 1-0 in BAMMA USA, 0-1 in California
Xtreme Fighting, 0-1 in Smash Global and 0-1 in the California
Fight League.
11: Green victories by knockout or technical knockout, accounting
for 35% of his career total (31). His list of UFC victims:
Grant
Dawson,
Al Iaquinta
and
James
Krause.
1,250: Total strikes landed by
Rob Font as a
UFC bantamweight, placing him sixth on the promotion’s all-time
list at 135 pounds. Only
Aljamain
Sterling (1,670),
Merab
Dvalishvili (1,569),
T.J.
Dillashaw (1,522),
Petr Yan
(1,309) and
Pedro
Munhoz (1,305) have connected with more. Font toes the line
against
Deiveson
Figueiredo in a three-round bantamweight showcase.
692: Days spent by Figueiredo as UFC flyweight champion. His time
at the top was spread across two reigns, from July 19, 2020 to June
12, 2021 and Jan. 22, 2022 to Jan. 21, 2023.
14: Men other than
Sean Brady
who have held the
Cage Fury Fighting Championships welterweight title.
Tamdan
McCrory,
Chip
Moraza-Pollard,
Greg Soto,
George
Sullivan,
Jonavin
Webb,
Lyman Good,
Emmanuel
Walo,
Jeremiah
Wells,
Bassil
Hafez,
Evan Cutts,
Yohan
Lainesse,
Eric
Alequin,
Raheam
Forest and
Charlie
Radtke complete the list. Brady confronts
Kelvin
Gastelum in a three-round welterweight attraction.
70: Rounds completed by Gastelum as a professional mixed martial
artist. He has gone the distance on 13 different occasions and
carries a 7-6 record in those bouts.
41: Years of age for onetime
Strikeforce
champion
Clay Guida.
The oldest fighter on the card, he was born in Round Lake,
Illinois, on Dec. 8, 1981. Guida meets
Joaquim
Silva in a three-round lightweight feature.
95: Significant strikes landed by Silva in a third-round knockout
of
Jared
Gordon at UFC on Fox 31 in December 2018. It set a personal
high-water mark for the
American Top Team rep that stands to this day.
31: Seconds needed for
Punahele
Soriano to punch out
Rafael
Celestino under the
Titan Fighting Championship banner on April 6, 2018. More than
five years later, it remains his fastest finish to date. Soriano
squares off with
Dustin
Stoltzfus in a three-round middleweight appetizer.
4: Countries in which Stoltzfus has plied his MMA trade. He has
gone 11-1 in Germany, 2-3 in the United States, 1-0 in Switzerland
and 0-1 in France.
.746: Cumulative winning percentage between the 26 fighters slated
to compete at the event. They boast a combined record of 419-141-5.
Guida has recorded the most victories (38) and been saddled with
the most losses (23) of anyone on the card.