By the Numbers: UFC 310

Alexandre Pantoja defended his territory with a vengeance.

Pantoja gave a rude Octagon welcome to Kai Asakura, submitting the former Rizin Fighting Federation bantamweight champion with a second-round rear-naked choke in the UFC 310 headliner at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night. “The Cannibal” not only has three Ultimate Fighting Championship flyweight title defenses to his credit, but he’s also already cleared out much of the division. After vanquishing a star from another promotion, Pantoja laid down a challenge to flyweight GOAT Demetrious Johnson in his post-fight interview. Whether that happens remains to be seen, but there’s no question that the Brazilian champ is carving his own place in UFC history.

Here is a by-the-numbers look at UFC 310, with statistics courtesy of UFCStats.com.

13: Flyweight victories in UFC competition for Pantoja, tying him with Demetrious Johnson and Joseph Benavidez for the most wins in the history of the division.

7: Finishes for Pantoja in the Octagon. That’s tied with Johnson and Deiveson Figueiredo for most in UFC flyweight history.

32: Significant strikes landed by Pantoja in the abbreviated affair. By comparison, Asakura landed 17. The Brazilian also went 3-for-7 on takedowns and secured 2:46 of control time. Asakura did not attempt a takedown and secured just 24 seconds of control time.

7: Consecutive UFC wins for Shavkat Rakhmonov, tying him with Jack Della Maddalena for the longest active winning streak in the welterweight division. Rakhmonov took a unanimous decision over Ian Garry in the evening’s co-main event, ending his opponent’s eight-bout winning streak in the process.

11:41: Total control time for Rakhmonov, who landed two of 10 takedowns in the fight. Garry, meanwhile, landed one of two takedowns and logged 2:32 total control time in defeat.

42: Significant strikes landed by Garry. By comparison, Rakhmonov landed 37. Neither fighter outlanded his adversary by more than three significant strikes in any round.

8: Victories since 2018 for Bryce Mitchell following his third-round knockout win against Kron Gracie. That ties him with three others for the third most in the featherweight division during that timeframe. Only Alexander Volkanovski (10) and Dan Ige (10) have won more at 145 pounds since 2018.

117: Combined significant striking deficit for Kron Gracie during his current three-fight losing streak. During that stretch, Gracie has fallen to Mitchell (-20), Charles Jourdain (-48) and Cub Swanson (-49).

5: KO/TKO victories in UFC competition for Doo Ho Choi, who stopped Nate Landwehr 3:21 into the third round of their featured clash. That figure is the fifth most in UFC featherweight history behind Max Holloway (nine), Conor McGregor (six), Chad Mendes (six) and Cub Swanson (six).

4: Takedowns landed in five attempts by Choi. “The Korean Superboy” landed a total of three takedowns across his first eight UFC appearances. Choi also logged 7:13 of control time and outlanded his opponent by a 114-to-32 count in total strikes.

100: Significant strikes by which Dominick Reyes outlanded Anthony Smith en route to a second-round technical knockout victory. That’s the third-largest significant striking differential in the history of the UFC’s light heavyweight division.

0:52: Time of Vicente Luque’s submission triumph against Themba Gorimbo. That’s the fastest victory via anaconda choke in UFC history. The previous best: Yoshiyuki Yoshida’s 56-second tapout of War Machine at UFC 84 on May 24, 2008.

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14: Finishes for Luque, the second most in UFC welterweight history. Only Matt Brown (15) has more.

16: Welterweight victories for Luque, tying him with Matt Hughes for fourth most in UFC history at 170 pounds.

8: Consecutive victories for Movsar Evloev, the longest active streak in the UFC’s featherweight division. Evloev, who has won nine straight bouts in the UFC overall, took a hard-fought unanimous verdict over Aljamain Sterling at UFC 310.

136: Total strikes landed by Evloev. By comparison, Sterling landed 45 total strikes. Evloev enjoyed his biggest advantage in the final frame, outlanding his foe by a 72-to-13 count.

10: Combined takedowns landed by Sterling (six) and Evloev (four). Sterling also held a slight edge in total control time (6:16 to 6:09).

44: Significant ground strikes by which Eryk Anders outlanded Chris Weidman in their 195-pound catchweight matchup. After being dropped in the opening stanza, Anders rallied to outland his opponent by a 51-to-3 count in significant strikes — the majority coming via ground-and-pound — in Round 2 to force the stoppage at the 4:51 mark of the period.

3-8: Record for Weidman since December 2015, struggles that date back to when he relinquished the middleweight belt to Luke Rockhold at UFC 194.

165: Significant strikes landed by Joshua Van in a unanimous decision triumph over Cody Durden in a preliminary flyweight clash. That’s the second-most ever for a single fight in UFC flyweight history. Durden, meanwhile, landed 70 in defeat. Van has landed more than 100 significant strikes four times in his six-bout Octagon tenure.

7: Rear-naked choke victories in UFC competition for Michael Chiesa, tying him with Kenny Florian for second most in promotion history. Only Demian Maia (nine) has more. Chiesa tapped Max Griffin with the maneuver 1:56 into Round 3 of their welterweight bout.

8: Career submission wins in UFC competition for Chiesa, tying him with Frank Mir and Gunnar Nelson for sixth most all-time.

1: Submission defeat in 31 professional appearances for Griffin.

6,488: Age difference, in days, between Clay Guida (42) and Chase Hooper (25), the second-largest discrepancy in UFC history and the largest in modern history. Youth won out on Saturday, as Hooper dispatched his opponent with an armbar at the 3:41 mark of Round 1.

37: Octagon appearances for Guida, third most in UFC history behind only Jim Miller (45), Andrei Arlovski (42) and Donald Cerrone (38)