By the Numbers: UFC Fight Night 138
If there was any doubt before, there isn’t now. Anthony Smith has found a home at light heavyweight.
“Lionheart” weathered some precarious situations early to submit former title challenger Volkan Oezdemir in the third round of the UFC Fight Night 138 headliner in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, on Saturday night. With three wins in as many appearances at 205 pounds, Smith is beginning to look like a legitimate contender at 205 pounds.
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3: Consecutive victories for Smith, tying him with Jordan Johnson for the third-longest active winning streak in the light heavyweight division. Dominick Reyes and Jan Blachowicz are tied for the longest active winning streak at 205 pounds with four.
6-1: Record for Smith since December 2016. His lone loss during
that time came in a 185-pound bout against Brazilian knockout
artist Thiago
Santos.
36: Total strike advantage for Oezdemir. “No Time” was in control in the first two stanzas, outlanding Smith 45 to 28 in round one and 37 to 11 in round two. Smith held a 28-to-21 edge in total strikes before securing the finish in round three. All told, Oezdemir outlanded his foe 103 to 67 in total strikes and 77 to 63 in significant strikes.
23: Significant ground strikes landed by Oezdemir. By comparison, Smith landed just one.
19: Significant leg strikes for Oezdemir. Smith, meanwhile, landed six.
28: Finishes (17 KO/TKOs, 11 submissions) among 31 professional triumphs for Smith. The Omaha, Neb., native has gone the distance just once in seven UFC victories.
99: Significant strikes landed by Michael Johnson in a unanimous verdict over Artem Lobov in the featherweight co-main event. By comparison, Lobov landed 67. “The Menace” got stronger as the fight progressed, outlanding his foe 26 to 22 in round one, 42 to 31 in round two and 31 to 14 in round three.
2-5: UFC record for Lobov, who has gained notoriety as a primary training partner of former two-division champion Conor McGregor. Overall, “The Russian Hammer” has a 13-15-1 career mark with one no contest.
7: Consecutive fights that have gone the distance for Lobov. Nineteen of Lobov’s 30 career bouts overall have gone to the judges’ scorecards.
5: Finishes in UFC competition for Misha Cirkunov following his arm-triangle submission of Patrick Cummins on Saturday. That ties him with Ovince St. Preux for the most finishes in the light heavyweight division since 2015. In addition to Cummins, Cirkunov has stopped Nikita Krylov, Ion Cutelaba, Alex Nicholson and Daniel Jolly in UFC competition.
4: Submission victories in the Octagon for Cirkunov. That ties him with St. Preux and Renato Sobral for the second-most tapout victories in UFC light heavyweight history. Only Jon Jones — with five submission triumphs — has more.
2: Knockdowns landed by Andre Soukhamthath in a unanimous decision win over Jonathan Martinez at bantamweight.
6: Total knockdowns for Soukhamthath in his five-bout UFC career. Despite a 6-to-0 knockdown ratio during his promotional tenure, Soukhamthath has just one finish and two victories in those five fights.
4: Split decisions involving Gian Villante, making him the first light heavyweight to have four such verdicts in his UFC career. Following his split-decision triumph over Ed Herman at UFC Moncton, Villante is 2-2 in those contests. Incidentally, Villante has gone to a split decision four times in a row.
165: Combined significant strikes landed by Villante (81) and Herman (84) in the closely-contested bout. The vast majority of those were head shots, as Villante landed 69 and Herman connected on 63.
72: Total strikes by which Court McGee outlanded Alex Garcia en their welterweight tilt. McGee outlanded his foe 22 to 13 in round one, 55 to 16 in round two and 34 to 10 in round three en route to a unanimous decision triumph.
124: Significant strikes landed by Nasrat Haqparast in a unanimous decision triumph over Thibault Gouti at lightweight. By comparison, Gouti landed 78.
11: Unofficial media scorecards, of the 12 tracked by MMADecisions.com, that scored the lightweight bout between Jessin Ayari and Stevie Ray in favor of Ayari. The cageside judges saw things differently, as all three submitted scorecards in favor of Ray.
46: Significant leg strikes landed by Ray. By comparison, Ayari landed just seven. Ray outlanded Ayari by a 75-to-63 count in total significant strikes. However, Ayari had a 49-to-23 advantage in significant head strikes.
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