Issue 126

March 2015

Powerful percentages and show-stopping stats from mma’s past month

80%

Welterweight champion Robbie Lawler has the best takedown accuracy in the UFC with an 80% success rate, way ahead of number two-ranked Lyoto Machida at 63.6%.

6-0 

Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone fought and won six times inside the Octagon from January 2014 through to January 2015, climbing into contention at 155lb in the process.

4:17

Ronda Rousey’s average Octagon fight time ahead of her UFC 184 bantamweight title defense against Cat Zingano was a mere four minutes and 17 seconds.

42 years 9 months 25 days

Houston Alexander was little more than two months short of his 43rd birthday when he rematched Virgil Zwicker at Bellator 132 last month.

26,000

A capacity crowd of around 26,000 fans packed out January’s UFC on Fox 14 fight card from Sweden’s Tele2 Arena, making it the second biggest event in Zuffa history after UFC 129.

$12 million 

A fight between Conor McGregor and José Aldo could have been worth as much as $12 million in gate receipts alone staged at Dublin’s 80,000-capacity Croke Park stadium.

4/5

Conor McGregor has knocked out four of his first five UFC opponents. Each one was within two rounds. The only man to go the distance with the Irishman was tough Hawaiian Max Holloway, who has never been knocked out in his MMA career.