Issue 097

January 2013

Powerful Percentages and show-stopping stats from MMA’s past month

14

There were 14 former UFC fighters competing in a 24-hour span in November, in the ring of RFA 4, headlined by Efrain Escudero and Tyson Griffin; and World Series of Fighting 1, headlined by Andrei Arlovski.

2

After stopping light heavyweight Stephan Bonnar at UFC 153 in Rio in October, pound-for-pound great Anderson Silva is just two wins shy of equaling Matt Hughes’ UFC wins record of 18. Incidentally, Silva only has two fights left on his UFC contract.

50%

UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva recently joked he would consider a superfight with Jon Jones if given 50% of the UFC.

10

With only 10 seconds left before the final bell, Jacob Ortiz succumbed to a Douglas Lima TKO at Bellator 79.

2.2

Anderson Silva landed 70% of his significant strikes against Stephan Bonnar in the main event of UFC 153. Which is 2.2% better than his career average. Is ‘The Spider’ getting better with age?

218

The number of weeks between UFC fight-night bonus checks for American Kickboxing Academy’s Jon Fitch. He picked up ‘Fight of the Night’ after defeating Erick Silva in Rio at UFC 153 in October, his first since earning the same in a losing challenge for Georges St Pierre’s welterweight title in August 2008.

$6,000

On the debut card of new promotion World Series of Fighting, Muay Thai exponent Marlon Moraes earned $6,000 less than opponent Miguel Torres, former WEC bantamweight king, despite decisioning him. In disclosed earnings, Moraes got $12,000, and Torres $18,000.

5,000

At Bellator 76 in October, lightweight Eddie Alvarez leapt out of the cage and ran up the bleachers of the 5,000-seat Colosseum at Caesars in Windsor, Ontario, to celebrate knocking out Patricio ‘Pitbull’ Freire with a first-round head kick.