By The Numbers: UFC 271 Pre-Fight Edition

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Israel Adesanya and Robert Whittaker traveled down this road once before. This time, their roles as champion and challenger are reversed.

Adesanya—who dethroned “The Reaper” with a sensational second-round knockout a little more than two years ago—will defend his undisputed Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight title when he rematches Whittaker in the UFC 271 headliner on Saturday at the Toyota Center in Houston. Meanwhile, Derrick Lewis seeks his sixth win in seven outings when he collides with Tai Tuivasa in the three-round heavyweight co-main event.

As UFC 271 “Adesanya vs. Whittaker 2” approaches, a look at some of the numbers the competitors on the card have generated to this point:

39: Rounds completed by Adesanya as a professional mixed martial artist. He has gone the distance on seven different occasions and carries a 6-1 record in those bouts.

825: Significant strikes landed by Whittaker as a UFC middleweight, placing him third on the company’s all-time list at 185 pounds. Only Michael Bisping (1,384) and Brad Tavares (837) have connected with more.

21: Lewis wins by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for 81% of his career total (26). His list of UFC victims: Chris Daukaus, Curtis Blaydes, Alexey Oleynik, Alexander Volkov, Marcin Tybura, Travis Browne, Shamil Abdurakhimov, Gabriel Gonzaga, Damian Grabowski, Viktor Pesta, Ruan Potts, Guto Inocente and Jack May. Lewis owns one other win by submission and four more by decision.

5: Sub-minute stoppage victories on the Tuivasa resume. He buried Simon Osborne with punches in 20 seconds at Elite Cage Championships 2 on July 6, 2012, put away Erik Nosa with punches in 28 seconds at a Gladiators Cage Fighting event on Nov. 9, 2012, brought down Gul Pohatu with punches in 44 seconds at Urban Fight Night 5 on Dec. 12, 2015, struck down Brandon Sosoli with an elbow in 21 seconds at an Australian Fighting Championship show on June 18, 2016 and wrecked Harry Hunsucker with punches in 49 seconds at UFC on ESPN 21 on March 20, 2021.

150,000: Dollars in post-fight bonuses banked by Derek Brunson across his 19 appearances inside the Octagon. He has been awarded “Fight of the Night” on two occasions and “Performance of the Night” once. Brunson puts his five-fight winning streak on the line against Jared Cannonier in a pivotal middleweight showcase.

7: First-round finishes on the Cannonier ledger, two of them having taken place in the UFC. He knocked out Cyril Asker with elbows and punches 2:44 into their UFC Fight Night 86 encounter on April 10, 2016 and dispatched Anderson Silva with a leg kick 4:49 into their UFC 237 clash on May 11, 2019.

86: Total strikes by which Kyler Phillips has outlanded his four UFC opponents. The MMA Lab export has connected on 310 strikes against Raulian Paiva, Yadong Song, Cameron Else and Gabriel Silva while absorbing 224 in return. Phillips draws Marcelo Rojo in a three-round bantamweight feature.

6: Rojo wins by submission, accounting for 38% of his career total (16). His methods of choice: four armbars, one guillotine choke and one triangle armbar. Rojo holds eight other wins by knockout or technical knockout, one more by decision and another by disqualification.

13: Calendar years in which Bobby Green has fought at least once. The former two-division King of the Cage champion went 8-1 in 2008, 4-2 in 2009, 2-1 in 2010, 3-1 in 2011, 2-0 in 2012, 3-0 in 2013, 1-1 in 2014, 0-1 in 2016, 0-1-1 in 2017, 1-1 in 2018, 0-1 in 2019, 3-1 in 2020 and 1-1 in 2021. Green locks horns with Nasrat Haqparast in an intriguing lightweight attraction.

4: Countries in which Haqparast has competed as a mixed martial artist. The Tristar Gym standout has gone 9-1 in Germany, 3-2 in the United States, 1-0 in Canada and 0-1 in Poland.

43: Years of age for Andrei Arlovski, who was born on Feb. 4, 1979 in Babruysk, Belarus. As the oldest fighter on the card, he faces Dana White’s Contender Series graduate Jared Vanderaa in the featured heavyweight prelim.

24: Years of age for Casey O’Neill, who was born in Irvine, Scotland, on Oct. 7, 1997. As the youngest fighter on the card, she confronts the retiring Roxanne Modafferi in an undercard pairing at 125 pounds.

.748: Cumulative winning percentage between the 30 fighters booked to compete at the event. They sport a combined record of 465-152-5. American Top Team’s Arlovski owns the most wins (32) and losses (20) of anyone on the card.