By The Numbers: UFC Fight Night 218
Sergey Spivak just put the rest of the Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight division on notice.
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Here is a by-the-numbers look at UFC Fight Night 218, with statistics courtesy of UFCStats.com.
3: Consecutive victories for Spivak, tying him
with Curtis
Blaydes for the second longest active winning streak in the
UFC’s heavyweight division. Sergei
Pavlovich is No. 1 with five straight wins at heavyweight.
10: First-round finishes, among 16 professional victories for Spivak.
6: Takedowns landed in eight attempts for Spivak in just 3:05 of Octagon time. “The Polar Bear” also logged 2:32 of control time in the bout.
36: Total strikes landed by Spivak. Lewis, meanwhile, failed to land a significant strike in the bout, the first time in his UFC career that has occurred.
26: UFC appearances for Lewis. That ranks No. 3 in heavyweight history behind only Andrei Arlovski (39) and Frank Mir (27).
1-4: Record for Lewis in his last five Octagon appearances. “The Black Beast” has been finished in each of those defeats.
96: Total strikes landed by Devin Clark in a unanimous decision triumph against Da Woon Jung at lightweight. By comparison, Jung landed 43 total strikes. Clark also held a 39-to-18 advantage in significant strikes landed.
40: Significant strikes landed by Marcin Tybura in a hard-fought unanimous verdict over Blagoy Ivanov at heavyweight. Tybura distributed his attacks well, landing 12 to the head, 19 to the body and nine to the legs.
9: Unofficial media scorecards, of the 11 tracked by MMADecisions.com, that scored the featherweight fight between Doo Ho Choi and Kyle Nelson in favor of Choi. The official result was a majority draw, as Eric Colon and Chris Lee submitted 28-28 tallies after Choi was penalized one point for a headbutt in Round 3.
30: Significant strikes by which Choi outlanded his opponent. Nelson, meanwhile, was successful on five of 10 takedowns, while Choi did not attempt a single takedown in the fight.
54: Total strikes by which Anshul Jubli outlanded Jeka Asparido Saragih in a second-round technical knockout victory at lightweight. Jubli also held a 38-to-14 advantage in significant strikes landed.
21: Takedowns attempted by Zha Yi in a unanimous decision loss to Jeong Yeong Lee in a featherweight bout. Yi was only successful on five of those attempts, though he did log 8:19 of control time in the fight. That was ultimately offset by Li’s 66-to-37 edge in total strikes landed.
0:33: Time of Rinya Nakamura’s first-round knockout of Toshiomi Kazama. That’s the second-fastest finish for a debuting bantamweight in UFC history, behind only Nick Denis, who knocked out Joseph Sandoval with elbows 22 seconds into their UFC on FX 1 encounter.
2: Knockdowns landed by Nakamura in those 33 seconds of Octagon time.
10: Triangle armbar submission finishes in UFC history. Flyweight prospect Tatsuro Taira joined this select group when he used the maneuver to submit Jesus Santos Aguilar 4:20 into the opening stanza of their 125-pound clash.
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