Jose Aldo makes the fifth
defense of his UFC featherweight title Saturday in Brazil at UFC 163 when he
faces Chan Sung Jung, who is ranked sixth in ESPN.com’s featherweight rankings.
In the co-main event, former light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida takes on
Phil Davis.
Here are the numbers you need
to know for the fights:
92: The percentage of
takedowns Aldo has defended in his WEC and UFC career. In 12 career fights
spanning the two organizations, opponents are 5-for-66 in takedown attempts
against the featherweight champion. Aldo defended nine of 11 takedown attempts
in his last fight against Frankie Edgar. In three UFC fights, Jung is 5-for-6
in takedown attempts (83 percent).
1: Both fighters have finished
a UFC fight with one second remaining in a round. Aldo ended his UFC 142 fight
with Chad Mendes in the final second of Round 1, one of just 10 times that has
happened in UFC history. Jung submitted Leonard Garcia with arguably the most
unusual hold in UFC history, the twister, at 4:59 of the second round at UFC
Fight Night 24. It was the only ending at exactly 9 minutes, 59 seconds of a
UFC fight until last Saturday when Jorge Masvidal accomplished the same feat
with a D’arce choke against Michael Chiesa at UFC on FOX 8.
8: Jung has eight submission
victories in his career, including five by choke. The twister victory against
Garcia won multiple awards for submission of the year in 2011. Jung also won
his last fight against Dustin Poirier at UFC on Fuel TV 3 by D’arce choke,
which was a candidate for 2012 submission of the year. Aldo has never faced a
submission attempt in 12 WEC/UFC fights.
7: Aldo is one of seven
undisputed titleholders from Brazil in UFC history along with Vitor Belfort,
Murilo Bustamante, Junior dos Santos, Machida, Mauricio Rua and Anderson Silva.
Aldo is the only Brazilian to currently hold undisputed gold after Silva’s loss
to Chris Weidman at UFC 162 (Renan Barao holds the UFC interim bantamweight
title).
4.6: Significant strikes
landed per minute by Jung. “The Korean Zombie” landed 89 significant strikes in
his WEC debut against Garcia, a fight nominated for 2010 Fight of the Year.
That total is just above the 74 he landed in four rounds against Poirier. Jung
is known to get hit as well, absorbing 3.8 significant strikes per minute,
including a head-kick loss to George Roop in 2010. Aldo lands 3.5 significant
strikes per minute.
7: Seconds needed for Jung to
knock out Mark Hominick at UFC 140, tied for the fastest official knockout in
UFC history. Jung needed just six strikes to finish Hominick. Aldo’s fastest
win is eight seconds, a knockout against Cub Swanson at WEC 41 in 2009.
3: Consecutive wins for Jung
in the UFC after two losses in the WEC. Ironically, those losses were both on
WEC cards where Aldo was defending his featherweight title. Aldo has won 15
consecutive fights, with his lone defeat coming in 2005. Four of Aldo’s wins
since becoming WEC/UFC champion have been by decision. In 16 fights before
winning the WEC/UFC title, Aldo had three decision wins.
6: Jung is the sixth fighter
from Asia to fight for a UFC title belt. The previous fighters (Yuki Kondo,
Yushin Okami, Hayato Sakurai, Caol Uno and Kenichi Yamamoto) went 0-5-1.
Yamamoto (UFC 23) and Kazushi Sakuraba (UFC Ultimate Japan) are the only
fighters from Asia to win a UFC tournament championship. Jung is the first
Korean fighter to challenge for a UFC title.
11: Knockdowns landed for
Machida in his UFC career, tied for fourth most all-time. In the light
heavyweight division, Machida is second to UFC Hall of Famer Chuck Liddell, who
has 14. Davis has not been knocked down in nine UFC fights.
74: Davis’ significant strike
defense percentage, fourth highest in UFC history. “Mr. Wonderful” is one of
the most difficult fighters to hit, absorbing just 53 significant strikes in
his seven UFC wins. In his loss against Rashad Evans, Davis was hit with just
38 percent of significant strikes. Machida is one of the best strikers in UFC
history, landing 57 percent of his significant strikes, which is seventh best
all-time. (Source)
