Cage Captions: UFC on Fox Kansas City

[Ceiling Fan]

For those of you reading this for the first time, I write a series of articles about UFC events and the statistics and fun facts that follow. These include rare and unusual occurrences as well as a fighter's choice in walkout music.

Over the years, I have collected information from every UFC fight and attach the fighters' walkout music whenever available.

The reign of a dominant champion, big bucks for an instant middleweight contender, and the new losingest song in UFC history, all this and more on the next edition of Cage Captions!

Cage Captions: UFC on Fox Kansas City

Thanks for reading, and if you have any feedback, feel free to let me know.

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Bobby’s World
Bobby Green’s last three wins and last three losses have come the exact same way – a split decision, a unanimous decision, and a knockout.

Not Pudgy, Portly or Stout
Roy Nelson used Weird Al Yankovic’s “Fat” for the eighth time in his UFC career, dropping it to .500 after his loss to Alexander Volkov.

Nelson has alternated between “Fat”, Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” and Queen’s “We Will Rock You” throughout his lengthy UFC career.

 

[GSPTrainingInAPool]

Did not know Mighty Mouse had a 60% finish rate! GG

 

[Ceiling Fan]

Did not know Mighty Mouse had a 60% finish rate! GG

It's wild to think how dominant he's been in his title defenses. In 10 defenses, he's only lost a handful of rounds total. Finished 6 of those 10 defenses, 4 subs and 2 ko/tkos.

In his career, he has a finish rate of 57.6%. The average finish rate at FLW is somewhere in the 20s, last time I saw. He's a different kind of fighter, that's for sure.

 

[Onetrickpony]

It's wild to think how dominant he's been in his title defenses. In 10 defenses, he's only lost a handful of rounds total. Finished 6 of those 10 defenses, 4 subs and 2 ko/tkos.

In his career, he has a finish rate of 57.6%. The average finish rate at FLW is somewhere in the 20s, last time I saw. He's a different kind of fighter, that's for sure.

Good job as always. From what I understand Whittaker isn't to keen on that Bobby Knuckles nickname and is pushing the name he chose for himself (the reaper). How many rounds in a row did GSP have before he lost one? I remember it being a crazy amount.

 

[Ceiling Fan]

Good job as always. From what I understand Whittaker isn't to keen on that Bobby Knuckles nickname and is pushing the name he chose for himself (the reaper). How many rounds in a row did GSP have before he lost one? I remember it being a crazy amount.

Whittaker isn't crazy about the nickname yet, but you don't really get to pick your own nickname. It just happens.

And as for GSP, let's take a look.

Won the interim belt from Hughes who verbally tapped, don't have the scorecard for that. TKOed Serra, don't have the card for it either. But I can start with defenses:
Fitch - 50-43, two gave 50-44, starting with 5
BJ - Don't have the cards, but I think he won all four rounds, so that's 9 now
Alves - Two 50-45s and a 50-44, that's 14
Hardy - Picked up a 50-43, 50-44 and 50-45 so that's 19
Koscheck - All three 50-45, up to 24
Shields - Won the first three rounds on all 3 scorecards, so that's 27, and then two judges said he lost the last two rounds
Condit - One judge gave Condit the 3rd round, the others 50-45
Diaz - All three 50-45
Johny - Splitsville, Two judges gave GSP 1,3,5 and one gave GSP 3 and 5.

All told, that's a lot of rounds won for GSP. 27 rounds in a row after he started defending his belt. I could be wrong about the BJ fight, it's been a few years since I've watched it.

 

[Wild]

Took DJ 4 yrs 6 mo to win the belt and defend it 10 times. Speaks volumes about his durability. Hume must have his training regimen & recovery down to a science. Demetrious is never injured.

 

[Onetrickpony]

Whittaker isn't crazy about the nickname yet, but you don't really get to pick your own nickname. It just happens.

And as for GSP, let's take a look.

Won the interim belt from Hughes who verbally tapped, don't have the scorecard for that. TKOed Serra, don't have the card for it either. But I can start with defenses:
Fitch - 50-43, two gave 50-44, starting with 5
BJ - Don't have the cards, but I think he won all four rounds, so that's 9 now
Alves - Two 50-45s and a 50-44, that's 14
Hardy - Picked up a 50-43, 50-44 and 50-45 so that's 19
Koscheck - All three 50-45, up to 24
Shields - Won the first three rounds on all 3 scorecards, so that's 27, and then two judges said he lost the last two rounds
Condit - One judge gave Condit the 3rd round, the others 50-45
Diaz - All three 50-45
Johny - Splitsville, Two judges gave GSP 1,3,5 and one gave GSP 3 and 5.

All told, that's a lot of rounds won for GSP. 27 rounds in a row after he started defending his belt. I could be wrong about the BJ fight, it's been a few years since I've watched it.

Completely agree about the nickname and Bobby Knuckles is a damn good one, I hope it catches on.

I remember on all the prelims they would talk about how GSP hadn't lost a round over a certain period of time. 27 rounds is pretty damn impressive in a sport as volatile as mma.

 

[Jesus X]

cool

 

[benjo0101]

This is an awesome article series. Big fan.

 

[benjo0101]

Took DJ 4 yrs 6 mo to win the belt and defend it 10 times. Speaks volumes about his durability. Hume must have his training regimen & recovery down to a science. Demetrious is never injured.

Breaking news. DJ get's fatally injured in training after commentators curse strikes.

 

[Ceiling Fan]

Took DJ 4 yrs 6 mo to win the belt and defend it 10 times. Speaks volumes about his durability. Hume must have his training regimen & recovery down to a science. Demetrious is never injured.

It's crazy, he's only pulled out of two fights since he was in the UFC - 201 originally against Reis, with some injury we don't know about, and it pushed his title defense time from 3 months (it was going to be april to july) back five additional months to December.

Then, he tore his labrum after Dodson 1 in 2013, so a defense 3 months after that would have been Moraga, and it went back three more months (April to July).

That may be confusing, so let me TLDR it - He got injured in 2013 that delayed his defense against Moraga by 3 months, and then he got injured last July that pushed his fight back 5 months. So, he lost ~8 months total due to injury during that time. That's pretty impressive.

But, Anderson Silva...he has never withdrawn from a fight due to injury in his UFC career. Ever.