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Taking a UFC card right into headliner Lyoto Machida's hometown, the UFC brought with it some great battles and solid matchups for the hometown fans to get excited about. This card featured a slew of undefeated fighters dropping their first fights, the mother of all one-sided beatings, and a guy who has had more trouble with the scale than with his opponents.
Fight Facts: UFC Fight Night Belem
2/6/2018
Total number of UFC Fights: 4524
Total number of UFC Events: 428
Brazilians Bounce Back
After starting the year with just ONE win among 10 fights, Brazilian fighters on this fight night card roared back, winning nine fights with just two defeats (Cachoeira and Golm).
Stack the Deck
ALL eleven fights on the card featured a Brazilian fighter against a non-Brazilian, and each of the last TEN cards in Brazil have featured at least one Brazilian in every bout.
The last UFC bout in Brazil between two non-Brazilians was Fredy Serrano (Columbia) vs. Bentley Syler (Bolivia) at UFC Fight Night 62 in March 2015.
Go with the “0”
Of the FIVE undefeated fighters on this card, only one emerged with his record intact. Eryk Anders (10-0), Priscila Cachoeira (8-0), Marcelo Golm (6-0) and Joseph Morales (9-0) all tasted defeat for the first time in their careers.
Deiveson Figueiredo remained undefeated at 14-0, knocking the aforementioned Morales out of the ranks of the unbeaten to do so.
The Dragon Does
Winless since 2014, Lyoto Machida broke his three stoppage loss streak to pick up a split decision win over Eryk Anders.
Exactly 11 years to the day before his fight with Eryk Anders, Lyoto Machida made his UFC debut in 2007 with a decision win over Sam Hoger.
Since making his middleweight debut in 2013, Machida has served as the main event in ALL eight of the cards he has been on, despite holding just a 4-4 record in those main events.
Good Luck With That
With betting odds closing for Valentina Shevchenko as the -1100 favorite, the only other odds that wide within the last year were for Cris Cyborg against Tonya Evinger (-1250), and Demetrious Johnson against Wilson Reis (-1100).
Throw the Damn Towel
In just nine minutes and twenty-five seconds, Valentina Shevchenko outlanded her opponent by a staggering 230 strikes to THREE.
In the second round alone, Shevchenko landed 135 total strikes, while Cachoeira did not land any.
Scale Not Hit Back
For the THIRD time in four fights, Michel Prazeres missed weight by more than two pounds, but he has won all three of those bouts. As such, Prazeres is being forced to fight his next fight up a weight class at welterweight.
Since he missed weight by five pounds for his fight against Desmond Green, he was required to weigh in on fight day not above 173 pounds, but still hit the scales at 180 lbs. Despite the massive weight discrepancy, Green took the fight and while he lost a decision, he was awarded 40% of Prazeres’s purse.
Wrap It Up
Fighting out of the first round for the FIRST time in his career, Marcelo Golm spent more time in the cage with Timothy Johnson (15 minutes) than he had in his entire pro career combined (10 minutes, 52 seconds).
You Point, I Punch
In 8 of his 9 UFC wins, Thiago Santos has knocked out his opponent, with a lone decision win over Elias Theodorou along the way. Santos’s TKO of Anthony Smith gave him his 8th knockout victory at 185 pounds, tying Anderson Silva for the most knockouts in UFC middleweight history.
Go Out Guns Blazing
After getting TKOed in the second round by Thiago Santos, in 41 total fights, Anthony Smith has only gone the distance THREE times. Smith has 25 stoppage wins and 12 stoppage defeats in his career, with one undefined win as well in 2008.
Never Say Never Again
Coming into this event, the UFC had never travelled to Belem, Brazil (30 events in 12 Brazilian cities), Marcelo Golm had never fought beyond the first round (6 fights), and Desmond Green had never lost back-to-back fights (26 fights).
Couldn’t Be More Different
Before his bout against Tim Means, Sergio Moraes walked out to his usual walkout choice for his last seven fights of “Happy” by Pharrell Williams. In a sharp contrast, Means made his way to the Octagon with “Walk” by Pantera for the first time since he used the song in 2014 against Neil Magny.
With the respective tracks, Moraes has ended most of his nights happily with a 5-1-1 record, and Means has lost both of his fights when using “Walk”.
Unfortunate Sons
In the last SIX recorded uses of Creedence Clearwater Revival songs, fighters walking out to one of their songs have not won (5 losses, 1 draw). Joe Soto entered to the cage to “Run Through the Jungle” by CCR and lost by TKO to Iuri Alcantara.
The last recorded fighter to win while walking out to a CCR song was Jim Miller, when he beat Thiago Alves at UFC 205 in 2016.
If you have any questions, comments, queries or concerns, always feel free to let me know. If you want to know some other stats from these cards or are wondering about something else related to fight results or walkout music, I'm happy to take requests.
Thanks for reading, and if you enjoyed what you read here, check out my buddies at Combat Docket!
Taking a UFC card right into headliner Lyoto Machida's hometown, the UFC brought with it some great battles and solid matchups for the hometown fans to get excited about. This card featured a slew of undefeated fighters dropping their first fights, the mother of all one-sided beatings, and a guy who has had more trouble with the scale than with his opponents.
Fight Facts: UFC Fight Night Belem
2/6/2018
Total number of UFC Fights: 4524
Total number of UFC Events: 428
Brazilians Bounce Back
After starting the year with just ONE win among 10 fights, Brazilian fighters on this fight night card roared back, winning nine fights with just two defeats (Cachoeira and Golm).
Stack the Deck
ALL eleven fights on the card featured a Brazilian fighter against a non-Brazilian, and each of the last TEN cards in Brazil have featured at least one Brazilian in every bout.
The last UFC bout in Brazil between two non-Brazilians was Fredy Serrano (Columbia) vs. Bentley Syler (Bolivia) at UFC Fight Night 62 in March 2015.
Go with the “0”
Of the FIVE undefeated fighters on this card, only one emerged with his record intact. Eryk Anders (10-0), Priscila Cachoeira (8-0), Marcelo Golm (6-0) and Joseph Morales (9-0) all tasted defeat for the first time in their careers.
Deiveson Figueiredo remained undefeated at 14-0, knocking the aforementioned Morales out of the ranks of the unbeaten to do so.
The Dragon Does
Winless since 2014, Lyoto Machida broke his three stoppage loss streak to pick up a split decision win over Eryk Anders.
Exactly 11 years to the day before his fight with Eryk Anders, Lyoto Machida made his UFC debut in 2007 with a decision win over Sam Hoger.
Since making his middleweight debut in 2013, Machida has served as the main event in ALL eight of the cards he has been on, despite holding just a 4-4 record in those main events.
Good Luck With That
With betting odds closing for Valentina Shevchenko as the -1100 favorite, the only other odds that wide within the last year were for Cris Cyborg against Tonya Evinger (-1250), and Demetrious Johnson against Wilson Reis (-1100).
Throw the Damn Towel
In just nine minutes and twenty-five seconds, Valentina Shevchenko outlanded her opponent by a staggering 230 strikes to THREE.
In the second round alone, Shevchenko landed 135 total strikes, while Cachoeira did not land any.
Scale Not Hit Back
For the THIRD time in four fights, Michel Prazeres missed weight by more than two pounds, but he has won all three of those bouts. As such, Prazeres is being forced to fight his next fight up a weight class at welterweight.
Since he missed weight by five pounds for his fight against Desmond Green, he was required to weigh in on fight day not above 173 pounds, but still hit the scales at 180 lbs. Despite the massive weight discrepancy, Green took the fight and while he lost a decision, he was awarded 40% of Prazeres’s purse.
Wrap It Up
Fighting out of the first round for the FIRST time in his career, Marcelo Golm spent more time in the cage with Timothy Johnson (15 minutes) than he had in his entire pro career combined (10 minutes, 52 seconds).
You Point, I Punch
In 8 of his 9 UFC wins, Thiago Santos has knocked out his opponent, with a lone decision win over Elias Theodorou along the way. Santos’s TKO of Anthony Smith gave him his 8th knockout victory at 185 pounds, tying Anderson Silva for the most knockouts in UFC middleweight history.
Go Out Guns Blazing
After getting TKOed in the second round by Thiago Santos, in 41 total fights, Anthony Smith has only gone the distance THREE times. Smith has 25 stoppage wins and 12 stoppage defeats in his career, with one undefined win as well in 2008.
Never Say Never Again
Coming into this event, the UFC had never travelled to Belem, Brazil (30 events in 12 Brazilian cities), Marcelo Golm had never fought beyond the first round (6 fights), and Desmond Green had never lost back-to-back fights (26 fights).
Couldn’t Be More Different
Before his bout against Tim Means, Sergio Moraes walked out to his usual walkout choice for his last seven fights of “Happy” by Pharrell Williams. In a sharp contrast, Means made his way to the Octagon with “Walk” by Pantera for the first time since he used the song in 2014 against Neil Magny.
With the respective tracks, Moraes has ended most of his nights happily with a 5-1-1 record, and Means has lost both of his fights when using “Walk”.
Unfortunate Sons
In the last SIX recorded uses of Creedence Clearwater Revival songs, fighters walking out to one of their songs have not won (5 losses, 1 draw). Joe Soto entered to the cage to “Run Through the Jungle” by CCR and lost by TKO to Iuri Alcantara.
The last recorded fighter to win while walking out to a CCR song was Jim Miller, when he beat Thiago Alves at UFC 205 in 2016.
If you have any questions, comments, queries or concerns, always feel free to let me know. If you want to know some other stats from these cards or are wondering about something else related to fight results or walkout music, I'm happy to take requests.
Thanks for reading, and if you enjoyed what you read here, check out my buddies at Combat Docket!