While reigning
Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight titleholder
Alexander
Volkanovski sets plans to go big-game hunting, those in line
behind him at 145 pounds will be left to battle over the scraps
that remain in his absence. The group includes
Calvin
Kattar and
Arnold
Allen, the participants in the
UFC Fight Night 213 headliner on Saturday at the UFC Apex in
Las Vegas.
Kattar enters the cage having lost twice in three appearances. He
last fought at UFC on ESPN 37, where he wound up on the wrong side
of a contentious split decision against
Team Alpha Male’s
Josh Emmett
on June 18. Allen, meanwhile, finds himself on a career-best
11-fight winning streak. The
Tristar Gym product last competed on March 19, when he disposed
of
Dan
Hooker with punches and elbows in the first round of their UFC
Fight Night 204 pairing.
As Kattar and Allen move ever closer to their forthcoming
confrontation, a look at some of the numbers that have accompanied
them to this point:
34: Years of age for Kattar, who was born in Methuen,
Massachusetts, on March 26, 1988.
11: Kattar wins by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for
48% of his career total (23). His list of UFC victims:
Jeremy
Stephens,
Ricardo
Lamas,
Chris
Fishgold and
Shane
Burgos. Kattar owns two other wins by submission (9%) and 10
more by decision (43%).
891: Significant strikes landed by Kattar as a UFC featherweight,
placing him fifth on the promotion’s active list at 145 pounds.
Only
Max
Holloway (2,670),
Cub Swanson
(1,319),
Alexander
Volkanovski (1,254) and
Darren
Elkins (1,070) have connected with more.
7: Organizations for which Kattar has plied his mixed martial arts
trade. In addition to his 7-4 mark in the UFC, he has gone 9-0 in
Combat Zone, 3-0 in
CES MMA, 2-0 in World Championship Fighting, 1-1 in the Xtreme
Championship Fight League, 1-0 in American Steel Cagefighting and
0-1
EliteXC.
.721: Cumulative winning percentage between the six
opponents—Emmett, Holloway,
Zabit
Magomedsharipov,
Renato
Carneiro,
Don
Carlo-Clauss and
James
Jones—who have defeated Kattar. They boast a combined record of
101-38-1.
28: Years of age for Allen, who was born on Jan. 22, 1994 in
Ipswich, England.
4: Allen victories by submission, accounting for 22% of his career
total (18). His methods of choice: two guillotine chokes, one
rear-naked choke and one triangle choke. Allen holds six other
victories by knockout or technical knockout (33%) and eight more by
decision (45%).
37: Seconds needed for Allen to put away
Tobias
Huber with punches at a Cage Warriors Fighting Championship
event on April 18, 2014. More than eight years later, it remains
his fastest finish to date.
45: Rounds started by Allen as a professional mixed martial artist.
He has gone the distance on nine different occasions and carries an
8-1 record in those bouts.
180: Combined wins between the nine opponents—Hooker,
Sodiq
Yusuff,
Nik Lentz,
Gilbert
Melendez,
Jordan
Rinaldi,
Mads
Burnell,
Makwan
Amirkhani,
Yaotzin
Meza and
Alan
Omer—Allen has beaten since he joined the UFC roster in 2015.
They sport a cumulative .714 winning percentage at 180-70-2.