By The Numbers: UFC on ESPN 17 Pre-Fight Edition

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Nothing stirs the pot in mixed martial arts quite like common pursuits.

Thiago Santos and Glover Teixeira—two men who have already tried and failed to capture the undisputed Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight title—will face one another in the UFC on ESPN 17 main event this Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The winner figures to have a viable claim as the No. 1 contender at 205 pounds, a weight class now ruled by newly minted champion Jan Blachowicz.

Santos finds himself on the rebound, though he has not competed since he wound up on the wrong side of a contentious split decision loss to Jon Jones at UFC 239 on July 6, 2019. Reconstructive knee surgery and a positive test for COVID-19 have kept him on the shelf for more than 16 months. Teixeira, meanwhile, enters the cage in the midst of a late-career renaissance. The venerable Brazilian has pieced together a four-fight winning streak, his run highlighted by a brutal beatdown of Anthony Smith at UFC Fight Night 171 in May.

As UFC on ESPN 17 approaches, a look at some of the numbers the fighters on the card have generated to this point:

8: First-round finishes to Santos’ credit. They include two sub-minute stoppage victories inside the Octagon: a 53-second technical knockout of Ronny Markes at UFC Fight Night 38 in 2014 and a 29-second knockout of Steve Bosse in 2015.

20: Consecutive victories for Teixeira between May 5, 2006 and Sept. 4, 2013. They account for 65% of his career win total (31).

41: Years of age for Andrei Arlovski. The oldest fighter on the card, he was born in Babruysk, Belarus, on Feb. 4, 1979.

13: Decisions on the Tanner Boser resume. The two-time Unified MMA champion has gone 7-5-1 in those bouts.

2,402: Days since Raoni Barcelos suffered his only professional setback—a rear-naked choke submission loss to Mark Dickman on April 11, 2014. The former Resurrection Fighting Alliance titleholder has since rattled off eight straight wins, four of them in the UFC.

25: Seconds needed for Khalid Taha to put away Boston Salmon with punches at UFC 236 in 2019. It ranks as the fifth-fastest finish in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s bantamweight division.

2: Submission victories on the Ian Heinisch ledger, both by scarf hold armlock. He dismissed Jeremy Spelts with the maneuver at a Sparta Combat League show in April 2016 and did the same to Lucas Rota under the Legacy Fighting Alliance banner a year later.

24: Years of age for Brendan Allen. The youngest fighter on the card, he was born on Dec. 28, 1995 in Beaufort, South Carolina.

4: Career losses for Claudia Gadelha, all by decision. Joanna Jedrzejczyk (twice), Jessica Andrade and Nina Ansaroff were the perpetrators.

213: Significant strikes by which Xiaonan Yan has outlanded her first five opponents in the UFC. She has compiled a 5-0 record since she joined the roster a little less than three years ago, stringing together wins over Kailin Curran, Viviane Pereira, Syuri Kondo, Angela Hill and Karolina Kowalkiewicz.

.773: Cumulative winning percentage between the 22 fighters booked to compete at UFC on ESPN 17. They own a combined record of 340-98-2.