Max
Holloway
has never shied away from an opportunity to show a
young lion its place in the
Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight division.
The Hawaiian will confront the surging and once-beaten
Arnold
Allen in the
UFC on ESPN 44 headliner this Saturday at the T-Mobile Center
in Kansas City, Missouri. Holloway has won two of his past three
bouts. However, he finds himself on the rebound following his
unanimous decision loss to reigning featherweight champion
Alexander
Volkanovski at UFC 276 on July 2. Allen, meanwhile, enters the
cage on the strength of a 12-fight winning streak. He last appeared
at UFC Fight Night 213, where he was awarded a second-round
technical knockout due to a knee injury suffered by
Calvin
Kattar on Oct. 29.
As Holloway and Allen move ever closer to their looming battle at
145 pounds, a look at some of the numbers that have accompanied
them to this point:
31: Years of age for Holloway, who was born in Honolulu on Dec. 4,
1991.
2: Holloway wins by submission, accounting for 9% of his career
total (23). Both resulted from guillotine chokes. Holloway holds 10
other wins by knockout or technical knockout (43%) and 11 more by
decision (48%).
85: Rounds completed by Holloway as a professional mixed martial
artist. He has gone the distance on 17 different occasions and
carries an 11-6 record in those bouts.
8: Knockdowns landed by Holloway as a UFC featherweight, tying him
with
Chad Mendes
for fifth on the promotion’s all-time list at 145 pounds. Only
Jeremy
Stephens (11),
Josh Emmett
(11) and
Cub Swanson
(nine) have been credited with more.
392: Combined victories between the 18 opponents—Swanson, Stephens,
Jose
Aldo (twice),
Yair
Rodriguez,
Calvin
Kattar,
Frankie
Edgar,
Brian
Ortega,
Anthony
Pettis,
Ricardo
Lamas,
Charles
Oliveira,
Cole Miller,
Akira
Corassani,
Clay
Collard,
Andre Fili,
Will
Chope,
Leonard
Garcia,
Justin
Lawrence and
Pat
Schilling—Holloway has beaten since joining the UFC roster.
They boast a cumulative .693 winning percentage at 392-172-2.
29: Years of age for Allen, who was born on Jan. 22, 1994 in
Ipswich, England.
4: Allen victories by submission, accounting for 21% of his career
total (19). His methods of choice: two guillotine chokes, one
rear-naked choke and one triangle choke. Allen owns seven other
victories by knockout or technical knockout (37%) and eight more by
decision (42%).
37: Seconds needed for Allen to put away
Tobias
Huber with punches at a
Cage Warriors Fighting Championship show on April 18, 2014.
Nearly nine years later, it remains his fastest finish to date.
11: Consecutive calendar years in which Allen has fought at least
once. He went 2-0 in 2012, 4-0 in 2013, 3-1 in 2014, 1-0 in 2015,
1-0 in 2016, 1-0 in 2017, 1-0 in 2018, 2-0 in 2019, 1-0 in 2020,
1-0 in 2021 and 2-0 in 2022.
.722: Cumulative winning percentage between the 10
opponents—Kattar,
Dan Hooker,
Sodiq Yuseff,
Nik Lentz,
Gilbert
Melendez,
Jordan
Rinaldi,
Mads
Burnell,
Makwan
Amirkhani,
Yaotzin
Meza and
Alan
Omer—Allen has defeated since he linked arms with the UFC. They
sport a combined record of 204-78-2.