Last-chance opportunity knocks for
Chan Sung
Jung.
Less than a month removed from his 35th birthday and eight-plus
years after his failed bid against the great
Jose Aldo, the
South Korean action hero will challenge
Alexander
Volkanovski for the undisputed
Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight crown in the
UFC 273 headliner on Saturday at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena
in Jacksonville, Florida. Meanwhile,
Aljamain
Sterling puts the bantamweight belt on the line, as his
title-unification rematch with interim champion
Petr Yan fills
the co-main event slot.
As UFC 273 “Volkanovski vs. Korean Zombie” approaches, a look at
some of the numbers the fighters on the card have brought with
them:
10: Consecutive calendar years in which Volkanovski has fought at
least once. He went 1-0 in 2012, 3-1 in 2013, 5-0 in 2014, 2-0 in
2015, 3-0 in 2016, 2-0 in 2017, 3-0 in 2018, 2-0 in 2019, 1-0 in
2020 and 1-0 in 2021.
18,303: Fans who witnessed Jung’s seven-second knockout of
Mark
Hominick at UFC 140 on Dec. 10, 2011 at the Air Canada Centre
in Toronto. It ranks as the third-fastest finish in Ultimate
Fighting Championship history, bested only by
Jorge
Masvidal’s five-second knockout of
Ben Askren at
UFC 239 and
Duane
Ludwig’s six-second knockout of
Jonathan
Goulet at UFC Fight Night 3.
1: Knockout loss on the Sterling resume. The Serra-Longo Fight Team
mainstay was felled by a
Marlon
Moraes knee strike at UFC Fight Night 123 four-plus years
ago.
10: Knockdowns landed by Yan as a UFC bantamweight, making him the
promotion’s all-time leader at 135 pounds.
T.J.
Dillashaw (nine),
Cody
Garbrandt (nine),
Eddie
Wineland (eight) and
Montel
Jackson (eight) round out the division’s Top 5 in the
category.
5: Countries in which
Gilbert
Burns has plied his mixed martial arts trade. The
Sanford MMA export has gone 9-2 in his native Brazil, 8-2 in
the United States, 1-0 in Canada, 1-0 in Uruguay and 1-0 in
Denmark. Burns toes the line against the undefeated
Khamzat
Chimaev in a three-round welterweight showcase.
111: Significant strikes by which Chimaev has outlanded his first
four opponents in the UFC. He has connected on 112 such strikes
while absorbing only one in return from
Jingliang
Li,
Gerald
Meerschaert,
Rhys McKee
and
John
Phillips.