Max
Holloway
never shies away from a challenge, no matter how
dangerous it may appear.
The former
Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight titleholder will
lock horns with
Chan Sung
Jung in the
UFC Fight Night 225 headliner on Saturday at Singapore Indoor
Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. Holloway has rattled off three wins
over his past four appearances. He last fought on April 15, when he
took a decision from
Arnold
Allen in their five-round UFC on ESPN 44 confrontation. Jung,
meanwhile, has lost twice in his last three outings. He has not
competed since UFC 273, where he succumbed to punches from reigning
featherweight champion
Alexander
Volkanovski in the fourth round of their April 9, 2022
pairing.
As Holloway and Jung move ever close to their forthcoming battle in
Southeast Asia, 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.
10: Holloway victories by knockout or technical knockout,
accounting for 42% of his career total (24). His list of UFC
victims:
Jose Aldo
(twice),
Brian
Ortega,
Anthony
Pettis,
Charles
Oliveira,
Akira
Corassani,
Clay
Collard,
Will Chope
and
Justin
Lawrence. Holloway holds two other victories by submission (8%)
and 12 more by decision (50%).
3,122: Significant strikes landed by Holloway as a member of the
UFC roster, placing him first on the promotion’s all-time list. He
ranks ahead of
Angela Hill
(1,820),
Frankie
Edgar (1,801),
Rafael dos
Anjos (1,782) and
Joanna
Jedrzejczyk (1,754).
102: Rounds started by Holloway as a professional mixed martial
artist. He has gone the distance on 18 different occasions and
carries a 12-6 record in those bouts.
.790: Cumulative winning percentage between the four
opponents—Volkanovski (three times),
Dustin
Poirier (twice),
Conor
McGregor and
Dennis
Bermudez—who have beaten Holloway. They sport a combined record
of 94-25.
36: Years of age for Jung, who was born on March 17, 1987 in
Pohang, South Korea.
8: Jung wins by submission, accounting for 47% of his career total
(17). His methods of choice: two armbars, two rear-naked chokes,
two triangle chokes, one twister and one brabo choke. Jung owns six
other wins by knockout or technical knockout (35%) and three more
by decision (18%).
335,000: Dollars in post-fight bonuses banked by Jung across his 11
appearances in the UFC. He has been awarded “Performance of the
Night” on three occasions, “Fight of the Night” twice, “Submission
of the Night” twice and “Knockout of the Night” once.
3: Sub-minute finishes on the Jung resume. He punched out
Fanjin Son in
17 seconds at Deep 39 Impact on Dec. 10, 2008, cut down
Mark
Hominick with punches in seven seconds at UFC 140 on Dec. 10,
2011 and put away
Renato
Carneiro with punches in 58 seconds at UFC Fight Night 154 on
June 22, 2019.
148: Combined victories between the seven opponents—Volkanovski,
Ortega, Aldo,
Yair
Rodriguez,
George Roop,
Leonard
Garcia and Masenori Kanehara—who have defeated Jung. They boast
a cumulative .721 winning percentage at 148-55-7.