Chan Sung Jung has been here before.
“The Korean Zombie” will get another crack at the Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight crown—seven-plus years after he failed in his first attempt against the great Jose Aldo—when he butts heads with incumbent titleholder Alexander Volkanovski in the UFC 273 headliner on Saturday at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. Jung has rattled off three victories across his past four outings. He last competed at UFC on ESPN 25, where he laid claim to a five-round unanimous decision over Dan Ige in their June 19 main event. Volkanovski, meanwhile, enters the cage on the strength of an incredible 20-fight winning streak. He last fought on Sept. 25, when he was awarded a unanimous verdict over Brian Ortega at UFC 266.
As Volkanovski and Jung make final adjustments ahead of their forthcoming encounter at 145 pounds, a look at some of the numbers that have accompanied them to this point:
33: Years of age for Volkanovski, who was born on Sept. 29, 1988 in Warilla, Australia.
11: Volkanovski wins by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for 48% of his career total (23). His list of UFC victims: Chad Mendes, Jeremy Kennedy and Yasuke Kasuya. Volkanovski owns three other wins by submission and nine more by decision.
917: Significant strikes landed by Volkanovski as a UFC featherweight, placing him fifth on the promotion’s all-time list at 145 pounds. Only Max Holloway (2,543), Cub Swanson (1,319), Shane Burgos (998) and Darren Elkins (995) have connected with more.
47: Rounds completed by Volkanovski as a professional mixed martial artist. He has gone the distance on nine different occasions and carries a perfect 9-0 record in those bouts.
1: Loss on the Volkanovski resume. He succumbed to a third-round head kick and follow-up punches from Corey Nelson at Australian Fighting Championship 5 on May 10, 2013—more than 3,200 days ago.
35: Years of age for Jung, who was born in Pohang, South Korea, on March 17, 1987.
8: Jung victories by submission, accounting for 47% of his career total (17). His methods of choice: two armbars, two rear-naked chokes, two triangle chokes, one brabo choke and one twister. Jung holds six other victories by knockout or technical knockout and three more by decision.
410,000: Dollars in post-fight bonuses banked by Jung across his 10 appearances in the UFC. He has been awarded “Knockout of the Night” once, “Submission of the Night” twice, “Fight of the Night” twice and “Performance of the Night” three times.
3: Sub-minute finishes on the Jung ledger, with two of them having taken place inside the Octagon. He buried Mark Hominick with punches in seven seconds at UFC 140 on Dec. 10, 2011 and wiped out Renato Carneiro with punches in 58 seconds at UFC Fight Night 154 on June 22, 2019.
.674: Cumulative winning percentage between the six men—Ortega, Aldo, Yair Rodriguez, George Roop, Leonard Garcia and Masenori Kanehara—who have beaten Jung. They boast a combined record of 86-21-7.
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