By The Numbers: Rob Font vs. Adrian Yanez

Rob Font has grown accustomed to difficult assignments. Life in the Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight division requires as much.

The former CES MMA champion will attempt to right his ship at the expense of Adrian Yanez in a three-round UFC 287 showcase on Saturday at Miami-Dade Arena in Miami. Font enters the cage on the heels of back-to-back losses. He last competed at UFC on ESPN 35, where he dropped a unanimous decision to Marlon Vera in their April 30 main event. Yanez, meanwhile, finds himself on a nine-fight winning streak that includes seven finishes. He last fought on June 18, when he buried Tony Kelley with punches in the first round of their UFC on ESPN 37 pairing.

As Font and Yanez move ever closer to their looming battle at 135 pounds, a look at some of the numbers that have accompanied them to this point:

35: Years of age for Font, who was born on June 25, 1987, in Leominster, Massachusetts.

4: Font wins by submission, accounting for 21% of his career total (19). His methods of choice: two guillotine chokes, one rear-naked choke and one brabo choke. Font holds eight other wins by knockout or technical knockout (42%) and seven more by decision (37%).

1,217: Total strikes landed by Font as a UFC bantamweight, placing him fifth on the promotion’s all-time list at 135 pounds. Only Merab Dvalishvili (1,569), T.J. Dillashaw (1,522), Aljamain Sterling (1,460) and Petr Yan (1,309) have connected with more.

47: Rounds completed by Font as a professional mixed martial artist. He has gone the distance on 12 different occasions and carries a 7-5 record in those bouts.

157: Combined victories between the six opponents—Vera, Jose Aldo, Raphael Assuncao, Pedro Munhoz, John Lineker and Desmond Green—who have beaten Font. They boast a .754 cumulative winning percentage at 157-51-1.

29: Years of age for Yanez, who was born in La Porte, Texas, on Nov. 29, 1993.

10: Yanez victories by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for 62% of his career total (16). His list of UFC victims: Kelley, Randy Costa, Gustavo Lopez and Victor Rodriguez.

39: Seconds needed for Yanez to dispose of Brady Huang with punches during Week 2 of Dana White’s Contender Series on Aug. 11, 2020. More than two years later, it remains his fastest finish to date.

250,000: Dollars in post-fight bonuses banked by Yanez across his five appearances in the UFC. He has been awarded “Performance of the Night” four times and “Fight of the Night” once.

.804: Cumulative winning percentage between the three opponents—Miles Johns, Domingo Pilarte and Levi Mowles—who have defeated Yanez. They sport a combined record of 37-9.