By The Numbers: UFC 295

Just seven bouts into his Ultimate Fighting Championship tenure, Alex Pereira can already call himself a two-division champion.

“Poatan” claimed the vacant light heavyweight strap with a second-round knockout of Jiri Prochazka in the UFC 295 headliner at Madison Square Garden in New York on Saturday night. As a result, Pereira becomes the ninth fighter in the Las Vegas-based promotion to hold two belts after having claimed middleweight gold at the same venue last November.

Here is a by-the-numbers look at UFC 295, with statistics courtesy of UFCStats.com.

9: UFC two-division champions. Pereira joins a group that includes Jon Jones, Henry Cejudo, Amanda Nunes, Daniel Cormier, Georges St. Pierre, Conor McGregor, B.J. Penn and Randy Couture.

38: Significant strikes landed by Pereira. Prochazka, meanwhile, landed 30 in defeat. Both fighters landed 11 significant strikes in Round 1, while Pereira outlanded his foe 27 to 19 in Round 2.

12: Significant leg strikes for Pereira, who hindered Prochazka’s movement in a short period of time. The Czech Republic native, meanwhile, landed five significant leg strikes.

2:45: Total control time for Prochazka, who landed one of three takedown attempts against Prochazka.

3-0: Record for Pereira at Madison Square Garden. In addition to his win over Prochazka, “Poatan” has also bested Israel Adesanya and Andreas Michailidis at the revered venue.

3: UFC champions from the United Kingdom. With his first-round knockout of Sergei Pavlovich, Tom Aspinall joined Michael Bisping and Leon Edwards as the only fighters from the region to capture promotional gold.

7: Finishes since 2020 for Aspinall, the second most in the UFC during that period behind Kevin Holland (eight).

2:10: Average fight time for Aspinall, currently the shortest in UFC history of anyone with at least five bouts. The man he defeated, Pavlovich, ranks second with an average fight time of 2:13. Aspinall vanquished his Russian foe in just 69 seconds in the evening’s co-main event.

$12,423,563: Announced gate for UFC 295, making it the second largest of any UFC card held at Madison Square Garden. UFC 205, headlined by Conor McGregor vs. Eddie Alvarez, holds the top spot with a $17.7 million gate.

16: UFC victories for Jessica Andrade, tying her with the retired Amanda Nunes for the most among women in promotion history. “Bate Estaca” snapped a three-bout skid with a second-round technical knockout victory against Mackenzie Dern in a featured strawweight bout.

9: Finishes for Andrade, second-most among women in UFC history behind Nunes (10).

4: Knockdowns landed by Andrade against Dern, making the Brazilian the first woman to land that many knockdowns in a UFC bout. The former strawweight queen floored her opponent once in Round 1 and three times in Round 2 before the bout was halted.

53: Significant strikes landed by Andrade. Despite the disparity in knockdowns, the Brazilian only held a four-strike advantage against Dern. Andrade outlanded her opponent 27 to 24 in Round 1 and 26 to 25 in Round 2.

5: Consecutive victories in UFC competition for Benoit St. Denis, who scored a first-round TKO of Matt Frevola in their lightweight matchup on Saturday. That’s the second-longest active winning streak in the division behind only reigning champion Islam Makhachev (12). St. Denis’ five consecutive finishes also ties him with Shavkat Rakhmonov for the longest finishing streak in the promotion.

21: Finishes among 23 professional triumphs for Diego Lopes, who has stopped both of his UFC opponents inside of a round. This includes Pat Sabatini, who the Brazilian defeated via knockout 90 seconds into their UFC 295 showdown.

3:34: Control time in Round 3 for Steve Erceg in his unanimous decision triumph against Alessandro Costa at flyweight. With their fight tied at one round apiece, “Astroboy” relied on his grappling to clinch victory in a hard-fought affair.

4: Wins in 2023 for Lupita Godinez, making her the first woman in UFC history to win that many fights in a calendar year. Godinez’s year included triumphs over Cynthia Calvillo on April 8, Emily Ducote on May 20, Elise Reed on Sept. 16 and Tabatha Ricci on Nov. 11.

6: Consecutive victories at 115 pounds for Godinez, tying her with Tatiana Suarez for the longest active winning streak in the division. Note: Her loss to Angela Hill at UFC on ESPN 41 occurred at a 120-pound catchweight.

16: Consecutive professional triumphs for Mateusz Rebecki, who dispatched short-notice foe Roosevelt Roberts with an armbar 3:08 into Round 1 of their clash. Three of those victories have come inside the Octagon for the 31-year-old Poland native.

234: Combined significant strikes landed by Viacheslav Borschev (143) and Nazim Sadykhov (91) in their lightweight encounter. Sadykhov landed the bout’s only knockdown in the second stanza, which prompted two judges to give him a 10-8 round. As a result, the bout was a majority draw.

2,681: Days since Jared Gordon’s last first-round finish, a head-kick knockout of Anthony Morrison at Cage Fury Fighting Championships on July 9, 2016. On Saturday, “Flash” made short work of Mark O. Madsen, ending their lightweight scrap via TKO at the 4:42 mark of Round 1.

111: Significant strikes landed by John Castaneda in a three-round verdict against Kyung Ho Kang in a 138-pound catchweight fight. “Sexi Mexi” mixed up his targets well, landing 47 to the head, 30 to the body and 34 to the legs.

156: Significant strikes landed by Joshua Van in his unanimous decision victory over Kevin Borjas. That’s the second-most ever in a three-round flyweight fight in the promotion behind only the 189 landed by Jeff Molina against Qileng Aori at UFC 261. By comparison, Borjas landed 75 significant strikes in defeat.