By the Numbers: UFC Fight Night 235

After a frustrating 2023 campaign, Nassourdine Imavov is off to a much better start this year.

Imavov came out firing in Round 1, then held on for a sometimes ugly majority decision triumph against Roman Dolidze in the UFC Fight Night 235 headliner at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday night. Though it wasn’t always pretty, the MMA Factory product will certainly take ugly on the heels of a winless 2023.

Here is a by-the-numbers look at UFC Fight Night 235, with statistics courtesy of UFCStats.com.

112: Significant strikes landed by Imavov, including the fight’s lone knockdown in Round 1. Dolidze, meanwhile, landed 34. Imavov outlanded his foe 51 to 8 in Round 1, 9 to 5 in Round 2, 20 to 8 in Round 3, 14 to 6 in Round 4 and 18 to 7 in Round 5.

10:11: Control time for Dolidze, who forced numerous clinches but failed on all four of his takedown attempts. Imavov logged 3:52 of control time in victory.

32: Significant ground strikes for Imavov. Dolidze landed 0.

.590: Significant striking accuracy for Imavov, who landed 112 of 189 attempts. Dolidze was far less efficient, landing 34 of 152 significant strikes — a 22% success rate.

10:33: Control time for Renato Carneiro in a unanimous decision triumph over Drew Dober in the lightweight co-main event. “Moicano” was also successful on three of six takedowns against his heavy-handed opponent. Dober, meanwhile, logged 1:02 of control time and landed one of two takedowns.

142: Total strikes landed by Carneiro. By comparison, Dober landed 36.

1,687: Days since Randy Brown’s last KO/TKO victory, a third-round stoppage of Bryan Barberena at UFC Fight Night 154 on June 22, 2019. “Rude Boy” scored a first-round KO of Muslim Salikhov in their welterweight showdown on Saturday night.

5: Consecutive victories for Natalia Silva, tying her with Maycee Barber for the third-longest active winning streak in the UFC women’s flyweight division. Erin Blanchfield and Manon Fiorot are tied for first with six consecutive triumphs. Silva captured a unanimous decision triumph over Viviane Araujo on Saturday night.

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6:01: Total control time for Araujo. She did her best work in the openzing stanza, when she controlled Silva for 3:31 of the frame. However, Araujo was outlanded 38 to 26 in significant strikes and was successful on only one of nine takedowns in the bout.

0:11: Time into Round 1 that the middleweight clash between Aliaskhab Khizrieva and Makhmud Muradov was waved off due to an accidental eye poke, tying it for the shortest no contest in UFC history. At UFC Fight Night 80 in December 2015, a matchup pitting Antonio Carlos Jr. against Kevin Casey was also ruled a no contest after 11 seconds due to an eye poke.

2: Knockdowns landed in 4:47 of Octagon time for Charles Radtke in a victory over Gilbert Urbina in a main card welterweight bout. The second of those set the stage for the fight’s finishing sequence, which also included a few follow-up strikes on the canvas. Radtke also landed 30 significant strikes — only five less than he landed in a three-round verdict over Mike Mathetha in his Octagon debut at UFC 293.

1: Submission victory in 20 professional appearances for Molly McCann. The 33-year-old Liverpool native secured her first such triumph when she tapped Diana Belbita at the 4:59 mark of Round 1 in their strawweight clash. The bout also marked the 115-pound debut for “Meatball.”

39: Combined significant strike advantage for Charles Johnson in Rounds 2 and 3 of his unanimous decision triumph over Azat Maksum at flyweight. “InnerG” survived a first round knockdown and rallied down the stretch to hand Maksum his first defeat in 18 professional outings.

.540: Significant striking accuracy for Johnson, who landed 76 of 140 attempts. Maksum, meanwhile, was successful on 38 of 163 significant strikes — a 23% clip.

4:52: Time of Luana Carolina’s third-round technical knockout victory against Julija Stoliarenko in their preliminary bout. That would have been the latest finish in UFC women’s flyweight history, but Carolina missed weight by three pounds on Friday.

50: Significant strikes by which Carolina outlanded Stoliarenko. This included a whopping 29-to-0 advantage in the decisive third round. The Brazilian also outlanded her foe 138-21 in total strikes.

3: Submission attempts for Stoliarenko — all in the final frame. Those efforts appeared to tire the Lithuanian fighter, who succumbed to a barrage of ground-and-pound shortly after her final attempt failed.

7: Unofficial media scorecards, of the 13 tracked by MMADecisions.com, that saw the lightweight fight between Marquel Mederos and Landon Quinones in favor of Quinones. The cageside judges saw things differently, as Adalaide Byrd, Junichirio Kamijo and Ron McCarthy all submitted 29-28 tallies for Mederos.