Fight Facts: UFC Fight Night 213 ‘Kattar vs. Allen’

Fight Facts is a breakdown of all of the interesting information and Octagon oddities on every card, with some puns, references and portmanteaus to keep things fun. These deep stat dives delve into the numbers, providing historical context and telling the stories behind those numbers.

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TOTAL NUMBER OF UFC FIGHTS: 6,870
TOTAL NUMBER OF UFC EVENTS: 625

The Ultimate Fighting Championship slinked back to the UFC Apex for a fight card with far lower stakes than the pay-per-view that preceded it. Due in part to multiple scary injuries during key pairings, many unsatisfying outcomes took place throughout the evening. UFC Fight Night 213 featured a grizzled heavyweight legend whose bill might be coming due, an anaconda choke that slithered its way to a hefty check and a reminder that the “Eminem Curse” is still going strong.

Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama: Across the 11-fight lineup, no bouts took place in any women’s division. UFC Fight Night 213 marks the first event since late 2020 – UFC on ESPN 19, which went down with just eight fights – to proceed without any female fighters stepping into the cage.

Aerobicide: The main event of UFC Fight Night 213 ended with Arnold Allen winning after Calvin Kattar succumbed to a knee injury. Kattar’s injury is the fourth to take place in a UFC headliner this year, accounting for nearly half (nine in total) of the injury TKOs in marquee UFC bouts. No prior year had seen more than one end in such a fashion.

Cockneys vs. Zombies: By winning his 10th UFC fight in a row, Allen is the 14th fighter in company history to amass such a win streak. The last fighter to hit that tally is current lightweight king Islam Makhachev, who achieved this feat in February.

Fatal Games: While there have been over a dozen competitors to build overall win streaks to 10 or more inside the Octagon, less than half that number have done so by starting their UFC tenures undefeated. Allen joins a list of elite names with this accomplishment: Royce Gracie, Anderson Silva, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Kamaru Usman and Alexander Volkanovski.

Shocker: Max Griffin joined the UFC in 2016, and he subsequently lost six of his first nine trips to the UFC cage. Since then, Griffin has turned things around to even his UFC record to .500 with seven victories opposite seven defeats. He got there by claiming split scorecards over Tim Means.

Hollow Man: “Salsa Boy” Waldo Cortes-Acosta made good on his UFC debut by beating Jared Vanderaa after three rounds. The heavyweight from Arizona by way of the Dominican Republic has competed twice in major organizations, once with Bellator MMA and now one time with the UFC – those two appearances account for two-thirds of his decision victories.

Event Horizon: In seven UFC outings, Vanderaa has won just one time. This win percentage of .143 is the lowest of any modern UFC heavyweight with over five walks to the Octagon on their ledger.

The Strangler: To pick up his first UFC win, Tresean Gore put Josh Fremd out with a guillotine choke early into Round 2. The 28-year-old nicknamed “Mr. Vicious” now celebrates an even finish rate of 75% still early into his career.

High Tension: Dropping a contentious split decision to Khalil Rountree, Dustin Jacoby suffered his first loss on the UFC roster since January 2012. At that time, only five of the other 21 fighters on the card had made their pro debuts.

Child’s Play: Roman Dolidze injured Phil Hawes’ knee with a submission attempt and then knocked him out at 4:09 of Round 1. The Georgian now posts a finish rate of 82%, with seven of his nine stoppages coming in the opening frame.

Don’t Breathe: It took Marcos Rogerio de Lima 110 seconds to tap Andrei Arlovski with a rear-naked choke. The former light heavyweight has seen 85% of his victories end inside the distance, while becoming the first man to submit the former UFC heavyweight champ in the first round.

Old: Albeit in a losing effort, Arlovski entered the UFC cage for the 39th time since his promotional debut at UFC 28 in November 2000. Jim Miller (40) is the only man to fight more times for the company than Arlovski.

The Host: South Korea’s Jun Yong Park tapped out Joseph Holmes to record his first finish inside the Octagon. It marked the first time he had submitted any opponent in over five years.

Death Machine: After 92 seconds, 29 significant strikes landed and three knockdowns, Steve Garcia had destroyed Chase Hooper. “Mean Machine” holds 77% of his wins by finish, and every one of those came via strikes.

Anaconda: Christian Rodriguez is the sixth fighter in UFC history to start off a fight card by performing an anaconda choke. While card openers typically see fewer post-fight bonus checks go to them than their main card counterparts, five of those six victors have earned “Submission of the Night” or “Performance of the Night” honors, including Rodriguez, after choking out Joshua Weems.

Never Say Never Again: Coming into UFC Fight Night 213, Kattar had never been knocked out (29 fights), Holmes (10 fights) and Hooper (14 fights) had never been finished and Fremd (12 fights) and Weems (13 fights) had never been submitted.

An American Werewolf in London: For his first UFC headliner, Allen switched his walkout music back to the song he first selected against Sodiq Yusuff in April 2021: “London Calling” by The Clash. On both outings, Allen picked up the win, making this track a recorded 5-0 across UFC history.

The Cursed: In his unsuccessful organizational debut, Carlos Mota fell short to Cody Durden on the scorecards. Ahead of his match, Mota walked out to “Till I Collapse” by Eminem featuring Nate Dogg, making him one in a long line of fighters to debut with the UFC and lose following their Eminem walkout.