The two Top 15-ranked behemoths will face off in the UFC Fight Night 189 co-headliner on Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, where their present and future successes could hang in the balance. Tybura enters the cage on the strength of four consecutive victories. He last appeared at UFC Fight Night 183, where he put away Greg Hardy with punches in the second round of their Dec. 19 battle. Harris, meanwhile, finds himself on the rebound following back-to-back losses. He last competed at UFC 254 on Oct. 24, when he succumbed to a second-round body kick and follow-up punches from former Bellator MMA champion Alexander Volkov.
As Tybura and Harris make their final preparations, a look at some of the numbers that have accompanied them to this point:
35: Years of age for Tybura, who was born on Nov. 9, 1985 in Uniejow, Poland, a small town of some 3,000 people near the geographic center on the European nation.
6: Tybura wins by submission, accounting for 29% of his career total (21). His methods of choice: four rear-naked chokes, one triangle armbar and one north-south choke. Tybura owns eight other wins by knockout or technical knockout and seven more by decision.
8: First-round finishes on the Tybura resume, including his 88-second submission of Damian Grabowski at M-1 Challenge 50 on Aug. 15, 2014. “Tybur” throttled Grabowski unconscious with a north-south choke to claim the M-1 Global heavyweight championship.
10: Countries in which Tybura has competed as a mixed martial artist. He has gone 6-2 in Russia, 6-0 in Poland, 4-1 in the United States, 2-0 in the United Arab Emirates, 1-0 in China, 1-0 in Germany, 1-0 in Singapore, 0-1 in Croatia, 0-1 in Australia and 0-1 in Canada.
29: Significant strikes by which Tybura has outlanded the opposition during his current four-fight winning streak. He has connected on 212 such strikes while eating only 183 in return.
37: Years of age for Harris, who was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 10, 1983. “Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi” was in its fourth week of release at the time.
13: Harris victories by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for 100% of his career total. His list of victims includes Alexey Oleynik, Chase Sherman, Cody East and Anthony Hamilton.
4: Sub-minute stoppage victories on the Harris resume. He buried Justin Thornton with punches 16 seconds into their Hess Extreme Fighting clash on March 15, 2011, blew away Cedric James with punches 22 seconds into their Fight Time 7 encounter on Oct. 7, 2011, laid waste to Sergey Spivak with punches 50 seconds into their UFC Fight Night 151 pairing on May 4, 2019 and brought down the aforementioned Oleynik with a knee strike and follow-up punches 12 seconds into their UFC on ESPN 4 co-main event on July 20, 2019.
9: Knockdowns landed by Harris as a member of the UFC roster, tying him with Mark Hunt, Roy Nelson and Matt Mitrione for fifth on the promotion’s all-time heavyweight list. Only Junior dos Santos (14), Andrei Arlovski (10), Cain Velasquez (10) and Alistair Overeem (10) have registered more.
227: Combined wins between the nine men—Volkov, Overeem, Mark Godbeer, Fabricio Werdum, Shamil Abdurakhimov, Soa Palelei, Nikita Krylov, Jared Rosholt and Chris Barnett—who have defeated Harris. They sport a .752 (227-74-1) cumulative winning percentage.