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TOTAL NUMBER OF UFC FIGHTS: 6,881
TOTAL NUMBER OF UFC EVENTS: 626
The Ultimate Fighting Championship made it to the finish line with a tattered and torn lineup that nonetheless provided wild action from start to finish. Eager to put on a show, the lion’s share of fights ended violently, and submissions were not few and far between. UFC Fight Night 214 featured an exceptionally unusual maneuver at an odd angle, a brutal body shot knockout and the new winningest welterweight in the organization.
Young Almost Made It Five: Four fighters missed weight ahead of their scheduled contests at UFC Fight Night 214. This ties a record with a few past UFC cards, most recently occurring at UFC Fight Night 121 in 2017, where four bouts proceeded with competitors that had come in heavy.
Make Weight: Three of those heavy competitors – Benito Lopez, Carlos Candelario and Ramona Pascual – lost their fights by stoppage. So far in 2022, UFC fighters that miss weight post a paltry winning percentage of .273.
Making Lemosade: Amanda Lemos laid waste to Marina Rodriguez early into the third round of their headliner. The strawweight nicknamed “Amandinha” has recorded five stoppages since joining the roster in 2017, tying her with the 115-pound record for finishes held by Jessica Andrade and Rose Namajunas.
Precise Power: The knockout was Lemos’ third as a UFC fighter, as she previously put Livinha Souza and Montserrat Ruiz out in 2021. She is now tied with Andrade for the most knockouts of any strawweight.
No Record Lasts Forever: Tapping out Daniel Rodriguez in the third round of their 170-pound affair, Neil Magny earned his 20th win in the division. This passes Georges St. Pierre for the most in divisional history.
Watch Out Jim Miller: Magny is now one of 11 fighters in UFC history to ever record at least 20 wins. He is the sixth to do so competing exclusively at welterweight or higher, joining the likes of Andrei Arlovski, Demian Maia, Michael Bisping, St. Pierre and Jon Jones.
Busybody: The appearance was Magny’s 28th as a welterweight. He is now one fight shy of tying Matt Brown’s all-time record in that weight class.
Long, Long Arms: Of all the brabo chokes to ever take place inside the Octagon, Magny’s is the eighth to come after Round 2. With the stoppage coming at 3:33 of the third frame, his is the second-latest in organizational history. Only Chan Sung Jung’s fourth-round brabo choke of Dustin Poirier in the UFC on Fuel 3 headliner in 2012 came later.
Doing Neil Magny Things: By recording the tap in Round 3, Magny scored his fourth UFC finish in that particular frame. He becomes one of nine fighters to notch at least four third-round stoppages in the Octagon, while Max Holloway, Randy Couture and Yoel Romero jointly hold that record with six apiece.
Bad Night for Rodriguez: Both M. Rodriguez and D. Rodriguez entered into their 20th pro fights in the main and co-main events, respectively. Both fighters lost by stoppage, thereby suffering their first finish defeats in their careers.
Maybe Don’t Celebrate That One: In 67 seconds, Nuerdanbieke Shayilan lumped up an injured Darrick Minner with elbows to record the stoppage. “Wolverine” has recorded 26 career finishes in the first round, which equaled the highest win totals of any other fighter on the card: Magny and Minner both celebrated 26 victories coming into this event.
No Reasonable Explanation: On Friday after weigh-ins, Shayilan saw betting odds around -220 in his favor. On fight day – and more specifically, within hours of his bout, after the card had already started – Shayilan’s betting line swung to a substantial -370. This shocking shift of lines was accompanied by the under of 2.5 rounds also spiking from roughly -140 to -190 in that same time frame.
The Glass Cannon Shattered: Minner entered into his 40th professional MMA contest against Shayilan on Saturday, and he lost in the opening stanza. A whole 67.5% of his fights have ended in the first round, win or lose.
Grant Me a Top Opponent: After missing weight by 1.5 pounds, ex-featherweight Grant Dawson tapped out Mark O. Madsen at lightweight in Round 3. The American Top Team trailed fighter has recorded 89% of his pro wins by stoppage, with finishes in five of his last six victories.
Playing with His Food: Mario Bautista snared Benito Lopez with a rare reverse triangle armbar at the end of the first round. His finish is just the second recorded in the UFC in this fashion, as Erick Silva first performed one on Jason High at UFC on Fuel 10 in 2013.
Deep Freyed: Polyana Viana needed just 47 seconds to deck Jinh Yu Frey and maintain her perfect 100% finish rate. All but one of her pro wins have come in the first round, and this was the first recorded in under a minute.
Can’t Hold a Candle to Jake: Bouncing back from his first career defeat, Jake Hadley forced Carlos Candelario to surrender via triangle choke. The Brit known as “White Kong” has secured 78% of his career wins inside the distance, and all of his past submissions had come by rear-naked choke.
Flying Might Be Stretching It: Tamires Vidal crushed Ramona Pascual with a flying knee to the body to earn her first knockout as a professional. “Tratora” scored the first recorded flying knee body shot knockout in company history, and she is one of a small number of women to finish foes with knee strikes to the body. Ronda Rousey, Germaine de Randamie and Julia Avila had all done this in their past bantamweight battles.
Never Say Never Again: Coming into UFC Fight Night 214, Candelario had never been finished (10 fights), Nathan Maness had never been submitted (16 fights) and Madsen had never been defeated (12 fights).
Of My Virtue I Am Justly Proud: For the whole of his UFC tenure, Dawson has walked out to the metal cover of “Hellfire” off Disney’s “Hunchback of Notre Dame” soundtrack, as performed by Jonathan Young. The song has never done him wrong, as Dawson has still yet to lose as a UFC fighter in eight outings.
All Fired Up, I’m Gonna Go Till I Drop: Ahead of her pairing with Miranda Maverick, Shanna Young elected to walk out to “I Don’t Wanna Stop” by Ozzy Osbourne. When excluding Black Sabbath, fighters walking out to Ozzy Osbourne songs post a low win percentage of just .307.
Do What You Want: Bautista became the first recorded fighter on promotional history to walk out to a song from KC and the Sunshine Band at UFC Fight Night 214. He picked “I’m Your Boogie Man,” and put Lopez away in the first round.