By The Numbers: Adam Piccolotti vs. Mansour Barnaoui

Mansour Barnaoui has spent more than 1,200 days on the sidelines, but he nevertheless managed to hold Bellator MMA’s attention and now sees his long-overdue debut on major stage looming over the horizon.

The former Road Fighting Championship, M-1 Global and British Association of Mixed Martial Arts titleholder will suit up for the first time since May 2019 when he faces Adam Piccolotti in the Bellator 287 headliner on Saturday at Allianz Cloud Arena in Milan, Italy. Barnaoui enters the cage on the strength of a seven-fight winning streak. Victories over A-Sol Kwon, Maxim Divnich, Colin Fletcher and Curt Warburton anchor his ledger. Piccolotti, meanwhile, has rattled off four wins across his past six appearances. He last competed at Bellator 274, where he took a three-round unanimous decision from Georgi Karakhanyan on Feb. 19.

As Barnaoui and Piccolotti approach their intriguing battle at 155 pounds, a look at some of the numbers that have accompanied them to this point:

34: Years of age for Piccolotti, who was born on Oct. 23, 1988 in Half Moon Bay, California.

6: Piccolotti victories by submission, accounting for 46% of his career total (13). His methods of choice: five rear-naked chokes and one neck crank. Piccolotti owns two other victories by knockout or technical knockout (15%) and five more by decision (39%).

30: Rounds completed by Piccolotti as a professional mixed martial artist. He has gone the distance on eight different occasions and carries a 5-3 record in those bouts.

3: First-round finishes on the Piccolotti resume, with two of them having unfolded under the Bellator banner. He took care of Ray Wood rear-naked choke in 3:17 at Bellator 154 on May 14, 2016 and used the same maneuver to dispatch Carrington Banks in 4:41 at Bellator 199 on May 12, 2018.

.779: Cumulative winning percentage between the four men—Sidney Outlaw, Benson Henderson, David Rickels and Goiti Yamauchi—who have defeated Piccolotti. They boast a combined record of 95-27.

30: Years of age for Barnaoui, who was born in Tunis, Tunisia, on Sept. 20, 1992.

12: Barnaoui wins by submission, accounting for 63% of his career total (19). His methods of choice: 10 rear-naked chokes and two north-south chokes. Barnaoui holds six other wins by knockout or technical knockout (32%) and one more by decision (5%).

122: Seconds needed for Barnaoui to put away Nandin-Erdene Munguntsooj with a rear-naked choke at Road Fighting Championship 44 on Nov. 11, 2017. Nearly five years later, it remains his fastest finish to date.

9: Countries in which Barnaoui has plied his mixed martial arts trade. He has gone 6-0 in France, 4-0 in South Korea, 2-2 in Russia, 2-0 in England, 2-0 in China, 1-1 in Poland, 1-0 in Switzerland, 1-0 in the United Arab Emirates and 0-1 in Canada.

102: Combined victories between the four men—Mateusz Gamrot, Ivan Buchinger, Islam Makhachev and Kevin Lee—who have beaten Barnaoui. They sport an .850 cumulative winning percentage at 102-18.