By The Numbers: Ciryl Gane vs. Tai Tuivasa

Tai Tuivasa can now see a clear path to contention in the always-volatile Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight division.

“Bam Bam” will lock horns with Ciryl Gane in the UFC Fight Night 209 main event on Saturday at Accor Arena in Paris, as the organization touches down in France for the first time. Tuivasa enters the Octagon on the strength of a five-fight winning streak. He last appeared at UFC 271, where he brought down Derrick Lewis with an elbow strike in the second round of their Feb. 12 pairing. Gane, meanwhile, finds himself on the rebound for the first time in his 11-fight career. He last competed on Jan. 22, when he lost a five-round unanimous decision to Francis Ngannou in a failed bid to capture the undisputed heavyweight crown at UFC 270.

As Tuivasa and Gane make final preparations ahead of their high-stakes showdown, a look at some of the numbers that have accompanied them to this point:

32: Years of age for Gane, who was born on May 6, 1990 in La Roche-sur-Yon, France.

3: Gane wins by submission, accounting for 30% of his career total (10). His methods of choice: one guillotine choke, one arm-triangle choke and one heel hook. Gane holds four other wins by knockout or technical knockout (40%) and three more by decision (30%).

162: Seconds needed for Gane to put away Bobby Sullivan with a guillotine choke at a TKO Major League MMA show in his August 2018 professional debut. More than four years later, it remains his fastest finish to date.

5: Countries in which Gane has suited up as a mixed martial artist. He has gone 4-1 in the United States, 3-0 in Canada, 1-0 in Uruguay, 1-0 in Singapore and 1-0 in South Korea.

133: Combined victories between the seven opponents—Lewis, Alexander Volkov, Jairzinho Rozenstruik, Junior dos Santos, Tanner Boser, Don’Tale Mayes and Raphael Pessoa—Gane has defeated as a member of the UFC roster. They sport a .715 cumulative winning percentage (133-52-1).

29: Years of age for Tuivasa, who was born in Sydney on March 16, 1993.

13: Tuivasa victories by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for 93% of his career total (14). His list of UFC victims: Lewis, Augusto Sakai, Greg Hardy, Harry Hunsucker, Stefan Struve, Cyril Asker and Rashad Coulter. Tuivasa owns one other victory by decision, having outpointed Andrei Arlovski across three rounds at UFC 225 in 2018.

1.47: Knockdowns landed per 15 minutes of UFC competition for Tuivasa, placing him eighth on the promotion’s all-time list for heavyweights. Only Sergei Pavlovich (4.76), Chris Daukaus (4.02), Todd Duffee (2.91), Shane Carwin (2.03), Tom Aspinall (2.0), Pat Barry (1.74) and Matt Mitrione (1.53) have scored them at a higher rate.

6: Sub-minute finishes on the Tuivasa resume, highlighted by his 49-second rout of the aforementioned Hunsucker at UFC on ESPN 21 in March 2021.

.764: Cumulative winning percentage between the three opponents—dos Santos, Sergey Spivak and Blagoy Ivanov—who have beaten Tuivasa. They boast a combined record of 55-17.