By The Numbers: Max Holloway vs. Arnold Allen

Max Holloway has never shied away from an opportunity to show a young lion its place in the Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight division.

The Hawaiian will confront the surging and once-beaten Arnold Allen in the UFC on ESPN 44 headliner this Saturday at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Holloway has won two of his past three bouts. However, he finds himself on the rebound following his unanimous decision loss to reigning featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 276 on July 2. Allen, meanwhile, enters the cage on the strength of a 12-fight winning streak. He last appeared at UFC Fight Night 213, where he was awarded a second-round technical knockout due to a knee injury suffered by Calvin Kattar on Oct. 29.

As Holloway and Allen move ever closer to their looming battle at 145 pounds, a look at some of the numbers that have accompanied them to this point:

31: Years of age for Holloway, who was born in Honolulu on Dec. 4, 1991.

2: Holloway wins by submission, accounting for 9% of his career total (23). Both resulted from guillotine chokes. Holloway holds 10 other wins by knockout or technical knockout (43%) and 11 more by decision (48%).

85: Rounds completed by Holloway as a professional mixed martial artist. He has gone the distance on 17 different occasions and carries an 11-6 record in those bouts.

8: Knockdowns landed by Holloway as a UFC featherweight, tying him with Chad Mendes for fifth on the promotion’s all-time list at 145 pounds. Only Jeremy Stephens (11), Josh Emmett (11) and Cub Swanson (nine) have been credited with more.

392: Combined victories between the 18 opponents—Swanson, Stephens, Jose Aldo (twice), Yair Rodriguez, Calvin Kattar, Frankie Edgar, Brian Ortega, Anthony Pettis, Ricardo Lamas, Charles Oliveira, Cole Miller, Akira Corassani, Clay Collard, Andre Fili, Will Chope, Leonard Garcia, Justin Lawrence and Pat Schilling—Holloway has beaten since joining the UFC roster. They boast a cumulative .693 winning percentage at 392-172-2.

29: Years of age for Allen, who was born on Jan. 22, 1994 in Ipswich, England.

4: Allen victories by submission, accounting for 21% of his career total (19). His methods of choice: two guillotine chokes, one rear-naked choke and one triangle choke. Allen owns seven other victories by knockout or technical knockout (37%) and eight more by decision (42%).

37: Seconds needed for Allen to put away Tobias Huber with punches at a Cage Warriors Fighting Championship show on April 18, 2014. Nearly nine years later, it remains his fastest finish to date.

11: Consecutive calendar years in which Allen has fought at least once. He went 2-0 in 2012, 4-0 in 2013, 3-1 in 2014, 1-0 in 2015, 1-0 in 2016, 1-0 in 2017, 1-0 in 2018, 2-0 in 2019, 1-0 in 2020, 1-0 in 2021 and 2-0 in 2022.

.722: Cumulative winning percentage between the 10 opponents—Kattar, Dan Hooker, Sodiq Yuseff, Nik Lentz, Gilbert Melendez, Jordan Rinaldi, Mads Burnell, Makwan Amirkhani, Yaotzin Meza and Alan Omer—Allen has defeated since he linked arms with the UFC. They sport a combined record of 204-78-2.