The Last 3 Successful Strawweight Challengers Have All Won In Their Home Country

[Kyojiro Kagenuma]

Anyone else notice this?

Andrade in Brazil, Zhang in China, and now Rose in the good ol USA.

Don't remember what country 217 was in off the top of my head.

 

[Sam's UFC title reign]

217 was NYC

 

[13Seconds]

And the last 4 WW champs won the title in their home countries

 

[Reign009]

Interesting stat.

There probably is some sort of real factor that goes into where you fight.