Weird MMA Facts/Trivia

[gentel]

1. Wonderboy beat Whittaker and Max Holloway beat Charles Oliveira
2. Dominick Reyes beat Jon Jones 3-2 at UFC 274

 

[humdizzle]

Rose beat Zhang twice
Espaza beat rose twice
Zhang beat esparza

It would be possible to have a card with Jan Blachowicz, Petr Yan, and Yan Xionan. As well as Alexander volkanovski, Alexander Volkov, and Volkan oezdemir.

 

[TCE]

Rose beat Zhang twice
Espaza beat rose twice
Zhang beat esparza

It would be possible to have a card with Jan Blachowicz, Petr Yan, and Yan Xionan. As well as Alexander volkanovski, Alexander Volkov, and Volkan oezdemir.

In 2023, there was 4 champions with 'Alex' in their first name.

Alex Pereira
Alexander Volkanovski
Alexa Grasso
Alexandre Pantoja

 

[Nathan LaMontagne]

BJ Penn had a close and competitve fight with Lyoto Machida at light heavyweight in Japan.

Actually it wasn't at LHW. It was Open weight.

So BJ fought at 145,155,170,185, not 205, and OW/HW

The fight wasn't that close.

 

[AmericanMMA]

Butterbean has more career submissions than BJ Penn.

My mind has been blown

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

Dennis Hallman has 2 wins over Matt Hughes in 1998 and 2020, in less than 40 seconds combined. Hughes won the belt in 2001

 

[Gamer2k4]

Brian Stann was born in Tokyo, Japan

That's hard to believe, give that he's got probably the most American jawline I think I've ever seen.

 

[HHJ]

That's hard to believe, give that he's got probably the most American jawline I think I've ever seen.

He was born there, which seems odd, but its because his parents were living at an Army base there.

 

[HHJ]

Butterbean has more career submissions than BJ Penn.

That shouldnt be.

Something went very wrong here.

 

[Y2Khaos]

Rose beat Zhang twice
Espaza beat rose twice
Zhang beat esparza

Matt Hughes beat Frank Trigg twice
Frank Trigg beat Dennis Hallman twice
Dennis Hallman beat Matt Hughes twice

 

[Gamer2k4]

Did you know...

Tyron Woodley holds the UFC record for least amount of strikes thrown in a title fight?

Got any more details than that? I'm guessing you mean for fights that went the distance, because otherwise you'd have to include ones like Rousey/Zingano where Ronda didn't throw any strikes but won in 14 seconds. And in all of Woodley's title fights except against Usman, he landed more strikes than his opponents, so it seems unlikely you're referring to those, either. Which fight are you talking about, and how many strikes did he throw?

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

That’s quite a distinction. How many or few did he throw?

Threw 156, landed 57

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Got any more details than that? I'm guessing you mean for fights that went the distance, because otherwise you'd have to include ones like Rousey/Zingano where Ronda didn't throw any strikes but won in 14 seconds. And in all of Woodley's title fights except against Usman, he landed more strikes than his opponents, so it seems unlikely you're referring to those, either. Which fight are you talking about, and how many strikes did he throw?

It was versus Maia. Joe butchered the hell out of what the truck told him to say because he said "Fewest strikes thrown in a fight."

 

[HHJ]

Renzo Gracie live tweeting him beating the shit out of some guys in NYC

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1326065-uhdid-renzo-gracie-live-tweet-assaulting-some-random-guys-in-new-york-city

 

[Gamer2k4]

Threw 156, landed 57

In the Wonderboy fight, he only threw 141, so that stat isn't even the least amount Woodley's thrown. But then we can look at other fights, like Carla/Rose 2, where Carla landed 30/133, so we know that at the very least, someone else threw and landed fewer strikes in a five-round title fight than Woodley.

 

[jeff7b9]

0-0 Danny Lafever fought
UFC veteran Benji "Razor" Radach
In October 2003

Benji was ranked #13 in the world at MW at the time according to Fightmetric with either 9-1 or 15-1 record at the time depending on the source. (Those early days were somewhat wild wild west in terms of sanctioning and what bouts counted as official)


According to legend:
Danny never intended to be a fighter
and they were "fighting over a girl"


Danny won by R1 KO. Video below
Basically a random guy off the streets KOed a top 15 MW.

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

0-0 Danny Lafever fought
UFC veteran Benji "Razor" Radach
In October 2003

Benji was ranked #13 in the world at MW at the time according to Fightmetric with either 9-1 or 15-1 record at the time depending on the source. (Those early days were somewhat wild wild west in terms of sanctioning and what bouts counted as official)


According to legend Danny never intended to be a fighter
and they were "fighting over a girl"


Danny won by R1 KO. Video below
Basically a random guy off the streets KOed a top 15 MW.




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No one believes me when I said I could beat Kopylov. This is my exhibit A.

Now all I need is to hit on his girlfriend

 

[don't ask]

In the Wonderboy fight, he only threw 141, so that stat isn't even the least amount Woodley's thrown. But then we can look at other fights, like Carla/Rose 2, where Carla landed 30/133, so we know that at the very least, someone else threw and landed fewer strikes in a five-round title fight than Woodley.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

Probably not that unknown a piece of trivia, but Bam Bam Bigelow got beat up by Kimo in his lone MMA bout, in Japan. A ton of controversy behind it, bc Bam Bam claims it was supposed to have been a work, and he wasn't informed that it was an actual fight. Make of that what you will, was either scummy promoter setting up Bam Bam for failure, or Bam Bam trying to save face after his tough guy pro wrestling image was shattered.

 

[sonhow]

Mike Jackson somehow had four ufc fights despite his only official mixed martial arts victory came by the way of dq. Thats more fights in ufc than most mma practioners can claim.