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By The Numbers: 2022 PFL Championships Pre-Fight Edition


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Kayla Harrison will take aim at a third consecutive Professional Fighters League title when her women’s lightweight final opposite Larissa Pacheco headlines the 2022 PFL Championships on Friday at Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theater in New York. Meanwhile, Brendan Loughnane toes the line against onetime NCAA wrestling champion Bubba Jenkins in a featherweight final that serves as the co-main event.

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As the PFL prepares to close out its latest campaign, a look at some of the numbers fighters on the card bring to the table:

5: Consecutive calendar years in which Harrison has fought at least once. In addition to her 3-0 mark in 2022, she went 3-0 in 2018, 4-0 in 2019, 1-0 in 2020 and 4-0 in 2021.

11: Organizations for which Pacheco has suited up as a mixed martial artist. She has gone 7-2 in the PFL, 3-0 in Jungle Fight, 0-2 in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, 1-0 in Watch Out Combat Show, 1-0 in Extreme Kombat MMA, 1-0 in Marituba Total Combat, 1-0 in Marituba Fight, 1-0 in Gladiator Fight, 1-0 in Adrenaline Fight, 1-0 in Ultimate Fight Imperatriz and 1-0 in Ultimate Fight Tracuateua.

75: Significant strikes landed by Loughnane in his lone UFC appearance—a unanimous decision defeat to Mike Wilkinson at UFC on FX 6 in 2012. “The Ultimate Fighter: The Smashes” semifinalist absorbed only 54 such strikes in return but still wound up on the short side of 29-28 scorecards across the board.

1: Opponent to whom Jenkins has lost twice. Former World Series of Fighting champion Georgi Karakhanyan choked him unconscious with a first-round guillotine at Bellator 132 in January 2015 and flattened him with first-round punches at Bellator 160 in August 2016.

12: Matheus Scheffel wins by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for 71% of his career total (17). Dana White’s Contender Series graduate Juan Adams highlights his list of victims. Scheffel takes on Ante Delija in the 2022 PFL heavyweight final.

38: Seconds needed for Delija to prompt a corner stoppage against Erni Strmonja at a Noc Gladijatora show on April 23, 2011. More than a decade later, it remains his fastest finish to date.

39: Years of age for Julia Budd. The oldest fighter on the card, she was born on July 4, 1983 in Roberts Creek, British Columbia. Budd, a former Bellator MMA champion, meets Aspen Ladd in a three-round women’s featherweight showcase.

1,084: Days since Ladd last visited the winner’s circle. She has followed her Dec. 7, 2019 technical knockout of Yana Kunitskaya at UFC on ESPN 7 with back-to-back losses to Norma Dumont and Raquel Pennington.

9: Steven Ray victories by submission, accounting for 36% of his career total (25). His methods of choice: three rear-naked chokes, one brabo choke, one heel hook, one arm-triangle choke, one triangle armbar, one armbar and one twister. Ray confronts Olivier Aubin-Mercier in the 2022 PFL lightweight final.

42: Rounds completed by Aubin-Mercier as a mixed martial artist. “The Ultimate Fighter Nations” finalist has gone the distance on 12 different occasions and carries a 7-5 record in those bouts.

2: Stalemates on the Sadibou Sy ledger. He fought Bruno Santos to a majority draw at PFL 10 on Oct. 20, 2018 and fought Ray Cooper III to a majority draw at PFL 7 on Oct. 11, 2019. Sy tackles Dilano Taylor in the 2022 PFL welterweight final.

7: Welterweight titleholders in Titan Fighting Championship history, with Taylor being the seventh. Belal Muhammad, Dhiego Lima, Jason Jackson, Jose Caceres, Uros Jurisic and Michael Graves are the others.

8: Different countries in which Omari Akhmedov has plied his mixed martial arts trade. He has gone 7-5-1 in the United States, 11-1 in his native Russia, 2-0 in the United Arab Emirates, 1-0 in Ukraine, 1-0 in Brazil, 1-0 in Australia, 1-0 in Sweden and 0-1 in England. Akhmedov tackles Rob Wilkinson in the 2022 PFL light heavyweight final.

13: First-round finishes on the Wilkinson resume, with two of them having taken place in the Professional Fighters League. He buried Viktor Pesta with punches 3:03 into their June 17, 2022 encounter at PFL 4 and cut down Delan Monte with punches and a follow-up knee strike 1:37 into their Aug. 5, 2022 pairing at PFL 7.

24: Years of age for Dakota Ditcheva. The youngest fighter on the card, she was born on July 25, 1998 in Sale, England. The undefeated Ditcheva faces Katherine Corogenes in a three-round women’s flyweight prelim.

.753: Cumulative winning percentage between the 22 professionals scheduled to compete at the event. They boast a combined record of 396-128-5. Gleison Tibau holds the most victories (37) of anyone on the card, while Jeremy Stephens has been saddled with the most losses (20). Both men are booked to appear on the undercard, Tibau against Magomed Magomedkerimov at 170 pounds and Stephens against Natan Schulte at 155 pounds.
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