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By The Numbers: Calvin Kattar vs. Arnold Allen


While reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight titleholder Alexander Volkanovski sets plans to go big-game hunting, those in line behind him at 145 pounds will be left to battle over the scraps that remain in his absence. The group includes Calvin Kattar and Arnold Allen, the participants in the UFC Fight Night 213 headliner on Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.

Kattar enters the cage having lost twice in three appearances. He last fought at UFC on ESPN 37, where he wound up on the wrong side of a contentious split decision against Team Alpha Male’s Josh Emmett on June 18. Allen, meanwhile, finds himself on a career-best 11-fight winning streak. The Tristar Gym product last competed on March 19, when he disposed of Dan Hooker with punches and elbows in the first round of their UFC Fight Night 204 pairing.

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As Kattar and Allen move ever closer to their forthcoming confrontation, a look at some of the numbers that have accompanied them to this point:

34: Years of age for Kattar, who was born in Methuen, Massachusetts, on March 26, 1988.

11: Kattar wins by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for 48% of his career total (23). His list of UFC victims: Jeremy Stephens, Ricardo Lamas, Chris Fishgold and Shane Burgos. Kattar owns two other wins by submission (9%) and 10 more by decision (43%).

891: Significant strikes landed by Kattar as a UFC featherweight, placing him fifth on the promotion’s active list at 145 pounds. Only Max Holloway (2,670), Cub Swanson (1,319), Alexander Volkanovski (1,254) and Darren Elkins (1,070) have connected with more.

7: Organizations for which Kattar has plied his mixed martial arts trade. In addition to his 7-4 mark in the UFC, he has gone 9-0 in Combat Zone, 3-0 in CES MMA, 2-0 in World Championship Fighting, 1-1 in the Xtreme Championship Fight League, 1-0 in American Steel Cagefighting and 0-1 EliteXC.

.721: Cumulative winning percentage between the six opponents—Emmett, Holloway, Zabit Magomedsharipov, Renato Carneiro, Don Carlo-Clauss and James Jones—who have defeated Kattar. They boast a combined record of 101-38-1.

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

4: Allen victories by submission, accounting for 22% of his career total (18). His methods of choice: two guillotine chokes, one rear-naked choke and one triangle choke. Allen holds six other victories by knockout or technical knockout (33%) and eight more by decision (45%).

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

45: Rounds started by Allen as a professional mixed martial artist. He has gone the distance on nine different occasions and carries an 8-1 record in those bouts.

180: Combined wins between the nine opponents—Hooker, Sodiq Yusuff, Nik Lentz, Gilbert Melendez, Jordan Rinaldi, Mads Burnell, Makwan Amirkhani, Yaotzin Meza and Alan Omer—Allen has beaten since he joined the UFC roster in 2015. They sport a cumulative .714 winning percentage at 180-70-2.
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