By The Numbers: Neil Magny vs. Daniel Rodriguez
No one guards the welterweight gate with any more consistency or diligence than Neil Magny.
“The Haitian Sensation” will seek to establish a new Ultimate Fighting Championship record for wins at 170 pounds—he remains tied with Georges St. Pierre with 19—when he toes the line against Daniel Rodriguez in the UFC Fight Night 214 co-main event on Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Magny finds himself on the rebound ahead of his latest assignment. The Elevation Fight Team mainstay last appeared at UFC on ESPN 38, where he submitted to a guillotine choke from the undefeated Shavkat Rakhmonov in the second round of their June 25 pairing. Rodriguez, meanwhile, has rattled off four straight victories. The Syndicate MMA rep last competed on Sept. 10, when he escaped his UFC 279 encounter against Jingliang Li with a split decision.
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35: Years of age for Magny, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, on Aug. 3, 1987.
16: Magny victories by decision, accounting for
62% of his career total (26). Two former UFC champions—Robbie
Lawler and Johny
Hendricks—highlight the list of those he has outpointed inside
the Octagon. Magny holds seven other victories by knockout or
technical knockout (27%) and three more by submission (11%).
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1,239: Significant strikes landed by Magny as a UFC welterweight, placing him third on the promotion’s all-time list at 170 pounds. Only the aforementioned St. Pierre (1,254) and Kamaru Usman (1,239) have connected with more.
76: Rounds completed by Magny as a professional mixed martial artist. He has gone the distance on 18 different occasions and carries a 16-2 mark in those bouts.
.730: Cumulative winning percentage between the nine opponents—Rakhmonov, Michael Chiesa, Santiago Ponzinibbio, Rafael dos Anjos, Lorenz Larkin, Demian Maia, Seth Baczynski, Sergio Moraes and Andrew Trace—who have beaten Magny. They sport a combined record of 187-69-1.
35: Years of age for Rodriguez, who was born on Dec. 31, 1986 in Alhambra, California.
8: Rodriguez wins by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for 47% of his career total (17). His list of UFC victims: Preston Parsons and Dwight Grant. Rodriguez owns four other wins by submission (24%) and five more by decision (29%).
115: Seconds needed for Rodriguez to bury Joel Champion with punches at Combate Americas 13 on April 20, 2017. More than five years later, it remains his fastest finish to date.
7: Organizations in which Rodriguez has plied his mixed martial arts trade. He has gone 7-1 in the UFC, 5-1 in Combate Global, 1-0 in Bellator MMA, 1-0 in Dana White’s Contender Series, 1-0 in King of the Cage, 1-0 in California Xtreme Fighting and 1-0 in Smash Global.
116: Combined victories between the seven opponents—Parsons, Grant, Jingliang Li, Kevin Lee, Mike Perry, Gabriel Green and Tim Means—Rodriguez has defeated as a member of the UFC roster. They boast a .698 cumulative winning percentage at 116-50-1.
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