By the Numbers: UFC Fight Night 204

There’s a fresh face among contenders in the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s heavyweight division.

Tom Aspinall delivered on the biggest stage of his career to date, submitting Alexander Volkov with a first-round armlock in front of a raucous home crowd in the UFC Fight Night 204 headliner at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday. The Team Kaobon member looks a serious player at heavyweight, and he celebrated his victory with a post-fight beer and a callout of Tai Tuivasa.

Here is a by-the-numbers look at UFC Fight Night 204, with statistics courtesy of UFCStats.com.

5: Consecutive victories for Aspinall in UFC competition. The Manchester native has finished all five of his opponents in the Octagon, tying him with Tai Tuivasa for the longest active finish streak in the Las Vegas-based promotion.

11: First-round finishes among 12 professional victories for Aspinall since the beginning of his MMA tenure in 2014.

4,258: Days since Volkov’s last submission defeat, a rear-naked choke loss to Maxim Grishin at an M-1 Global event on July 22, 2010.

29: Significant strikes landed by Aspinall. Volkov, meanwhile, landed 13 in defeat. Aspinall was also 2-for-2 on takedowns and enjoyed 1:54 of control time in his victory.

9: Consecutive victories for Arnold Allen, who vanquished Dan Hooker via first-round technical knockout in the evening’s featherweight co-main event. That total surpasses reigning 145-pound champ Alexander Volkanovski for the longest active winning streak in the UFC’s featherweight division.

49: Significant strikes landed by Allen during a furious offensive salvo that ended at the 2:33 mark of Round 1. Forty-three of those significant strikes were landed to the head of his opponent. By comparison, Hooker landed 14 significant strikes in defeat.

124: Total strike advantage for Gunnar Nelson in a lopsided unanimous decision over Takashi Sato at welterweight. In Nelson’s first fight since September 2019, the Iceland native went 3-for-3 on takedowns, logged 8:09 of control time and attempted one submission.

4: Spinning back elbow knockouts in UFC history after Molly McCann used the maneuver to render Luana Carolina unconscious 1:52 into Round 3 of their flyweight contest. McCann’s previous six Octagon appearances had all gone to the judges. The others to accomplish the feat: Ricardo Ramos, Dong Hyun Kim and Jiri Prochazka.

5: UFC victories for McCann, tying “Meatball” for the fifth most in women’s flyweight history.

56: Significant strikes landed by McCann in a wild Round 1 in which the Cage Warriors veteran had Carolina reeling on multiple occasions. By comparison, Carolina landed 22 significant strikes in the frame. The Brazilian outlanded McCann 42 to 29 in significant strikes the rest of the way before succumbing to her opponent’s spinning back elbow.

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3: Anaconda choke victories for Makwan Amirkhani in his UFC career, tying him with lightweight champion Charles Oliveira for most in promotion history. “Mr. Finland” used the move to tap Mike Grundy 57 seconds into Round 1 of their preliminary featherweight encounter.

0: Significant strikes landed by Amirkhani and Grundy in their abbreviated clash, making it just the seventh fight in UFC history in which no strikes were landed.

875: Days since Sergei Pavlovich’s last promotional appearance, a first-round TKO win over Maurice Greene at UFC Fight Night 162 on Oct. 26, 2019. The 29-year-old Russian returned to the win column with a first-round stoppage of Shamil Abdurakhimov in a preliminary heavyweight bout on Saturday.

12: First-round finishes among 15 professional victories for Pavlovich.

7: Career submission victories for Paul Craig, the second-most in UFC light heavyweight history behind only Glover Teixeira. Craig used a triangle choke to tap Nikita Krylov 3:57 into the opening round of their 205-pound clash.

8: Finishes at 205 pounds for Craig, tying him with Chuck Liddell and Mauricio Rua for fourth most in the history of the UFC light heavyweight division. Only Teixeira (13), Ovince St. Preux (11) and Jon Jones (10) have more.

4: Consecutive victories for Craig, tying him with Jones for the third-longest active winning streak at light heavyweight behind Magomed Ankalaev (eight) and Teixeira (six).

17: Significant strikes by which Krylov outlanded Craig — including a 16-to-2 advantage on the ground — before the Scottish fighter’s submission victory.

2: Knockdowns landed by Jack Shore in a pivotal third round against Timur Valiev in their bantamweight bout. That helped propel the former Cage Warriors champion to a closely contested unanimous decision triumph.

5: Consecutive UFC triumphs for Shore, tying him with T.J. Dillashaw for the third-longest active winning streak in the bantamweight division. Only Aljamain Sterling (six) and Merab Dvalishvili (six) have longer streaks at 135 pounds. Shore has won 16 consecutive professional fights overall.

0:58: Time of Muhammad Mokaev’s guillotine choke victory against Cody Durden, the second-fastest submission in UFC flyweight history. Ben Nguyen’s 49-second rear-naked choke win against Tim Elliott at UFC Fight Night 110 in June 2017 is the fastest submission at 125 pounds.

2: Bouts at UFC London that ended by submission in less than a minute, making it just the second event in the modern era with two tapouts in under a minute. The first: UFC 188, which saw both Patrick Williams and Efrain Escudero score sub-one minute submission triumphs.