By the Numbers: UFC Vegas 105

Lerone Murphy frustrated Josh Emmett for five rounds as he continued his climb in the Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight division.

“The Iceman” relied on intelligent movement and varied striking to capture a unanimous decision triumph over Emmett in the UFC Vegas 105 headliner on Saturday night at the UFC Apex. While Murphy didn’t author a crowd-pleasing performance, it was a sound strategy against an adversary with dangerous knockout power. Emmett, who was fighting for the first time since December 2023, has lost three of his last four Octagon appearances.

Here is a by-the-numbers look at UFC Vegas 105, with statistics courtesy of UFCStats.com.

8: Consecutive victories for Murphy, tying him with Movsar Evloev for the longest active winning streak in the UFC’s featherweight division.

84: Significant strikes landed by Murphy. By comparison, Emmett landed 41. Murphy outlanded his opponent 13 to 2 in Round 2, 21 to 5 in Round 3, 22 to 13 in Round 4 and 18 to 11 in Round 5. Both fighters landed 10 significant strikes in the opening stanza.

.530: Significant striking accuracy for Murphy, who landed 84 of 157 attempts. Emmett was less successful, landing 41 of 143 attempts — a 28% clip.

30: Significant leg strikes for Murphy. Emmett, meanwhile, landed six. Murphy also outlanded his foe 17 to 6 in significant body strikes and 37 to 29 in significant head strikes.

4: Takedowns landed in 11 attempts for Emmett. That’s the most Emmett has landed since he had eight against Scott Holtzmann in his second promotional appearance on Dec. 17, 2016. In his ensuing 12 bouts, the Team Alpha Male product landed three takedowns combined.

13:47: Total control time for Pat Sabatini in a lopsided unanimous decision triumph over Joanderson Brito in the featherweight co-main event. Sabatini was successful on four of five takedowns and outlanded his foe by a 135-to-27 count in total strikes. Brito was only able to attempt nine significant strikes — landing three — over the course of 15 minutes.

37: Significant ground strikes — out of 44 total — landed by Chang Ho Lee en route to a technical knockout victory over Cortavious Romious at the 3:48 mark of Round 2. Romious, meanwhile, failed to land a significant ground strike. Lee, who is called “The Korean Khabib” by some, also held a 116-to-14 edge in total strikes.

16: UFC victories for Brad Tavares, tying him with Michael Bisping for the most in middleweight history. Tavares outpointed Gerald Meerschaert in a featured 185-pound clash on Saturday. Tavares’ 26 total fights also rank No. 1 at middleweight.

14: Decision victories in the Octagon for Tavares, most in UFC middleweight history. Krzysztof Jotko is No. 2 with 10.

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5:37:35: Total fight time for Tavares, also No. 1 in UFC middleweight history. By spending 15 minutes in the Octagon with Meerschaert, the Hawaiian further distanced himself from the second-ranked Bisping (5:15:15).

0: Takedowns landed in eight attempts for the submission-minded Meerschaert.

8: Takedowns landed in 17 attempts by Torrez Finney in his Octagon debut, a split-decision triumph against Robert Valentin at middleweight. Finney also logged 13:16 of control time in the 15-minute affair. Finney landed 18 total takedowns over the course of three Dana White’s Contender Series appearances before earning a UFC deal.

4: Significant strikes landed by Finney over three rounds. Valentin outlanded his opponent 23 to 4 in significant strikes and 93 to 17 in total strikes.

6: Submission losses — out of 10 career defeats — for Diana Belbita, who fell victim to a Dione Barbosa arm-triangle choke 4:13 into the opening round of their flyweight encounter. It was, however, the first time that Belbita has tapped to an arm-triangle choke in her professional tenure.

3: Knockdowns landed by Rhys McKee in the opening round in a stoppage win over Dana White’s Contender Series alum Daniel Funza at welterweight. The contest was halted by a cageside doctor before the second stanza. The three knockdowns ties McKee with multiple others for second-most knockdowns landed in a single UFC bout at 170 pounds.

33: Occasions in UFC history in which a fighter has landed three or more knockdowns in a round after McKee accomplished the feat.

43: Significant strikes landed by both McKee and Frunza in that frame. However, McKee did far more serious damage with his offense.

6: Decision triumphs for Konklak Suphisara — better known as Looma Lookboonmee — after outpointing Istela Nunes in a strawweight showdown. That figure ties her with Claudia Gadelha, Randa Markos and Weli Zhang for seventh most in UFC strawweight history.

142: Total strikes landed by Martin Buday in a three-round verdict over short-notice foe Uran Satybaldiev at heavyweight. By comparison, Satybaldiev landed 45 total strikes.

12:38: Control time for Talita Alencar in a unanimous decison triumph over Vanessa Demopoulos in their strawweight bout. Alencar landed four of five takedowns and held a 45-to-10 edge in significant strikes landed.