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Two well-traveled but relevant
Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight contenders will
collide when
Calvin
Kattar meets
Josh Emmett
in the
UFC on ESPN 37 headliner this Saturday at the Moody Center in
Austin, Texas. Neither man wants to get lost in the shuffle at 145
pounds.
Kattar has rattled off five wins over his past outings. The
EliteXC
alum last competed at UFC on ESPN 32, where he outpointed
Kings MMA standout
Giga
Chikadze to a five-round unanimous decision. Emmett, meanwhile,
climbs into the Octagon on the strength of a four-fight winning
streak. The
Team Alpha Male rep last fought on Dec. 11, when he took a
unanimous verdict from
Dan Ige at UFC
269.
As Kattar and Emmett approach their pivotal five-round clash, a
look at some of the numbers that have accompanied them to this
point:
34: Years of age for Kattar, who was born on March 26, 1988 in
Methuen, Massachusetts.
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 and 10 more by
decision.
76.1: Significant strikes landed by Kattar per UFC appearance. He
has connected on 761 such strikes across his 10 assignments inside
the Octagon, including a career-best 144 of them in his
aforementioned victory over Chikadze.
3: Sub-minute finishes on the Kattar resume. He struck
Bob Pupa into
submission in 51 seconds at Combat Zone 24 on Oct. 13, 2007,
punched out
Kevin Roddy
in 47 seconds at Combat Zone 26 on Sept. 26, 2008 and cut down
Jonathan
Bermudez with punches in 29 seconds at Combat Zone 27 on Feb.
6, 2009.
83: Combined victories between the five men—
Max
Holloway,
Zabit
Magomedsharipov,
Renato
Carneiro,
Don
Carlo-Clauss and
James
Jones—who have beaten Kattar. They sport a cumulative .697
winning percentage (83-35-1).
37: Years of age for Emmett, who was born in Phoenix on March 4,
1985.
6: Emmett victories by knockout or technical knockout, accounting
for 35% of his career total (17). His list of UFC victims: Lamas,
Mirsad
Bektic and
Michael
Johnson. Emmett holds two other wins by submission and nine
more by decision.
45: Seconds needed for Emmett to punch out
Noah
Schnable under the West Coast Fighting Championship banner on
Nov. 16, 2013. Having occurred eight-plus years ago, it remains his
fastest finish to date.
36: Professional rounds completed by Emmett as a mixed martial
artist. He has gone the distance on 10 different occasions and
carries a 9-1 record in those bouts.
.650: Cumulative winning percentage between the two
opponents—Stephens and
Desmond
Green—who have defeated Emmett. They boast a combined record of
52-28.