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.
As Magny and Rodriguez approach their upcoming battle as Top 15
welterweights, a look at some of the numbers that have accompanied
them to this point:
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%).
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.