By The Numbers: UFC 282

The Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight belt will remain without a home for the time being.

Jan Blachowicz and Magomed Ankalaev spent 25 minutes in the cage together on Saturday night, but very little was resolved by the end of the UFC 282 headliner, as the cageside judges scored the contest a majority draw. While many observers thought Ankalaev deserved the nod, the unsatisfying final result leaves the division to remain in an unhappy limbo after Jiri Prochazka vacated the title due to injury last month.

Here is a by-the-numbers look at UFC 282, with statistics courtesy of UFCStats.com.

5: Draws in UFC championship history. Blachowicz vs. Ankalaev joins Cael Uno vs. B.J. Penn (UFC 41), Frankie Edgar vs. Gray Maynard (UFC 125), Tyron Woodley vs. Stephen Thompson (UFC 205) and Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Brandon Moreno (UFC 256) as the only title fights in the Octagon to have such a result.

23: Unofficial media scorecards, of the 24 tracked by MMADecisions.com, that scored the title fight for Ankalaev. Media tallies for Ankalaev ranged from 49-45 to 48-47.

78: Significant strikes landed by Ankalaev. By comparison, Blachowicz landed 55. Ankalaev notably outlanded his opponent by a combined 28-to-1 count in significant strikes over the fight’s last 10 minutes. Ankalaev also held a 191-to-78 edge in total strikes landed.

25: Significant leg strikes landed by Blachowicz, who had his opponent’s movement compromised through a steady diet of leg kicks after three rounds. Ankalaev, meanwhile, landed 10 significant leg strikes.

2: Takedowns landed in 10 attempts for Ankalaev. The Dagestani logged 9:22 of his 11:20 of total control time in the final two rounds. Blachowicz did not attempt a takedown, nor did he secure a single second of control time in the fight.

23: Unofficial media scorecards, of the 24 tracked by MMADecisions.com, that scored the lightweight co-main event between Jared Gordon and Paddy Pimblett in favor of Gordon. Judges Douglas Crosby, Chris Lee and Ron McCarthy saw it differently, as all three submitted 29-28 tallies in favor of “The Baddy” to give him a unanimous decision victory.

63: Significant strikes landed by Pimblett. Gordon, meanwhile, landed 58. Gordon outlanded his opponent 30 to 29 in Round 1, while Pimblett outlanded his adversary 28 to 24 in Round 2 and 6 to 4 in Round 3. Gordon held a slight 100-to-97 edge in total strikes landed.

3: Takedowns landed in six attempts for Gordon, who also secured 6:28 of control time to Pimblett’s 35 seconds. Pimblett failed on each of his three takedown tries.

66: Significant strikes landed by Santiago Ponzinibbio in a third-round stoppage of short-notice foe Alex Morono in a 180-pound catchweight bout. By comparison, Morono landed 38. Ponzinibbio notably held a 26-to-4 edge in significant body strikes landed.

4: Consecutive victories for Dricus Du Plessis, tying him with Alex Pereira, Roman Dolidze and Andre Petroski for the second-longest active winning streak in the UFC’s middleweight division. Only Andre Muniz (five) has a longer winning streak at 185 pounds. Du Plessis submitted Darren Till with a neck crank 2:43 into the third frame.

73: Total strikes by which Du Plessis outlanded Till in a dominant opening round. “Stillknocks” also went 3-for-3 on takedowns and logged 3:56 of control time in the frame.

1-5: Record for Till in UFC competition dating back to September 2018. That dates back to UFC 228, where he was submitted by Tyron Woodley in a welterweight title bout.

.890: Takedown defense rate for Ilia Topuria against grappling specialist Bryce Mitchell. The Spaniard stuffed eight of nine attempts by his opponent, scored the fight’s only knockdown and submitted “Thug Nasty” with an arm-triangle choke at the 3:10 mark of Round 2. Mitchell had landed a combined 14 takedowns in his previous three UFC appearances.

18: Age of Raul Rosas Jr., who is the youngest fighter in promotion history (by one month) to make his UFC debut. “El Nino Problema” made it one to remember, submitting Jay Perrin at the 2:44 mark of Round 1 with a rear-naked choke.

7: Career KO/TKO triumphs in UFC competition for Jairzinho Rozenstruik, who blitzed Chris Daukaus for a 23-second technical knockout victory in their heavyweight matchup. The Suriname native’s list of victims also includes Augusto Sakai, Junior dos Santos, Alistair Overeem, Andrei Arlovski, Allen Crowder and Junior Albini.

3: Consecutive knockout defeats for Daukaus, who has fallen to Rozenstruik, Curtis Blaydes and Derrick Lewis in succession after beginning his UFC tenure with four straight victories.

1,134: Days since Edmen Shahbazyan’s last Octagon triumph, a first-round KO of Brad Tavares at UFC 244 on Nov. 2, 2019. The Xtreme Couture member endured three consecutive losses and a camp change before returning to the win column on Saturday night with a second-round stoppage of Dalcha Lungiambula in a preliminary middleweight tilt.

14: Significant strike deficit for Chris Curtis in his second-round knockout victory over Joaquin Buckley at middleweight. Buckley outlanded Curtis 29 to 19 in Round 1 and 21 to 17 in Round 2 before succumbing to punches at the 2:49 mark of the second stanza. Buckley was also the far more active fighter in the bout, attempting 163 significant strikes to his opponent’s 87.

52: Significant strike advantage for Billy Quarantillo in the second round of his featherweight showdown against Alexander Hernandez, when he finished the fight with a barrage of strikes at the 4:30 mark. Contrast that to Round 1, when Hernandez held a 32-to-19 advantage in significant strikes landed.

42: Significant strikes by which Cameron Saaiman outlanded fellow Octagon newcomer Steven Koslow in their bantamweight clash. Saaiman outlanded his foe 23 to 8 at distance, 9 to 1 in the clinch and 21 to 2 on the ground. Saaiman also held a 105-to-20 edge in total strikes landed.

8: Combined reversals executed by Saaiman (six) and Koslow (two) in a contest that featured a number of grappling exchanges on the canvas. Saaiman logged 6:29 of control time, while Koslow had 4:40.