By the Numbers: UFC Fight Night 233

Yadong Song is getting comfortable in the main event position.

Competing in his third consecutive headliner, the “Kung Fu Kid” shut down Chris Gutierrez over five rounds to earn a unanimous decision triumph at UFC Fight Night 233 on Saturday night at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Song has won five of his last six Octagon appearances and remains entrenched among the contenders at 135 pounds.

Here is a by-the-numbers look at UFC Fight Night 233, with statistics courtesy of UFCStats.com.

2-1: Record for Song in UFC main events. “Kung Fu Kid” has bested Gutierrez and Ricky Simon while falling to Cory Sandhagen in headliners for the Las Vegas-based promotion. All three of those fights have reached the championship rounds.

78: Significant strikes landed by Gutierrez over the first three rounds. Song landed 48 over that same period.

9: Significant strikes landed by Gutierrez in Rounds 4 and 5. Song, meanwhile, landed 29 significant strikes in the fight’s final 10 minutes.

76: Significant leg strikes, out of 87 total, landed by Gutierrez. Song landed 30 significant leg strikes.

35: Significant head strikes landed by Song. Gutierrez landed just eight. Song also held a 12-to-3 edge in significant body strikes and a 24-to-0 advantage in significant ground strikes.

160: Total strikes landed by Song. By comparison, Gutierrez landed 105.

11:03: Total control time for Song, who landed two of three takedowns in the contest. Gutierrez, meanwhile, did not have any control time and was unsuccessful on his two takedown attempts.

5: Consecutive victories for Khalil Rountree, tying him with Carlos Ulberg for the longest-active winning streak in the UFC’s light heavyweight division. Rountree defeated Anthony Smith via third-round technical knockout in Saturday’s co-main event.

7: KO/TKO victories at light heavyweight for Rountree, third most in the history of the division behind only Chuck Liddell (10) and Mauricio Rua (eight).

1,589: Days since Nasrat Haqparast’s last finish in the Octagon, a second-round knockout of Joaquim Silva at UFC on ESPN 5 on Aug. 3, 2019. Haqparast defeated Jamie Mullarkey via TKO 1:44 into the opening round of their middleweight matchup.

2: Knockdowns landed by Haqparast in less than two minutes against Mullarkey. Haqparast landed knockdowns in each of his first four UFC appearances but had landed just one in his last seven outings prior to Saturday night.

11: Takedowns landed, in 14 attempts, by Andre Muniz in a split-decision triumph over Jun Yong Park. That ties him with Marvin Vettori and Nick Maximov for the second-most takedowns ever landed in a UFC middleweight bout. Only Makhmud Muradov, who secured 13 takedowns against Bryan Barberena at UFC Fight Night 224, has landed more in a single 185-pound fight.

9:34: Total control time for Muniz. By comparison, Park logged 2:58 of control time. Park outlanded his foe 27 to 14 in significant strikes but couldn’t shift momentum in his favor long enough to earn the nod from the cageside judges.

134: Significant strikes landed by Kevin Jousset in a unanimous decision win over Kenan Song at welterweight. Joussett landed more than 40 significant strikes in each stanza while connecting on 57% of his attempts. Song landed 62 significant strikes — at a 39% success rate — in defeat.

7: Knockdowns suffered by Shannon Ross in three UFC bouts and one Dana White’s Contender Series appearance. On Saturday, “The Turkish Delight” was dropped twice by Hyun Sung Park en route to a TKO defeat at the 3:59 mark of Round 2. Ross is winless in those four fights.

24: Significant strike advantage for Steve Garcia in the decisive second round of his technical knockout victory over Melquizael Costa at lightweight. After being controlled for 4:41 of the opening frame, “Mean Machine” finished his opponent with elbows from mount 1:01 into Round 2.

5: Knockdowns landed by Garcia in his last three UFC appearances. He is 3-0 in those fights.

4: Consecutive 125-pound victories for Japanese prospect Tatsuro Taira, tying him with Alexandre Pantoja, Amir Albazi and Manel Kape for the second-longest winning streak in the UFC’s flyweight division. Taira defeated Carlos Hernandez via second-round technical knockout in their preliminary clash on Saturday. Taira has a five-fight winning streak in UFC competition overall, but one of those wins came at a catchweight.

33: Significant strikes landed by Taira, including one knockdown. Hernandez, meanwhile, landed just two significant strikes.

9: Unofficial media scorecards, of the 10 tracked by MMADecisions.com, that scored the strawweight fight between Rayanne Amanda dos Santos and Talita Alencar in favor of dos Santos. However, judges Adalaide Byrd and Ron McCarthy submitted 29-28 tallies in favor of Alencar, giving “The Problem Child” a split-decision triumph.

57: Significant strikes landed by dos Santos. By comparison, Alencar landed 36. Dos Santos also stuffed eight of her opponent’s nine takedown attempts.