Fight Facts: UFC 309 ‘Jones vs. Miocic’

Fight Facts is a breakdown of all of the interesting information and Octagon oddities on every card, with some puns, references and portmanteaus to keep things fun. These deep stat dives delve into the numbers, providing historical context and telling the stories behind those numbers.

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TOTAL NUMBER OF UFC FIGHTS: 7,942

TOTAL NUMBER OF UFC EVENTS: 713

The Ultimate Fighting Championship employed a “damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead” approach for its latest pay-per-offering, slapping a championship battle few seemed to want along with a trio of betting mismatches. What resulted was a slow drip until the main attraction, one that played out relative to expectations with one spinning…