Holly
Holm
can probably feel Father Time nipping at her heels.
The former
Ultimate Fighting Championship women’s bantamweight titleholder
will seek her second win in as many appearances when she toes the
line against
Mayra
Bueno Silva in the
UFC on ESPN 49 headliner this Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las
Vegas. Holm marches into her latest assignment with an 8-6 record
inside the Octagon. She last fought at UFC on ESPN 43, where she
outpointed
Yana Santos
to a unanimous decision in their three-round pairing on March 25.
Silva, meanwhile, has rattled off three straight victories. She
last competed on Feb 18, when she dispatched
Lina
Lansberg with a kneebar in the second round of their UFC Fight
Night 219 confrontation.
As Holm and Silva close in on their upcoming showdown, a look at
some of the numbers that have accompanied them to this point:
41: Years of age for Holm, who was born on Oct. 17, 1981, in
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
8: Holm wins by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for 53%
of her career total (15). Her list of UFC victims:
Bethe
Correia and
Ronda
Rousey. Holm holds seven other wins by decision (47%).
897: Total strikes landed by Holm as a UFC women’s bantamweight,
placing her seventh on the promotion’s all-time list at 135 pounds.
Only
Raquel
Pennington (1,310),
Amanda
Nunes (1,099),
Alexis
Davis (1,000),
Julianna
Pena (964),
Irene
Aldana (960) and the aforementioned Santos (938) have connected
with more.
70: Rounds started by Holm as a professional mixed martial artist.
She has gone the distance on 11 different occasions and carries a
7-4 record in those bouts.
114: Combined victories between the six opponents—Nunes,
Ketlen
Vieira,
Cristiane
Justino,
Germaine
de Randamie,
Valentina
Shevchenko and
Miesha
Tate—who have defeated Holm. They boast a cumulative .809
winning percentage at 114-27.
31: Years of age for Silva, who was born in Uberlandia, Brazil, on
Aug. 22, 1991.
7: Silva victories by submission, accounting for 70% of her career
total (10). Her methods of choice: five armbars, one ninja choke
and one kneebar. Silva owns one other victory by knockout or
technical knockout (10%) and two more by decision (20%).
58: Seconds needed for Silva to put away
Shun Lee with
an armbar at a Delta Fight Club show on March 7, 2015. More than
eight years later, it remains her fastest finish to date.
1: Stalemate on the Silva resume. She battled
Elevation Fight Team export
Montana
De La Rosa to a majority draw at UFC Fight Night 186 in
2021.
.808: Cumulative winning percentage between the two
opponents—
Manon
Fiorot and
Maryna
Moroz—who have beaten Silva. They sport a combined record of
21-5.