UFC 276 post-event facts: Alexander Volkanovski joins exclusive club with 12-0 UFC start

Check out the facts and figures to come out of UFC 276, where Alexander Volkanovski continued his epic run with a 22nd consecutive win.

The biggest UFC event of the year thus far took place Saturday with UFC 276, which went down at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and featured a plethora of notable names – none more so than a pair of champions from Oceania.

In the main event, [autotag]Israel Adesanya[/autotag] (23-1 MMA, 12-1 UFC) outpointed [autotag]Jared Cannonier[/autotag] (15-6 MMA, 8-6 UFC) for a unanimous decision to defend the middleweight title. That win came soon after [autotag]Alexander Volkanovski[/autotag] (25-1 MMA, 12-0 UFC) defended the featherweight title against [autotag]Max Holloway[/autotag] (23-7 MMA, 19-7 UFC) with another unanimous decision in their trilogy bout.

For more on the numbers behind the card, check below for MMA Junkie’s post-event facts from UFC 276.

Julija Stoliarenko def. Jessica-Rose Clark at UFC 276: Best photos

Check out the best photos from Julija Stoliarenko’s submission win over Jessica-Rose Clark at UFC 276.

Check out the best photos from [autotag]Julija Stoliarenko[/autotag]’s submission win over [autotag]Jessica-Rose Clark[/autotag] at UFC 276 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. (Photos by Stephen R. Sylvanie, USA TODAY Sports)

UFC 276 video: Julija Stoliarenko snaps Jessica-Rose Clark’s arm in 42 seconds

Julija Stoliarenko opened the UFC 276 mega-card with a gruesome submission of Jessica-Rose Clark.

LAS VEGAS – [autotag]Julija Stoliarenko[/autotag] opened the UFC 276 mega-card with a gruesome submission of [autotag]Jessica-Rose Clark[/autotag].

Stoliarenko (10-6-2 MMA, 1-4 UFC) avoided a fifth consecutive octagon defeat Saturday when she secured a nasty armbar that snapped Clark’s (10-8 MMA, 1-4 UFC) arm a mere 42 seconds into the women’s bantamweight bout.

It was the second-fastest submission in divisional history behind Ronda Rousey’s 14-second win over Cat Zingano in 2015, and it was a much-needed one for Stoliarenko.

Check out the replay of the gnarly finish below (via Twitter):

After the win, Stoliarenko told UFC commentator Joe Rogan that she was not aggressive enough with her submissions earlier in her career, so when she isolated Clark’s arm, she twisted until her foe feverishly tapped.

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Matchup Roundup: New UFC and Bellator fights announced in the past two weeks (April 18-May 1)

All the UFC and Bellator fight announcements that were broken or confirmed by MMA Junkie in the past two weeks.

MMA fight announcements are hard to follow. With so many outlets and channels available, it’s nearly impossible to organize.

But here at MMA Junkie, we’ve got your back.

Each week, we’ll compile all the newly surfaced fights in one spot. Every Monday, expect a feature listing everything you might have missed from the UFC or Bellator.

Here are the fight announcements that were broken or confirmed by MMA Junkie from April 18-May 1.

UFC Fight Night 201 video: Stephanie Egger taps Jessica-Rose Clark with slick armbar

Stephanie Egger achieved the biggest win of her career with a first-round finish of Jessica-Rose Clark at UFC Fight Night 201.

[autotag]Stephanie Egger[/autotag] picked up the biggest win of her career Saturday when she finished [autotag]Jessica-Rose Clark[/autotag] in the first round at UFC Fight Night 201.

Egger (7-2 MMA, 2-1 UFC) needed less than four minutes to beat Clark (10-7 MMA, 4-3 UFC) in the grappling exchanges in the women’s bantamweight fight, which took place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.

Once the fight hit the mat, it was one-way traffic for Egger, who isolated an arm and forced Clark to tap out at the 3:44 mark of Round 1.

Check out the replay of her handiwork below (via Twitter):

After losing her UFC debut, Egger now has reeled off back-to-back victories inside the octagon. She’s trending upward in a 135-pound division that badly needs new blood.

“I hope I can fight as soon as possible, and I’m ready for it,” Egger said in her post-fight interview with Paul Felder. “So give me the next opponent.”

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UFC Fight Night 201 pre-event facts: Jim Miller adds to record for most fights

The best facts and figures about UFC Fight Night 201, which sees Jim Miller add to his all-time record for most fights.

UFC’s busy February schedule continues Saturday with UFC Fight Night 201 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The entire card streams on ESPN+.

A matchup of ranked light heavyweights serves as the headliner of the card. [autotag]Johnny Walker[/autotag] (18-6 MMA, 4-3 UFC) and [autotag]Jamahal Hill[/autotag] (9-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) clash in a pairing of two fighters in pursuit of their first UFC main event win.

For more on the numbers on the full card, check below for 25 pre-event facts about UFC Fight Night 201.

Matchup Roundup: New UFC and Bellator fights announced in the past week (Dec. 20-26)

All the UFC and Bellator fight announcements that were broken or confirmed by MMA Junkie in the past week.

MMA fight announcements are hard to follow. With so many outlets and channels available, it’s nearly impossible to organize.

But here at MMA Junkie, we’ve got your back.

Each week, we’ll compile all the newly surfaced fights in one spot. Every Monday, expect a feature listing everything you might have missed from the UFC or Bellator.

Here are the fight announcements that were broken or confirmed by MMA Junkie from Dec. 20-26.

UFC Fight Night 196 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Paulo Costa gets $6,000

UFC Fight Night 196 fighters took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay, a program that continued after the UFC’s deal with Venum.

LAS VEGAS – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 196 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $157,500.

The program, a comprehensive plan that includes outfitting requirements, media obligations and other items under the fighter code of conduct, replaces the previous payments made under the UFC Athlete Outfitting Policy.

UFC Fight Night 196 took place at the UFC Apex. The entire card streamed on ESPN+.

The full UFC Fight Night 196 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

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[autotag]Marvin Vettori[/autotag]: $11,000
def. [autotag]Paulo Costa[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Grant Dawson[/autotag]: $6,000
vs. [autotag]Ricky Glenn[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Jessica-Rose Clark[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Joselyne Edwards[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Alex Caceres[/autotag]: $21,000
def. [autotag]Seungwoo Choi[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Francisco Trinaldo[/autotag]: $21,000
def. [autotag]Dwight Grant[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Nicolae Negumereanu[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Ike Villanueva[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Gregor Rodrigues[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Junyong Park[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Mason Jones[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]David Onama[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Tabatha Ricci[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Maria Oliveira[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Jamie Pickett[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Laureano Staropoli[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Jai Herbert[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Khama Worthy[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Jeff Molina[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Daniel da Silva[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Randa Markos[/autotag]: $16,000
def. [autotag]Livinha Souza[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Jonathan Martinez[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Zviad Lazishvili[/autotag]: $4,000

Under the UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance program’s payout tiers, which appropriate the money generated by Venum’s multi-year sponsorship with the UFC, fighters are paid based on their total number of UFC bouts, as well as Zuffa-era WEC fights (January 2007 and later) and Zuffa-era Strikeforce bouts (April 2011 and later). Fighters with 1-3 bouts receive $4,000 per appearance; 4-5 bouts get $4,500; 6-10 bouts get $6,000; 11-15 bouts earn $11,000; 16-20 bouts pocket $16,000; and 21 bouts and more get $21,000. Additionally, champions earn $42,000 while title challengers get $32,000.

In addition to experience-based pay, UFC fighters will receive in perpetuity royalty payments amounting to 20-30 percent of any UFC merchandise sold that bears their likeness, according to officials.

Full 2021 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:

Year-to-date total: $4,489,000
Program-to-date total: $4,489,000

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UFC Fight Night 196 predictions: Marvin Vettori or Paulo Costa in 205-pound main event?

Check out our staff members’ picks for the UFC Fight Night 196 main event with Marvin Vettori vs. Paulo Costa at light heavyweight.

Costa
vs.
Vettori
Dawson
vs.
Glenn
Clark
vs.
Edwards
Caceres
vs.
Choi
Grant
vs.
Trinaldo
Negumereanu
vs.
Villanueva
MMA Junkie readers’
consensus picks
2021: 167-97
costa2021
Costa
(57%)
dawson2021
Dawson
(87%)
clark2021
Clark
(75%)
choi2021
Choi
(50.1%)
trinaldo2021
Trinaldo
(63%)
negumereanu2021
Negumereanu
(77%)
John Morgan
@MMAjunkieJohn
2021: 172-92
vettori2021
Vettori
dawson2021
Dawson
clark2021
Clark
choi2021
Choi
trinaldo2021
Trinaldo
negumereanu2021
Negumereanu
Simon Samano
@SJSamano
2021: 166-98
vettori2021
Vettori
dawson2021
Dawson
edwards2021
Edwards
choi2021
Choi
trinaldo2021
Trinaldo
negumereanu2021
Negumereanu
Nolan King
@mma_kings
2021: 164-100
vettori2021
Vettori
dawson2021
Dawson
edwards2021
Edwards
choi2021
Choi
trinaldo2021
Trinaldo
negumereanu2021
Negumereanu
Dan Tom
@DanTomMMA
2021: 161-103
trophy copy 2020 Champion
vettori2021
Vettori
glenn2021
Glenn
clark2021
Clark
choi2021
Choi
trinaldo2021
Trinaldo
villanueva2021
Villanueva
Ken Hathaway
@kenshathaway
2021: 160-104
trophy copy 2018 Champion
costa2021
Costa
dawson2021
Dawson
edwards2021
Edwards
choi2021
Choi
grant2021
Grant
negumereanu2021
Negumereanu
Matt Erickson
@MMAjunkieMatt
2021: 160-104
vettori2021
Vettori
dawson2021
Dawson
clark2021
Clark
choi2021
Choi
trinaldo2021
Trinaldo
negumereanu2021
Negumereanu
Mike Bohn
@MikeBohnMMA
2021: 159-105
trophy copy 2014 Champion
vettori2021
Vettori
dawson2021
Dawson
clark2021
Clark
caceres2021
Caceres
trinaldo2021
Trinaldo
negumereanu2021
Negumereanu
Brian Garcia
@thegoze
2021: 155-109
trophy copy 2017 Champion
costa2021
Costa
dawson2021
Dawson
clark2021
Clark
choi2021
Choi
trinaldo2021
Trinaldo
negumereanu2021
Negumereanu
Danny Segura
@dannyseguratv
2021: 154-110
vettori2021
Vettori
dawson2021
Dawson
edwards2021
Edwards
caceres2021
Caceres
trinaldo2021
Trinaldo
negumereanu2021
Negumereanu
George Garcia
@MMAjunkieGeorge
2021: 153-111
vettori2021
Vettori
dawson2021
Dawson
clark2021
Clark
caceres2021
Caceres
grant2021
Grant
negumereanu2021
Negumereanu
Farah Hannoun
@Farah_Hannoun
2021: 151-113
costa2021
Costa
dawson2021
Dawson
clark2021
Clark
choi2021
Choi
trinaldo2021
Trinaldo
negumereanu2021
Negumereanu
Abbey Subhan
@kammakaze
2021: 150-115
costa2021
Costa
dawson2021
Dawson
clark2021
Clark
choi2021
Choi
trinaldo2021
Trinaldo
negumereanu2021
Negumereanu
Matthew Wells
@MrMWells
2021: 90-58
vettori2021
Vettori
dawson2021
Dawson
clark2021
Clark
caceres2021
Caceres
grant2021
Grant
negumereanu2021
Negumereanu

The UFC stays home in Las Vegas this week with a key middleweight matchup atop the card – thought it won’t be at that weight class.

UFC Fight Night 196 takes place Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The card streams on ESPN+.

(Click here to open a PDF of the staff picks grid in a separate window.)

In the main event, [autotag]Paulo Costa[/autotag] (13-1 MMA, 5-1 UFC) takes on [autotag]Marvin Vettori[/autotag] (17-4-1 MMA, 7-3-1 UFC) in a fight between the most recent two middleweight title challengers. They both lost to champion Israel Adesanya. But this fight won’t be at middleweight thanks to Costa’s failure to make weight. They’ll fight at 205 pounds after Costa came into fight week heavy and intially asked for a catchweight. Vettori is a -185 favorite at Tipico; the comeback on Costa is +140. Our 13 editors, writers, radio hosts and videographers have Vettori with a 9-4 picks lead.

In the co-feature, [autotag]Grant Dawson[/autotag] (17-1 MMA, 5-0 UFC) is the biggest favorite on the card at -420 in his lightweight fight against [autotag]Ricky Glenn[/autotag] (22-6-1 MMA, 4-3 UFC). He’s a near-unanimous pick from our staff members at 12-1.

Also on the main card, [autotag]Jessica-Rose Clark[/autotag] (10-6 MMA, 3-2 UFC) takes on [autotag]Joselyne Edwards[/autotag] (10-3 MMA, 1-1 UFC) in a women’s bantamweight bout. Clark is a -160 favorite, and she’s got a sizable 9-4 picks lead.

[autotag]Alex Caceres[/autotag] (18-12 MMA, 13-10 UFC) meets [autotag]Seungwoo Choi[/autotag] (10-3 MMA, 3-2 UFC) in a featherweight bout. Choi nearly is a 3-1 favorite, and he’s up big in the picks at 9-4.

It’s a close fight at the betting window between welterweights [autotag]Dwight Grant[/autotag] (11-3 MMA, 3-2 UFC) and [autotag]Francisco Trinaldo[/autotag] (26-8 MMA, 16-7 UFC). Trinaldo is just a -135 favorite, but he’s got a big 10-3 edge in the picks.

And to open the main card, [autotag]Nicolae Negumereanu[/autotag] (10-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) is a -230 favorite at light heavyweight against [autotag]Ike Villanueva[/autotag] (18-12 MMA, 1-3 UFC). He’s a near-unanimous pick at 12-1 from our staff members.

In the MMA Junkie reader consensus picks, Costa (57 percent), Dawson (87 percent), Clark (75 percent), Choic (50.1 percent), Trinaldo (63 percent) and Negumereanu (77 percent) are the choices.

Check out all the picks above.

‘F*cking frustrated’ from injury layoff, Jessica-Rose Clark wants to inflict pain on Joselyne Edwards

Jessica-Rose Clark plans on taking out all of her built-up frustration on her opponent at UFC Fight Night 196.

LAS VEGAS – [autotag]Jessica-Rose Clark[/autotag] plans to unleash all her built-up frustration on Joselyne Edwards.

Returning from a more than one-year layoff due to ACL surgery, Clark (10-6 MMA, 3-2 UFC) meets Edwards (10-3 MMA, 1-1 UFC) on Saturday on the main card of UFC Fight Night 196.

Clark will make the walk for just the third time in three years. After going through multiple injuries, the 33-year-old Aussie looks to carry on the momentum from her past finish of Sarah Alpar.

“I’m so f*cking frustrated,” Clark told MMA Junkie at UFC Fight Night 196 media day on Wednesday. “Just because obviously I’ve spent most of 2019 on the shelf and then I got injured again in 2020, and I’m just having these year, year-and-half long blocks and it sucks. I’m a full-time athlete, and I can’t even do my job full time.”

She continued, “My goal with every fight probably since I lost to Pannie (Kianzad) – I had a big mindset shift, and my goal with every fight now is just to make it as painful as f*cking possible for the other person. It’s just to be violent, make it bloody, be a dog. That’s it. Typical Australian style is to survive, brawl and be a dog, so that’s my goal. Win or loss, it’s gonna be the worst f*cking night of her life, that’s for sure.”

UFC Fight Night 196 takes place Saturday at UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The card streams on ESPN+. To see the full interview with Clark, check out the video above.

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