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The
Professional Fighters League swings back into gear on Friday at
Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta, where lightweights
Clay
Collard and
Alex
Martinez will shoulder the marquee. Collard and Martinez enter
their
PFL 4 main event with three points each in the current
standings at 155 pounds.
Collard climbs into the cage with wins in five of his past six
bouts. He last appeared on April 20, when he kicked off his 2022
campaign with a unanimous decision from fellow Ultimate Fighting
Championship veteran
Jeremy
Stephens. Martinez, meanwhile, has lost twice in his past three
outings. He last competed at PFL 1, where he was awarded a
unanimous verdict over
Steven Ray in
April.
As Collard and Martinez pore over the remaining details associated
with their forthcoming clash, a look at some of the numbers that
have accompanied them to this point:
29: Years of age for Collard, who was born in Payson, Utah, on
March 10, 1993.
10: Collard wins by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for
48% of his career total (21). His list of victims includes
Lucas
Montoya,
Steve Sharp
and
Dustin
Collins. Collard holds three other wins by submission and eight
more by decision.
44: Seconds needed for Collard to wipe out
Steve
Walser with punches at Showdown Fights 7 in May 2012. More than
a decade later, it remains the fastest finish of his 31-fight
career.
124: Significant strikes absorbed by Collard in his third-round
technical knockout loss to eventual featherweight champion
Max
Holloway at UFC Fight Night 49 on Aug. 23, 2014. It was the
Hawaiian’s highest output to date at the time.
155: Combined victories between the nine opponents—Holloway,
Raush
Manfio,
Darrick
Minner,
Tiago
dos Santos e Silva,
Gabriel
Benitez,
Justin
Buchholz,
David
Castillo,
Oliver
Parker and
Jose
Salgado—who have defeated Collard. They sport a .686 cumulative
winning percentage (155-70-1).
28: Years of age for Martinez, who was born on May 21, 1994 in
Encarnacion, Paraguay.
4: Martinez victories by submission, accounting for 44% of his
career total (nine). His methods of choice: two guillotine chokes,
one rear-naked choke and one armbar. Martinez owns two other
victories by knockout or technical knockout and three more by
decision.
20: Professional rounds completed by Martinez as a professional
mixed martial artist. He has gone the distance on five different
occasions and carries a 3-2 record in those bouts.
7: Consecutive calendar years in which Martinez has fought at least
once. In addition to his 1-0 mark in 2022, he went 1-0 in 2016, 2-0
in 2017, 2-0 in 2018, 1-0 with one no contest in 2019, 1-0 in 2020
and 1-2 in 2021.
.771: Cumulative winning percentage between the two
opponents—
Loik
Radzhabov and
Natan
Schulte—who have beaten Martinez. They boast a combined record
of 37-9-2.