WEC 45: Streaks, Days, and Distance

381 Distance (381) miles between San Jose, where Strikeforce will be held, and Las Vegas, where WEC 45 takes place. Zuffa isn’t battling it out with Strikeforce with its big gun the UFC, instead the smaller promotion will have a go and it has some solid fights.

70 It was just (70) days ago when 10-2 Donald Cerrone lost a close decision to Benson Henderson in a great fight at WEC 43. Now he’ll tangle with Ed Ratcliff who has a 7-1 mark.

243 Combined record (24-3) of lightweights Anthony Njokuani and Chris Horodecki. Njokuani is 11-2 while Horodecki is 13-1.

4 This will be Njokuani’s (4th) appearance in the WEC and Horodecki’s debut and should be an exciting fight.

3 This will be the (3rd) WEC card in a row on which Joseph Benavidez and Rani Yahya have appeared and this time they’re fighting each other. Both also fought at WEC 40 and 42.

3 The bantamweight Yahya is riding a (3) fight winning streak during which time he’s subbed each of his opponents.

10 Benavidez had his (10) fight win streak snapped in his last bout, a decision loss to Dominick Cruz.

2 Number of times (2) Takeya Mizugaki has fought in the U.S. His first was a thrilling decision loss to Miguel Torres. His second was a very close decision win over Jeff Curran.

21 Scott Jorgenson has a distinct pattern of wins and losses as he’s gone (2-1) three times in a row. He is coming off a win over Noah Thomas at WEC 43 so if he is to continue the pattern he’ll have to get by Mizugaki and improve to 8-3 overall.

6 So far lightweight Anthony Pettis has a perfect record and (6) of his seven fights have ended in round one. He’s fighting a much more experienced Bart Palaszewski who is 32-13 overall.

9 Palaszewski’s last (9) fights have gone beyond the first round and he has just a 4-5 record during the stretch.