By The Numbers: Leon Edwards vs. Belal Muhammad

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Leon Edwards fancies himself a legitimate contender for the undisputed Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight crown, and he will get another chance to prove his worth when he meets Belal Muhammad in the UFC Fight Night 187 headliner on Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.

Edwards enters the cage on the strength of eight consecutive victories. The former British Association of Mixed Martial Arts champion has not competed since he took a five-round unanimous decision from Rafael dos Anjos in the UFC on ESPN 4 main event on July 20, 2019. Muhammad, meanwhile, finds himself on a four-fight winning streak. Having captured a unanimous decision over Dhiego Lima at UFC 258 in February, the former Titan Fighting Championship titleholder serves as a short-notice substitution for Khamzat Chimaev.

As Edwards and Muhammad approach their high-stakes affair, a look at some of the numbers that have accompanied them to this point:

29: Years of age for Edwards, who was born on Aug. 25, 1991 in Kingston, Jamaica—some 4,600 miles from where he now trains in Birmingham, England.

166: Combined victories between the eight men—dos Anjos, Gunnar Nelson, Donald Cerrone, Peter Sobotta, Bryan Barberena, Vicente Luque, Albert Tumenov and Dominic Waters—Edwards has beaten during his current winning streak. They own a cumulative winning percentage of .712.

6: Edwards wins by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for 33% of his career total (18). His list of victims includes Sobotta, Seth Baczynski and Shaun Taylor. Edwards owns three other victories by submission and nine more by decision.

5: First-round finishes on the Edwards resume, highlighted by his eight-second knockout of the aforementioned Baczynski at UFC Fight Night 64 in April 2015.

1,911: Days since Edwards last tasted defeat. The culprit? Current welterweight champion Kamaru Usman, who executed six takedowns against the Team Renegade representative and laid claim to a three-round unanimous decision over him at UFC on Fox 17 on Dec. 19, 2015.

32: Years of age for Muhammad, who was born in Chicago on July 9, 1988. “Coming to America,” “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” “Big” “License to Drive” and “Arthur 2: On the Rocks” were the Top 5 movies at the domestic box office at the time.

188: Total strikes by which Muhammad has outlanded his opponents—Lima, Lyman Good, Takashi Sato and Curtis Millender—across his last four wins. He has connected on 426 of them while absorbing only 238 in return.

13: Muhammad victories by decision, accounting for 72% of his career total (18). He boasts four other wins by knockout and one by submission.

790: Significant strikes landed by Muhammad since he joined the UFC roster in 2016, placing him 10th among active welterweights. Neil Magny leads the pack with 1,119.

4: Organizations in which Muhammad has competed as a professional mixed martial artist. He has gone 9-3 in the UFC, 4-0 in Hoosier Fight Club, 3-0 in Titan Fighting Championship and 2-0 in Bellator MMA.