This Friday, the UFC returns to Boston with a headlining fight that could determine the next contender for light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones.

In the main event, the fourth-ranked UFC light-heavyweight Dominick Reyes (11-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC) takes on former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman (14-4 MMA, 10-4 UFC) in the latter’s first fight at 205 pounds.

Let’s take a look at the last three results of the two men in Friday night’s main event:

Reyes followed a first-round TKO win over Jared Cannonier (who was himself victorious in a UFC main event last month), with back-to-back decision wins over former title contenders Ovince Saint Preux and Volkan Oezdemir.

Reyes’ current run of 5 consecutive victories is the longest active winning streak in the UFC light-heavyweight division.

Weidman rebounded from a second-round TKO loss to Gegard Mousasi with a third-round submission win over Kelvin Gastelum, before suffering a third-round KO defeat in a Fight of the Night against Ronaldo ‘Jacaré’ Souza.

Weidman and Anderson Silva hold the record for the longest combined UFC winning streak between two opponents (21) in promotional history.



Reyes and Weidman share no common opponents throughout their professional MMA careers.

The Dwyer Score Each event, I calculate a ‘Dwyer Score’ for the card. It essentially gives a numeric value to the momentum of fighters competing at any one event. I do this by assigning a figure to each fighter’s current streak; a fighter on a five-fight winning streak contributes +5 to an event’s score, whilst a fighter on a two-fight losing streak contributes -2 to the score. Only UFC results are considered and a fighter coming off a no-contest, a draw, or a bout with another promotion has a streak of 0. When you tally up the scores for every fighter on a card, you get a total for the event- the ‘Dwyer Score.’ This score does not claim to predict or measure the quality or excitement of any one card, but it does give you an idea of the general momentum of fighters heading into a specific event. The graphic to the above-right displays some of the highest-scoring events of all time, to help give some context to this score. UFC on ESPN 6: Dominick Reyes vs. Chris Weidman checks in with a score of +6. This score ranks 29th out of 45 UFC events in the last year, and 4th out of the 6 UFC on ESPN events. Here’s a look at how this score compares to other events’ scores over the past year: