This Saturday, vacant UFC gold is up for grabs as two flyweights battle to pick up Henry Cejudo’s relinquished belt.

Joseph Benavidez (28-5 MMA, 15-3 UFC) will be fighting for the UFC 125 lbs. title for the third time in his career as he takes on Deiveson Figueiredo (17-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC) in Norfolk, Virginia.

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

Benavidez followed a first-round TKO win over Alex Perez with consecutive victories in rematches, defeating Dustin Ortiz via unanimous decision for a second time before defeating Jussier Formiga by TKO for a second time.

Defeat on Saturday would see Benavidez tie the record shared by Alexander Gustafsson, Chael Sonnen, Dan Henderson, Kenny Florian, Pedro Rizzo, and Urijah Faber for the most losses in UFC title fights without ever becoming champion (3).

Figueiredo rebounded from a unanimous decision loss against Formiga- the first defeat of his professional MMA career- with a unanimous decision win over Alexandre Pantoja and a first-round submission against Tim Elliott.

A win for Figueiredo would see him become the first Brazilian to win an undisputed men’s UFC championship in nearly five years- since Fabrício Werdum won heavyweight gold in June 2015.

Here’s a look at how these two fighters fared when competing against common opponents shared throughout careers. On the left of the graphic, you’ll see how Benavidez fared against any shared opponents and on the right, you’ll see Figueiredo’s results against the same men.

The two men share three common opponents: Tim Elliott, John Moraga, and Jussier Formiga.

Both men won via first-round guillotine choke against Elliott, whilst both men also came out victorious over Moraga- Benavidez via unanimous decision and Figueiredo via TKO.

Benavidez has twice scored TKO victories against Formiga, whilst Figueiredo suffered a unanimous decision defeat to the Brazilian veteran.

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 Fight Night 169: Joseph Benavidez vs. Deiveson Figueiredo posts a score of +9. This score ranks joint-21st out of all 43 UFC events in the last year or 11th out of 24 Fight Nights in the same period. Here’s a look at how this score compares to other events’ scores over the past year: