UFC Fight Night 36 went off from Jaragua do Sul, Brazil, on Saturday night, and for the second consecutive event, an unfortunate bit of history occurred for the promotion.

The fans who filled Arena Jaragua certainly got their money’s worth as they witnessed the longest event in UFC history and a record-tying amount of fights to go the distance.

In the main event, former UFC light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida (21-4 MMA, 13-4 UFC) made an argument that he should be the next middleweight title contender with a unanimous decision victory over Gegard Mousasi (34-4-2 MMA, 1-1 UFC) by scores of 50-45, 50-45 and 49-46.

Machida pushed his record to 2-0 since dropping to 185 pounds in October, and now “The Dragon” could be one victory away from becoming the third fighter in UFC history to win belts in two weight classes.

With the organization’s first event of the year in Brazil now in the books, FightMetric‘s research analyst and live statistics producer Michael Carroll helps bring 35 post-fight facts to come out of UFC Fight Night 36.

GENERAL

UFC Fight Night 36 tied the record set by UFC 169 for the most fights to go to a decision at a single event with 10.

Total fight time for the 12-bout card was 173 minutes, 32 seconds, surpassing UFC 169 for the longest event in company history.

UFC Fight Night 36 drew an announced attendance of 7,511.

Machida, Mousasi, Erick Silva and Charles Oliveira earned $50,000 UFC Fight Night 36 fight-night bonuses.

Betting favorites went 8-4 at the event.

In the 13 events the UFC has held in Brazil, fighters from the country are 70-28 against foreign opposition. Brazilian fighters went 7-3 against outsiders at UFC Fight Night 36.

MAIN CARD

Machida improved to 4-3 in UFC main-event fights.

Machida earned his eighth career victory against a fighter who once held a title in UFC, Strikeforce or PRIDE.

Mousasi suffered his first defeat in the middleweight division since a submission loss to Akihiro Gono at a PRIDE event in August 2006.

Mousasi suffered his first decision loss since April 17, 2010 – a span of 1,400 days (nearly four years) and eight fights.

Ronaldo Souza’s (20-3 MMA, 3-0 UFC) three-fight UFC winning streak is tied for the third longest active streak in the middleweight division behind Brad Tavares (five) and Chris Weidman (seven).

Souza’s six-fight MMA winning streak is his longest since 2008.

Souza earned his first decision victory since Aug. 21, 2010 – a span of 1,274 days (more than three years) and eight fights.

Francis Carmont (22-8 MMA, 6-1 UFC) had his 11-fight MMA winning streak snapped for his first defeat since April 2008.

Carmont suffered his first decision loss since Nov. 10, 2007 – a span of 2,289 days (more than six years) and 14 fights.

Erick Silva (16-4 MMA, 4-3 UFC) has alternated wins and losses throughout his seven-fight UFC career.

Silva has finished his opponent by first-round knockout or submission in all four of his UFC victories.

Silva has earned a fight-night bonus in four of his past five UFC bouts.

Silva landed all 18 strikes thrown in his 52-second knockout of Takenori Sato (17-9-7 MMA, 0-1 UFC), the most ever landed in a UFC fight without missing. The previous record was held by Anderson Silva, who went 13-for-13 against James Irvin at UFC Fight Night 14.

Silva avoided being hit with a single strike for the third time in his UFC career, becoming the first fighter in history to accomplish such a feat. Several fighters were previously tied with Silva with two UFC appearances without absorbing a single strike.

Silva became the sixth fighter in modern UFC history to register two knockout victories in less than one minute each. With the feat, he joins B.J. Penn, Johny Hendricks, Mike Swick, Anthony Johnson and Roy Nelson.

Silva’s starching of Sato dropped his overall average UFC fight time to 4:35, the shortest average among active fighters with the promotion.

Sato was knocked out for the first time since Sept. 23, 2009 – a span of 1,606 days (more than four years) and 13 fights. Sato has been finished with strikes in six of his nine career defeats.

Sato threw and landed zero strikes in his knockout loss to Silva.

Nicholas Musoke (12-2 MMA, 2-0 UFC) extended his career-best undefeated streak to eight.

Charles Oliveira (17-4 MMA, 5-4 UFC) has earned all five of his UFC victories by submission.

Since Oliveira’s debut on Aug 1, 2010, he has won six fight-night bonuses. Only Donald Cerrone (eight) and Joe Lauzon (seven) have earned more fight-night bonuses in that time frame.

Andy Ogle (9-4 MMA, 1-3 UFC) was submitted for the first time since Nov. 28, 2009 – a span of 1,540 days (more than four years) and 11 fights.

PRELIMINARY CARD

UFC Fight Night 36 marked the second consecutive UFC event where every preliminary-card bout went the distance to a decision.

Jesse Ronson (13-4 MMA, 0-2 UFC) is on the first two-fight losing streak of his 17-fight career. “The Body Snatcher” has suffered both of his UFC defeats by decision.

Yuri Alcantara (29-5 MMA, 4-2 UFC) improved to 2-1 with one no-contest since dropping to the UFC bantamweight division.

Alcantara has earned three of his four UFC victories by decision.

Wilson Reis (17-5 MMA, 1-1 UFC) was defeated by decision for the first time since May 13, 2010 – a span of 1,374 days (nearly four years) and 10 fights.

Maximo Blanco (9-6-1 MMA, 1-3 UFC) fell to 1-4 in his past five UFC/Strikeforce fights.

Zubair Tuhugov’s (16-3 MMA, 1-0 UFC) four takedowns landed were the most of any fighter on the card.

Douglas de Andrade (22-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) had his 21-fight unbeaten streak snapped for the first defeat of his professional career.

For complete coverage of UFC Fight Night 36, check out the UFC Events section of the site.