This Saturday, arguably the most highly anticipated fight in UFC history finally goes down.

Undisputed featherweight champion José Aldo (25-1 MMA, 7-0 UFC) will face interim featherweight champion Conor McGregor (18-2 MMA, 6-0 UFC) in the seventh title unification fight in UFC history.

In the co-main, undefeated UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman (13-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC) takes on former Strikeforce middleweight champion Luke Rockhold (14-2 MMA, 4-1 UFC).

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

Aldo notched a fourth-round TKO victory over Chan Sung Jung before scoring back-to-back unanimous decision wins against Ricardo Lamas and Chad Mendes, the latter coming in one of the most memorable fights of last year.

Only Anderson Silva (10), Georges St-Pierre (9), and Jon Jones (8) have recorded more consecutive successful title defenses than Aldo (7) in UFC history.

McGregor followed a first-round TKO victory over Dustin Poirier with second-round TKO stoppages against Dennis Siver and Chad Mendes.

The brash Irishman has earned five fight-night bonuses in his first six UFC bouts.

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

The two men share just one common opponent; Chad Mendes.

Aldo has fought Mendes on two occasions, winning via first-round KO in 2012 and getting the nod in a five-round decision last October.

McGregor defeated Mendes via second-round TKO in July to become the interim UFC featherweight champion.

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

Weidman has scored four consecutive victories over Brazilian former UFC champions, including a unanimous decision victory over Lyoto Machida and TKO wins against Anderson Silva and Vitor Belfort.

At UFC 162, Weidman and Silva set the record for the longest combined UFC winning streak between two opponents (21).



Rockhold has won his last three bouts via submission, stopping Tim Boetsch in the first round and Michael Bisping and Lyoto Machida in the second.

A win for Rockhold would see him join Ronda Rousey in the list of former Strikeforce champions who have gone on to hold UFC gold.

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

The two men share two common opponents; Vitor Belfort and Lyoto Machida.

Weidman notched a unanimous decision victory over Machida and a first-round TKO win against Belfort, whilst Rockhold defeated Machida via submission but suffered a spectacular first-round KO defeat to Belfort.

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 194: José Aldo vs. Conor McGregor posts a massive score of +62. This score ranks 1st out of 343 events in UFC history. Here’s a look at how this score compares to other events’ scores over the past year: