This Saturday, the UFC makes its maiden trip to Raleigh, North Carolina, with an important fight in the UFC heavyweight division.

In the main event, Curtis Blaydes (12-2 MMA, 7-2 UFC) takes on former UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos (21-6 MMA, 15-5 UFC) in a battle between the respective third and fourth-ranked men in the weight class.

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

Blaydes rebounded from a 45-second TKO loss to Francis Ngannou with a wide unanimous decision victory against Justin Willis and a second-round TKO win over Shamil Abdurakhimov.

Outside of his two career losses to Ngannou, Blaydes is undefeated in his other 8 bouts in the UFC heavyweight division.

Dos Santos scored consecutive second-round TKO wins over Tai Tuivasa and Derrick Lewis before coming up short in a first-round TKO loss against the aforementioned Ngannou.

The Brazilian holds the record for the most significant strikes landed as well as knockdowns scored in UFC heavyweight history.

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 Blaydes fared against any shared opponents and on the right, you’ll see dos Santos’ results against the same men.

The two men share three common opponents: Mark Hunt, Alistair Overeem, and Francis Ngannou.

Both men suffered TKO defeats against Ngannou (twice in Blaydes’ case), whilst Blaydes had to settle for a decision victory over Hunt- an opponent dos Santos finished via KO.

Blaydes scored a vicious third-round TKO win over Overeem in June 2018, whilst the Dutchman scored a TKO win over dos Santos in December 2015.

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 166: Curtis Blaydes vs. Junior dos Santos checks in with a score of +1. This score ranks joint-35th out of all 43 UFC events in the last year or joint-18th 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: