UFC Fight Night 61 post-fight facts: Frank Mir further adds to heavyweight record books

Frank Mir

Brazil is quickly becoming the preeminent home for UFC upsets, and for the second time in 15 months, the country hosted an event with a record-breaking amount of underdog victories.

UFC Fight Night 61 featured an unprecedented 10 upsets, the last of which saw Frank Mir (17-9 MMA, 15-9 UFC) knock out Antonio Silva (18-7-1 MMA, 2-4-1 UFC) in the first round of Sunday’s main event.

Mir entered the bout on a four-fight losing skid and with his back against the wall. The UFC’s longest-tenured active fighter managed to stop “Bigfoot” in quick and decisive fashion, though, to further add to his legacy as one of the company’s all-time great fighters.

For the latest on Mir’s stat sheet, as well as other notable stats to come out of the UFC’s first event in Brazil in 2015, check out 40 post-fight facts about UFC Fight Night 61.

General

Antonio Silva and Frank Mir

In the UFC’s 20 Brazilian events, fighters from the country are 107-58 against foreign opposition. Brazilians went 3-7 against outsiders at UFC Fight Night 61.

UFC Fight Night 61 marked the fifth event in the UFC’s past six trips to Brazil to feature a first-round-knockout finish in the main event.

Mir, Sam Alvey, Marion Reneau and Matt Dwyer earned $50,000 UFC Fight Night 61 fight-night bonuses.

UFC Fight Night 61 drew an announced attendance of 5,080. UFC officials didn’t disclose the live-gate tally.

Betting favorites went 1-10 on the card.

UFC Fight Night 61’s 10 underdog victories are the most in a FightMetric-tracked UFC, PRIDE, Strikeforce, WEC, EliteXC or DREAM event.

Total fight time for the 11-bout card was 1:28:21.

Main card

Antonio Silva and Frank Mir

Mir snapped a career-worst four-fight losing skid for his first victory since Dec. 10, 2011 – a span of 1,170 days.

Mir earned his 15th UFC heavyweight victory, the most in divisional history.

Mir earned his first knockout victory since Sept. 25, 2010 – a span of 1,611 days (more than four years) and seven fights.

Mir’s 12 stoppage victories in UFC heavyweight competition are the most in divisional history.

Mir’s 12 stoppage victories in UFC competition are the fourth most in history behind Anderson Silva (14), Vitor Belfort (13) and Matt Hughes (13).

Mir’s nine first-round stoppage victories in UFC competition are the most in modern history.

Silva fell to 2-5-1 in his past eight bouts. He’s winless in his past four fights.

Silva has suffered six of his seven career losses by first-round knockout.

Michael Johnson’s (16-8 MMA, 8-4 UFC) four-fight UFC winning streak is tied for the fifth-longest active streak in the lightweight division behind Donald Cerrone (seven), Khabib Nurmagomedov (six), Anthony Pettis (five) and T.J. Grant (five).

Michael Johnson

Johnson has earned five of his eight UFC victories by decision.

Edson Barboza (15-3 MMA, 9-3 UFC) suffered the first decision loss of his career.

Alvey (25-6 MMA, 2-1 UFC) has earned both of his UFC victories by first-round knockout.

Cezar Ferreira (8-4 MMA, 4-2 UFC) has suffered both of his UFC losses by knockout.

Rustam Khabilov (17-3 MMA, 3-2 UFC) suffered back-to-back losses for the first time in his career.

Frankie Saenz (10-2 MMA, 2-0 UFC) extended his career-high winning streak to six fights.

Saenz has earned both of his UFC victories by decision.

Iuri Alcantara (31-5 MMA, 6-3 UFC) fell to 5-2 with one no-contest since he dropped to the UFC bantamweight division in January 2013.

Alcantara has suffered all three of his UFC losses by decision.

Santiago Ponzinibbio (20-2 MMA, 2-1 UFC) earned his first decision victory since Oct. 14, 2010 – a span of 1,592 days (more than four years) and 12 fights.

Sean Strickland (15-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC) had his 15-fight winning streak snapped for the first defeat of his career.

Preliminary card

Marion Reneau

Reneau (6-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) earned her second UFC victory in a 50-day span.

Reneau has earned five of her six career victories by stoppage.

Reneau’s triangle-choke-submission victory was just the fourth finish of its kind in the past 52 UFC events.

Reneau earned just the fifth submission finish in UFC women’s bantamweight history.

Reneau’s submission victory at the 1:54 mark of Round 1 marked the fastest submission finish in UFC women’s bantamweight history. It was also the third fastest finish overall behind Ronda Rousey’s knockout victories at UFC 175 and UFC 170.

Jessica Andrade (12-4 MMA, 3-2 UFC) suffered the first submission loss of her career.

Dwyer (8-2 MMA, 1-1 UFC) has earned all eight of his career victories by knockout.

Tiago Trator and Mike De La Torre

Mike De La Torre (13-4 MMA, 1-1 UFC) has earned 12 of his 13 career victories by stoppage.

Tiago Trator (19-5-2 MMA, 1-1 UFC) suffered the first knockout loss of his career.

Douglas Silva (23-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) was successful in his UFC bantamweight debut.

Silva earned his first decision victory since Dec. 7, 2011 – a span of 1,169 days (more than three years) and nine fights.

Ivan Jorge (26-4 MMA, 2-1 UFC) has earned both his UFC victories by decision.

Josh Shockley (11-4 MMA, 0-2 UFC) suffered the first decision loss of his career.

T.J. Waldburger (16-9 MMA, 4-4 UFC) vs. Wendell Oliveira (24-8 MMA, 0-1 UFC) was removed from the event on weigh-in day when Waldburger fell ill. The cancelation marked the third consecutive event in which a fight has been removed within 48 hours of the event start time.

For more on UFC Fight Night 61, check out the UFC Events section of the site.

FightMetric research analyst and live statistics producer Michael Carroll contributed to this story. Follow him on Twitter @MJCflipdascript.