UFC Fight Night 103 post-fight facts: A thousand strikes later, B.J. Penn finally suffers a knockdown

Depending on your rooting preferences, Sunday’s UFC Fight Night 103 event ended in either exciting or disheartening fashion when Yair Rodriguez earned a marquee victory in his young career with a second-round TKO of MMA legend B.J. Penn.

Rodriguez (10-1 MMA, 6-0 UFC) stayed perfect inside the UFC octagon when he used his flashy and devastating striking to break down UFC Hall of Famer Penn (16-11-2 MMA, 12-10-2 UFC) and set up the fight-ending stoppage in the FS1-televised featherweight headliner at Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix.

“Pantera” wasn’t the only one to earn a victory of note at the event, though. For more, check out 45 post-fight facts about UFC Fight Night 103.

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General

Yair Rodriguez

The UFC-Reebok Athlete Outfitting payout for the event totaled $105,000.

Debuting fighters went 1-1 at the event.

Rodriguez, Aleksei Oleinik, Augusto Mendes and Frankie Saenz earned $50,000 UFC Fight Night 103 fight-night bonuses.

UFC Fight Night 103 drew an announced attendance of 11,589 for a live gate of $913,372.75.

Betting favorites went 10-2 on the card.

Total fight time for the 12-bout card was 2:09:27.

Main card

Yair Rodriguez and B.J. Penn

Rodriguez’s six-fight UFC winning streak in featherweight competition is the third longest active streak in the division behind interim champ Max Holloway (nine) and former titleholder Conor McGregor (seven).

Rodriguez extended his winning streak to eight fights. He hasn’t suffered a defeat since December 2012.

Rodriguez has earned both his UFC stoppage victories by knockout.

Rodriguez has out-struck all five opponents he’s faced in UFC competition.

Rodriguez has earned a fight-night bonus in each of his past three UFC appearances.

B.J. Penn

Penn was unsuccessful in what was his first bout since July 2014.

Penn suffered his fourth consecutive loss to extend the longest skid of his career. He hasn’t earned a victory since November 2010

Penn fell to 1-6-1 in his past eight UFC appearances dating back to April 2010.

Penn fell to 0-2 since he dropped to the UFC featherweight division in July 2014.

Penn suffered the first knockdown of his UFC career after absorbing a record 1,034 total strikes.

Penn’s four significant strikes landed marked the least of any contest in his 24-fight UFC career.

Joe Lauzon

Joe Lauzon’s (27-12 MMA, 14-9 UFC) 14 victories in UFC lightweight competition are tied for the fourth most in divisional history behind Jim Miller (16), Gleison Tibau (16) and Donald Cerrone (15).

Lauzon has alternated wins and losses over his past seven UFC appearances.

Lauzon earned just the second decision victory of his 39-fight career.

Lauzon’s 28 submission attempts in UFC competition are third most in company history behind Miller (35) and Chris Lytle (31).

Marcin Held (22-6 MMA, 0-2 UFC) has suffered five of his six career losses by decision.

Court McGee (18-6 MMA, 7-5 UFC) fell to 2-2 since he returned from a nearly two-year layoff in December 2015.

McGee fell to 4-3 since he dropped to the welterweight division in February 2013.

Sergio Pettis

Sergio Pettis (15-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC) improved to 3-1 since he dropped to the UFC flyweight division in March 2015.

Pettis’ three-fight UFC winning streak in flyweight competition is tied for the third longest active streak in the division behind champ Demetrious Johnson (11) and Joseph Benavidez (six).

Pettis has earned all six of his UFC victories by decision.

John Moraga (16-6 MMA, 5-5 UFC) suffered his third consecutive loss to extend the longest skid of his career. He hasn’t earned a victory since December 2014.

Preliminary card

Drakkar Klose

Devin Powell (8-2 MMA, 0-1 UFC), who dropped a decision to Drakkar Klose (7-0-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC), has suffered both of his career losses by decision.

Mendes (6-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) earned the first decision victory of his career.

Saenz (11-5 MMA, 3-3 UFC) suffered his third consecutive loss to extend the longest skid of his career. He hasn’t earned a victory since August 2015.

Aleksei Oleinik and wife, Tatiana Oleinik

Oleinik (51-10-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) earned the first Ezekiel choke victory in UFC history.

Oleinik has earned 41 of his 51 career victories by submission. He’s secured 36 of those finishes in Round 1.

Oleinik has earned his past 13 victories by stoppage. He’s secured nine of those finishes in the first round.

Oleinik has earned all three of his UFC victories by stoppage.

Viktor Pesta (10-4 MMA, 1-4 UFC) suffered his third consecutive loss to extend the longest skid of his career. He’s 1-4 in his past five fights overall and hasn’t earned a victory since January 2015.

Pesta has suffered three of his four career losses by stoppage.

Tony Martin

Tony Martin (11-3 MMA, 3-3 UFC) earned back-to-back victories for the first time in his UFC career.

Alex White (11-3 MMA, 2-3 UFC) was unsuccessful in his UFC lightweight debut.

Nina Ansaroff (7-5 MMA, 1-2 UFC) snapped a two-fight skid for her first victory since December 2013.

Jocelyn Jones-Lybarger (6-4 MMA, 0-3 UFC) suffered her third consecutive loss to extend the longest skid of her career. She hasn’t earned a victory since October 2015.

Jones-Lybarger suffered the first submission loss of her career.

Walt Harris

Walt Harris (9-5 MMA, 2-4 UFC) has earned all nine of his career victories by knockout.

Chase Sherman (9-3 MMA, 0-2 UFC) has suffered both of his career stoppage losses by knockout.

Bojan Mihajlovic (10-5 MMA, 0-2 UFC) has suffered both of his UFC losses by knockout.

Dmitrii Smoliakov (8-2 MMA, 0-2 UFC) suffered his second consecutive loss after starting his career on an eight-fight winning streak.

Smoliakov suffered the first knockout loss of his career.

For complete coverage of UFC Fight Night 103, 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.