This coming Saturday at UFC 155 in Las Vegas, the UFC heavyweight title picture will close out a full year of mixed martial arts when champion Junior dos Santos faces Cain Velasquez.
Their first match wasn’t under the best of circumstances, as a lengthy build-up to the UFC’s single-fight event on Fox ended in an anti-climatic first-round flash knockout.
Hopefully, this rematch will provide a more complex victory for either fighter this time around, especially now that Velasquez is entering the bout fully recovered from an ACL injury that threatened to sideline him in November last year.
With that in mind, here’s five interesting key facts that UFC fans should keep in mind during the lead-up to the titanic heavyweight rematch.