The 46th and final UFC event of the year takes place Saturday as UFC Fight Night 58 goes down at Jose Correa Arena in Barueri, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Two of the world’s top middleweight contenders will look two close out 2014 with a bang. Former UFC champion Lyoto Machida (21-5 MMA, 13-5 UFC) fights for the first time since his failed bid at the 185-pound title earlier this year when he faces surging contender C.B. Dollaway (15-5 MMA, 9-5 UFC), who has won four of his past five.

As has become custom in Brazil, the card is littered with local talent. More than half the scheduled fighters hail from the country, and they’ll try to add to the 96-48 lead in UFC competition when facing foreign talent.

Check below for 55 pre-fight facts about UFC Fight Night 58.

Main event

Machida headlines a UFC card for the ninth time in his career. To date, he’s 4-4 in main events.

Machida is 2-1 since he dropped to the UFC middleweight division in October 2013.

Machida is 5-5 in his past 10 UFC appearances.

Machida has earned eight career victories against fighters who once held a world championship in UFC, Strikeforce or PRIDE.

Machida’s 12 knockdowns landed in his UFC career are tied with Junior Dos Santos for the fourth most in company history behind Anderson Silva (17), Chuck Liddell (14) and Melvin Guillard (13).

Machida is one of eight fighters in UFC history to earn two or more knockout victories stemming from a head kick. He accomplished the feat against Mark Munoz at UFC Fight Night 31 and Randy Couture at UFC 129.

Machida has landed 63.6 percent of his takedown attempts in his UFC career, the third highest rate among active fighters in the company behind Robbie Lawler (80 percent) and Nate Marquardt (74.4 percent).

Machida absorbed just 1.41 significant strikes per minute of fighting in 205-pound competition, the third lowest rate in UFC light-heavyweight history.

Dollaway headlines a UFC event for the first time in his more than six-year tenure with the company.

Dollaway is 4-1 in his past five UFC appearances. His lone defeat in that span is a split-decision loss to Tim Boetsch at UFC 166.

Dollaway’s nine UFC middleweight victories are tied for the sixth most in divisional history behind Silva (13), Yushin Okami (13), Chris Leben (12), Michael Bisping (10) and Marquardt (10).

Dollaway has landed 29 takedowns in UFC middleweight competition, the third most in divisional history behind Chael Sonnen (35) and Ed Herman (30).

Dollaway has landed 54.7 percent of his takedown attempts in UFC middleweight competition, the third highest rate among active fighters in the weight class behind Marquardt (74.4 percent) and champion Chris Weidman (57.1 percent).

Dollaway’s Peruvian necktie submission of Jesse Taylor at UFC Fight Night 14 stands as the only submission of its kind in UFC history.

Dollaway has been awarded four fight-night bonuses in his UFC career, the fourth most of any middleweight in company history behind Silva (10), Leben (six) and Herman (four).

Co-main event

Renan Barao (32-2 MMA, 7-1 UFC) enters the event on the heels of his first professional loss since April 2005.

Barao’s seven victories in UFC bantamweight competition are tied for the second most in divisional history behind Urijah Faber (eight). His nine wins when including WEC competition are tied for the third most in the combined history of the two organizations behind Dominick Cruz (10) and Scott Jorgensen (10).

Barao’s four stoppage wins in the UFC bantamweight division are the third most in divisional history behind Faber (six) and T.J. Dillashaw (five). His six stoppage wins when including WEC competition are the second most in the combined history of the two organizations behind Faber (seven).

Barao’s takedown defense rate of 100 percent in his UFC career is highest in company history. He is the only fighter in UFC history to defend the first 20 takedowns attempted against him/her under the UFC banner.

Barao is one of just three fighters in UFC history to earn a knockout stemming from a spinning back kick. He stopped Eddie Wineland with the technique at UFC 165. Barao is the only one of the three to finish a fight by landing the technique to the head.

Barao has been awarded four fight-night bonuses during his UFC career and is tied the second most fight-night bonuses in bantamweight history behind Brad Pickett (five).

Mitch Gagnon’s (12-2 MMA, 4-1 UFC) four-fight UFC winning streak is the second longest active streak in the bantamweight division behind Raphael Assuncao (seven).

Gagnon has finished his opponent by submission in 11 of his 12 career victories. Ten of those finishes came inside the first round, all by rear-naked or guillotine choke.

Gagnon’s three submission victories in UFC bantamweight competition are tied for the second most in divisional history behind Urijah Faber (six).

Gagnon attempts 3.5 submissions per 15 minutes of fighting, the highest rate among active UFC bantamweights and second highest in divisional history behind John Albert (6.1).

Gagnon absorbs just 1.32 significant strikes per minute of fighting, the lowest rate among active UFC bantamweights and second lowest in divisional history behind Chico Camus (1.31).

Gagnon’s takedown defense rate of 85.7 percent in UFC bantamweight competition is third highest in divisional history behind Barao (100 percent) and Wineland (92 percent).

Remaining main card

Antonio Carlos Jr. (4-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) drops to the UFC light-heavyweight division after winning at heavyweight in his promotional debut in May.

Patrick Cummins (6-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC) completed 10 takedowns against Kyle Kingsbury at UFC on FOX 12, the second most ever in a light-heavyweight bout. Rodney Wallace holds the record with 11 takedowns against Jared Hamman at UFC 111.

Rashid Magomedov (17-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) enters the event on a 10-fight winning streak. He has not suffered a defeat since April 2010.

Erick Silva (16-5 MMA, 4-4 UFC) has alternated wins and losses throughout his eight-fight UFC career. He was defeated in his most recent bout.

Silva has earned all four of his UFC victories by first-round stoppage.

Silva’s average fight time of 5:22 in UFC welterweight competition is second lowest among active fighters in the weight class behind Joe Riggs (5:02).

Silva landed all 18 significant strikes thrown in his 52-second knockout of Takenori Sato at UFC Fight Night 36. That’s the most in UFC history for a fighter who didn’t miss a strike. Anderson Silva, who went 13-for-13 against James Irvin at UFC Fight Night 14, held the previous record.

Silva is the only competitor in UFC history to have three fights with the organization without absorbing a single strike. He accomplished the feat against Sato, Jason High at UFC on FUEL TV 10 and Carlo Prater at UFC 142.

Silva is one of eleven fighters in modern UFC history to register two knockout victories in less than one minute each, as he did against Sato and Luis Ramos at UFC 134.

Silva attempts 2.1 submissions per 15 minutes of fighting, the second highest rate among active UFC welterweights behind TJ Waldburger (4.8).

Silva has earned been awarded a fight-night bonus in five of his past six UFC bouts.

Mike Rhodes (6-3 MMA, 0-2 UFC) has suffered both of his UFC losses by decision.

Tom Niinimaki (21-7-1 MMA, 1-2 UFC) has suffered both of his UFC losses by first-round submission.

Preliminary card

Marcos Rogerio de Lima (12-2-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) has earned nine of his 12 career victories by knockout. Eight of those stoppages have come in the first round.

De Lima recorded the second fastest knockout by a debuting UFC heavyweight with his 20-second finish of Richarson Moreira at the TUF Brazil 3 Finale. Todd Duffee holds the record with his seven-second knockout of Tim Hague at UFC 102.

Igor Pokrajac (25-11 MMA, 4-6 UFC) returns to the octagon after a 406-day layoff, the longest of his professional career dating back to his February 2003 debut.

Pokrajac enters the event on a four-fight winless streak. He has not registered a victory since May 2012.

Pokrajac was outlanded by 57 significant strikes when he faced Fabio Maldonado at UFC on FUEL TV 3, but still won a decision. That’s the largest disparity in UFC history for a fighter to win a decision.

Daniel Sarafian (8-5 MMA, 1-3 UFC) returns to the UFC middleweight division after an unsuccessful one-fight venture at welterweight.

Darren Elkins (18-4 MMA, 8-3 UFC) makes his second UFC appearance in a 56-day stretch. He defeated Lucas Martins by split decision at UFC 179 in October.

Elkins is 7-2 since he dropped to the UFC featherweight division in June 2011.

Elkins will compete in his 10th UFC featherweight bout, the second most appearances in divisional history behind Dustin Poirier (11).

Elkins’ total fight time of 1:49:14 in UFC featherweight competition is the second most in divisional history behind champion Jose Aldo (2:26:59).

Elkins’ seven victories in UFC featherweight competition are tied for the second most in divisional history behind Poirier (eight).

Elkins has landed 752 total strikes in UFC featherweight competition, the most in divisional history.

Elkins’ 14 submission attempts in UFC featherweight competition are the most in divisional history. He attempts 19 submissions per 15 minutes of fighting, the second highest rate in divisional history behind Charles Oliveira (2.6) and Daniel Pineda (2.0).

Yuta Sasaki (18-1-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) enters the event on a 12-fight unbeaten streak. That includes a 66-second submission of Roland Delorme in his UFC debut in August.

Sasaki’s submission of Delorme at the 1:06 mark of Round 1 at UFC Fight Night 48 marked the fifth fastest submission finish in UFC/WEC bantamweight history. It also marked the second fastest finish by any debuting UFC 135-pound fighter.

Sasaki and his opponent Leandro Issa (12-4 MMA, 1-1 UFC) were both awarded fight-night bonuses in their most recent UFC appearances.

Hacran Dias (21-3-1 MMA, 1-2 UFC) enters the event on the first two-fight losing streak of his career. He has not registered a victory since June 2012.

Tim Means (21-6-1 MMA, 3-3 UFC) is 1-1 since he returned to the UFC for a second stint in May.

Marcio Alexandre Jr. (12-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) drops to the UFC welterweight division after losing his UFC debut in a middleweight contest.

Vitor Miranda (9-4 MMA, 0-1 UFC) drops two weight classes to the UFC middleweight division after losing at heavyweight in his promotional debut in May.

Jake Collier (8-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) has earned seven of his eight career victories by stoppage. He’s earned six of those finishes in the first round.

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FightMetric (www.fightmetric.com) research analyst and live statistics producer Michael Carroll contributed to this story. Follow him on Twitter @MJCflipdascript (www.twitter.com/mjcflipdascript).