Photos: Carl Frampton, Leo Santa Cruz Face To Face in NYC

Featherweight World Champion Leo Santa Cruz (32-0-1, 18 KOs) will defend his title against Irish superstar Carl Frampton (22-0, 14 KOs) in the main event of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® (9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT) on Saturday, July 30 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Their world championship fight marks both Santa Cruz and Frampton's first visit to New York City as they headline a full card of action. Today (Tuesday, July 26), the two met face-to-face for the first time at The Empire State Building in New York City on the 86th floor Observatory. Soaring 1,454 feet above Midtown Manhattan (from base to antenna), the Empire State Building is the “World’s Most Famous Building.” 

Three-division world champion Santa Cruz ranks as one of the world's top-three fighters in four key categories - Total Punches Thrown, Landed, Connect Percentage and Power Punches Landed (all per round, per CompuBox).  

The numbers prove that Santa Cruz is one of the best punchers in the world, topping Gennady Golovkin, Manny Pacquiao and ranking only second by a small margin to pound-for-pound champ Roman "Chocolatito"  Gonzalez in Power Punches Landed Per Round.

More impressively, Santa Cruz ranks as the world's best in the Plus/Minus category that was dominated for years by pound-for-pound champ Floyd Mayweather.  In that statistical measure, which is determined by subtracting opponents connect percentage from a fighter's connect percentage, Santa Cruz stands tall at No. 1 (+15.8% per fight), followed by Andre Ward (+15.3), Golovkin (+15.2), Erislandy Lara (+14.5), Terence Crawford (+13.2), Roman Gonzalez (+12.5) and Canelo Alvarez (+12).

While Santa Cruz is a statistical leader in five key categories, defending Santa Cruz's biggest strength - power punches - is one of Frampton's greatest attributes.  In his last six fights, Frampton's opponents landed just 29.2 percent of their power punches.  Comparatively, Santa Cruz landed an astonishing 46.9 percent of his power shots over his last eight fights. Can both fighters continue at this impressive rate when they faceoff on July 30?

Frampton ranks in the top 10 of Opponents Power Punches Connected, meaning he stops his opponents from landing power shots at a staggering rate.  Frampton ranks No. 10 in a group that features Guillermo Rigondeaux, Lara, Wladimir Klitschko, Ward and Crawford.

Additionally, Frampton is the second best in the world in Average Number Of Jabs Thrown Per Round, behind leader Jesus Cuellar and well ahead of Rigondeaux (No. 5), Golovkin (No. 6), Crawford (No. 7) and Kell Brook (No. 8). Santa Cruz is also a statistical leader in this category, ranking No. 9 in the world.