Prelims1
Bantamweight
Youssef Zalal vs Da'Mon Blackshear
UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Cruz
·Pechanga Arena
Statlab take
baseline
Heavy favorite
Confidence: High
Youssef Zalal
Da'Mon Blackshear
70%
30%
Why
72"
Reach
72"
26
Age
Δ 2y
28
L3
Current streak
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6
UFC fights in our DB
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Logistic-regression model trained on ~5,000 UFC/DWCS fights since 2016 (71.9% test accuracy). The "Why" panel shows interpretable inputs; the headline probability comes from the model.
Statlab projections
Actual result
Decision - Majority · Round 3
Zalal: 63 sig / 1 TD ·
Blackshear: 27 sig / 1 TD
Youssef Zalal
Da'Mon Blackshear
41
Sig strikes landed
34
84
Sig strikes attempted
74
68
Total strikes landed
53
2.2
Takedowns landed
1.3
5.5
Takedowns attempted
2.8
0.20
Knockdowns
0.30
226s
Control time
112s
Method
Decision
61%
KO/TKO
16%
Submission
23%
Stat regressor (GBT MultiOutput) trained on 8348 fighter-fight rows. Per-stat MAE vs naive-mean baseline: SigStrikesLanded: 25.4 (naive 28.2); SigStrikesAttempted: 52.3 (naive 59.4); TakedownsLanded: 1.1 (naive 1.3); TakedownsAttempted: 2.5 (naive 3.0); Knockdowns: 0.3 (naive 0.3); ControlTimeSeconds: 113.9 (naive 131.8); TotalStrikesLanded: 33.8 (naive 37.1).
Red corner
L3
Youssef Zalal
"The Moroccan Devil"
18-7-1
Career record
Height
70"
Reach
72"
Stance
Switch
Age
26
In our database
6 fights · 3-3
Last 5
L
UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs…
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UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Vo…
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L
UFC Fight Night: Moraes vs. San…
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W
UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Olei…
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W
UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Ho…
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Blue corner
Da'Mon Blackshear
"The Monster"
0-0
Career record
Height
70"
Reach
72"
Stance
Switch
Age
28