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Diego Ferreira vs Michael Johnson

Statlab take

baseline
Heavy favorite Confidence: High
Diego Ferreira
Michael Johnson
72% 28%
Why
74"
Reach
Δ 0"
74"
38
Age
Δ 1y
37
19-8
Career record
Δ 14 pp
26-20
L3
Current streak
W1
13
UFC fights in our DB
27

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

Method classifier: 0.55 accuracy on 2083 fights
Actual result
KO/TKO · Round 2
Ferreira: 30 sig / 0 TD · Johnson: 32 sig / 0 TD
Diego Ferreira
Michael Johnson
51
Sig strikes landed
63
135
Sig strikes attempted
129
59
Total strikes landed
73
0.6
Takedowns landed
0.6
2.4
Takedowns attempted
2.1
0.30
Knockdowns
0.50
78s
Control time
66s
Method
Decision
64%
KO/TKO
27%
Submission
9%

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

Diego Ferreira

19-8
Career record
Height
69"
Reach
74"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
38
In our database 13 fights · 8-5
Last 5
L UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Dauk…
L UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. …
L UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Vo…
W UFC 246: McGregor vs. Cowboy
W UFC 242: Khabib vs. Poirier
Blue corner
W1

Michael Johnson

"The Menace"
26-20
Career record
Height
70"
Reach
74"
Stance
Southpaw
Age
37
In our database 27 fights · 13-14
Last 5
W UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. H…
L UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. …
W UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs.…
L UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Vo…
L UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Teix…