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Main Welterweight

Michael Chiesa vs Kevin Holland

Statlab take

baseline
Lean Confidence: High
Michael Chiesa
Kevin Holland
45% 55%
Why
76"
Reach
Δ 6"
81"
36
Age
Δ 5y
31
20-8
Career record
Δ 5 pp
30-15
L2
Current streak
W1
17
UFC fights in our DB
18

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
Submission · Round 1
Chiesa: 4 sig / 0 TD · Holland: 9 sig / 0 TD
Michael Chiesa
Kevin Holland
29
Sig strikes landed
33
52
Sig strikes attempted
70
50
Total strikes landed
53
2.0
Takedowns landed
0.3
6.0
Takedowns attempted
0.0
-0.10
Knockdowns
0.40
244s
Control time
29s
Method
Decision
42%
KO/TKO
28%
Submission
30%

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
L2

Michael Chiesa

"Maverick"
20-8
Career record
Height
73"
Reach
76"
Stance
Southpaw
Age
36
In our database 17 fights · 11-6
Last 5
L UFC Fight Night: Vieira vs. Tate
L UFC 265: Lewis vs. Gane
W UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Mag…
W UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Do…
W UFC 239: Jones vs. Santos
Blue corner
W1

Kevin Holland

"Trailblazer"
30-15 (1 NC)
Career record
Height
75"
Reach
81"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
31
In our database 18 fights · 11-6
Last 5
W UFC 287: Pereira vs. Adesanya 2
L UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. H…
L UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson
W UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Emm…
W UFC 272: Covington vs. Masvidal