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Edmen Shahbazyan vs Gerald Meerschaert

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Statlab take

baseline
Clear edge Confidence: High
Edmen Shahbazyan
Gerald Meerschaert
62% 38%
Why
74"
Reach
Δ 4"
78"
27
Age
Δ 10y
37
17-5
Career record
Δ 14 pp
38-22
W1
Current streak
W1
10
UFC fights in our DB
20

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 2
Shahbazyan: 48 sig / 0 TD · Meerschaert: 21 sig / 1 TD
Edmen Shahbazyan
Gerald Meerschaert
37
Sig strikes landed
29
71
Sig strikes attempted
52
48
Total strikes landed
39
0.8
Takedowns landed
0.8
1.0
Takedowns attempted
2.3
0.30
Knockdowns
0.30
123s
Control time
101s
Method
Decision
23%
KO/TKO
41%
Submission
36%

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
W1

Edmen Shahbazyan

"The Golden Boy"
17-5
Career record
Height
74"
Reach
74"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
27
In our database 10 fights · 6-4
Last 5
W UFC Fight Night: Ribas vs. Nama…
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L UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Hill
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W UFC 282: Blachowicz vs. Ankalaev
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L UFC 268: Usman vs. Covington 2
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Blue corner
W1

Gerald Meerschaert

"GM3"
38-22
Career record
Height
73"
Reach
78"
Stance
Southpaw
Age
37
In our database 20 fights · 11-9
Last 5
W UFC Fight Night: Tuivasa vs. Ty…
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L UFC 292: Sterling vs. O'Malley
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L UFC 287: Pereira vs. Adesanya 2
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W UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Cruz
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L UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Vera
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