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Brad Katona vs Jean Matsumoto

Statlab take

baseline
Heavy favorite Confidence: High
Brad Katona
Jean Matsumoto
33% 67%
Why
64"
Reach
Δ 4"
68"
33
Age
Δ 8y
25
17-5
Career record
Δ 13 pp
18-2
W1
Current streak
W1
7
UFC fights in our DB
1

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
Decision - Unanimous · Round 3
Katona: 89 sig / 3 TD · Matsumoto: 89 sig / 1 TD
Brad Katona
Jean Matsumoto
30
Sig strikes landed
42
51
Sig strikes attempted
84
50
Total strikes landed
58
1.0
Takedowns landed
1.4
3.8
Takedowns attempted
3.3
0.10
Knockdowns
0.20
145s
Control time
154s
Method
Decision
37%
KO/TKO
22%
Submission
41%

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

Brad Katona

"Superman"
17-5
Career record
Height
66"
Reach
65"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
33
In our database 7 fights · 4-3
Last 5
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Blue corner
W1

Jean Matsumoto

18-2
Career record
Height
66"
Reach
69"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
25
In our database 1 fight · 1-0
Last 1
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