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Chad Mendes vs Anthony Morrison

WEC 48: Aldo vs. Faber ·Sleep Train Arena

Statlab take

baseline
Heavy favorite Confidence: High
Chad Mendes
Anthony Morrison
82% 18%
Why
25
Age
Δ 1y
26
19-5
Career record
Δ 19 pp
20-13
W1
Current streak
L1
1
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
Submission · Round 1
Mendes: 2 sig / 1 TD · Morrison: 5 sig / 0 TD
Chad Mendes
Anthony Morrison
21
Sig strikes landed
9
47
Sig strikes attempted
40
44
Total strikes landed
35
2.7
Takedowns landed
1.5
4.0
Takedowns attempted
4.2
0.20
Knockdowns
0.40
301s
Control time
122s
Method
Decision
41%
KO/TKO
27%
Submission
32%

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

Chad Mendes

"Money"
19-5
Career record
Height
66"
Reach
66"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
25
In our database 1 fight · 1-0
Last 1
W WEC 47: Bowles vs. Cruz
Blue corner
L1

Anthony Morrison

"Cheesesteak"
20-13 (1 NC)
Career record
Height
67"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
26
In our database 1 fight · 0-1
Last 1
L WEC 46: Varner vs. Henderson