🏆 Title fight
Main
Middleweight
Anderson Silva vs Vitor Belfort
UFC 126: Silva vs Belfort
·Mandalay Bay Events Center
Statlab take
baseline
Heavy favorite
Confidence: High
Anderson Silva
Vitor Belfort
84%
16%
Why
77"
Reach
Δ 3"
74"
36
Age
Δ 2y
34
W2
Current streak
—
2
UFC fights in our DB
0
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
Actual result
KO/TKO · Round 1
Silva: 6 sig / 0 TD ·
Belfort: 6 sig / 0 TD
Anderson Silva
Vitor Belfort
52
Sig strikes landed
41
112
Sig strikes attempted
97
66
Total strikes landed
52
0.5
Takedowns landed
1.0
1.1
Takedowns attempted
3.2
0.50
Knockdowns
0.20
87s
Control time
146s
Method
Decision
32%
KO/TKO
52%
Submission
17%
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
W2
Anderson Silva
"The Spider"
35-11
(1 NC)
Career record
Height
74"
Reach
77"
Stance
Southpaw
Age
36
In our database
2 fights · 2-0
Last 2
W
UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen
—
W
UFC 112: Invincible
—
Blue corner
Vitor Belfort
"The Phenom"
0-0
Career record
Height
72"
Reach
74"
Stance
Southpaw
Age
34