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Gesias Cavalcante vs Justin Wilcox

Strikeforce - Overeem vs. Werdum ·American Airlines Center

Statlab take

baseline
Heavy favorite Confidence: High
Gesias Cavalcante
Justin Wilcox
71% 29%
Why
28
Age
Δ 4y
32
21-11-1
Career record
Δ 5 pp
15-7
L1
Current streak
W3
1
UFC fights in our DB
3

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
Could Not Continue · Round 2
Cavalcante: 11 sig / 0 TD · Wilcox: 27 sig / 0 TD
Gesias Cavalcante
Justin Wilcox
33
Sig strikes landed
38
86
Sig strikes attempted
82
56
Total strikes landed
45
2.3
Takedowns landed
1.5
7.0
Takedowns attempted
0.9
0.10
Knockdowns
0.50
166s
Control time
75s
Method
Decision
41%
KO/TKO
45%
Submission
14%

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
L1

Gesias Cavalcante

"JZ"
21-11-1 (2 NC)
Career record
Height
68"
Reach
71"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
28
In our database 1 fight · 0-1
Last 1
L Strikeforce - Diaz vs. Noons 2
Blue corner
W3

Justin Wilcox

"Silverback"
15-7 (1 NC)
Career record
Height
66"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
32
In our database 3 fights · 3-0
Last 3
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