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Mike Easton vs Byron Bloodworth

UFC Live: Cruz vs Johnson ·Capital One Arena

Statlab take

baseline
Heavy favorite Confidence: High
Mike Easton
Byron Bloodworth
67% 33%
Why
28
Age
Δ 0y
28

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
KO/TKO · Round 2
Easton: 31 sig / 0 TD · Bloodworth: 17 sig / 0 TD
Mike Easton
Byron Bloodworth
37
Sig strikes landed
33
77
Sig strikes attempted
71
54
Total strikes landed
43
1.3
Takedowns landed
0.6
2.1
Takedowns attempted
1.9
0.30
Knockdowns
0.20
162s
Control time
90s
Method
Decision
43%
KO/TKO
39%
Submission
18%

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

Mike Easton

"The Hulk"
0-0
Career record
Height
66"
Reach
70"
Stance
Southpaw
Age
28
Blue corner

Byron Bloodworth

0-0
Career record
Height
68"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
28