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Soa Palelei vs Walt Harris

Statlab take

baseline
Heavy favorite Confidence: High
Soa Palelei
Walt Harris
83% 17%
Why
81"
Reach
Δ 4"
77"
37
Age
Δ 6y
31
22-6
Career record
Δ 24 pp
13-11
L1
Current streak
L2
4
UFC fights in our DB
2

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
Palelei: 24 sig / 1 TD · Harris: 22 sig / 0 TD
Soa Palelei
Walt Harris
26
Sig strikes landed
5
40
Sig strikes attempted
21
45
Total strikes landed
11
1.2
Takedowns landed
0.4
3.5
Takedowns attempted
0.6
0.20
Knockdowns
0.20
151s
Control time
43s
Method
Decision
20%
KO/TKO
70%
Submission
10%

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

Soa Palelei

"The Hulk"
22-6
Career record
Height
76"
Reach
81"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
37
In our database 4 fights · 3-1
Last 4
L UFC Fight Night: Te Huna vs Mar…
W UFC Fight Night: Brown vs Silva
W UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs Bigfoot
W UFC 164: Henderson vs Pettis 2
Blue corner
L2

Walt Harris

"The Big Ticket"
13-11 (1 NC)
Career record
Height
77"
Reach
77"
Stance
Southpaw
Age
31
In our database 2 fights · 0-2
Last 2
L UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Thomson
L The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rous…