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Islam Makhachev vs Leo Kuntz

UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier ·MGM Grand Garden Arena

Statlab take

baseline
Heavy favorite Confidence: High
Islam Makhachev
Leo Kuntz
88% 12%
Why
24
Age
Δ 8y
32

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 2
Makhachev: 32 sig / 3 TD · Kuntz: 7 sig / 0 TD
Islam Makhachev
Leo Kuntz
40
Sig strikes landed
30
81
Sig strikes attempted
69
59
Total strikes landed
46
1.4
Takedowns landed
0.7
2.7
Takedowns attempted
2.0
0.40
Knockdowns
0.20
186s
Control time
86s
Method
Decision
47%
KO/TKO
36%
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

Islam Makhachev

0-0
Career record
Height
70"
Reach
71"
Stance
Southpaw
Age
24
Blue corner

Leo Kuntz

"The Lion"
0-0
Career record
Height
70"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
32