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Vitor Belfort vs Gegard Mousasi

UFC 204: Bisping vs. Henderson ·Manchester Arena

Statlab take

baseline
Heavy favorite Confidence: High
Vitor Belfort
Gegard Mousasi
7% 93%
Why
74"
Reach
Δ 2"
76"
40
Age
Δ 8y
31
26-15
Career record
Δ 21 pp
43-6-2
L1
Current streak
W2
10
UFC fights in our DB
9

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
Belfort: 8 sig / 0 TD · Mousasi: 57 sig / 1 TD
Vitor Belfort
Gegard Mousasi
16
Sig strikes landed
35
49
Sig strikes attempted
69
22
Total strikes landed
50
0.4
Takedowns landed
0.8
0.9
Takedowns attempted
1.6
0.20
Knockdowns
0.30
29s
Control time
119s
Method
Decision
18%
KO/TKO
68%
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

Vitor Belfort

"The Phenom"
26-15 (1 NC)
Career record
Height
72"
Reach
74"
Stance
Southpaw
Age
40
In our database 10 fights · 6-4
Last 5
L UFC 198: Werdum vs Miocic
W UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs Hen…
L UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier
W UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs Hen…
W UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Rockhold
Blue corner
W2

Gegard Mousasi

43-6-2
Career record
Height
74"
Reach
76"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
31
In our database 9 fights · 6-3
Last 5
W UFC 200: Tate vs Nunes
W UFC Fight Night: Silva vs Bispi…
L UFC Fight Night: Barnett vs Nel…
W UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs Faber
W UFC on FOX: Gustafsson vs Johns…