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Yao Zhikui vs Jenel Lausa

UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Brunson ·Rod Laver Arena
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Statlab take

baseline
Lean Confidence: High
Yao Zhikui
Jenel Lausa
47% 53%
Why
64"
Reach
Δ 4"
68"
26
Age
Δ 2y
28
L1
Current streak
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3
UFC fights in our DB
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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
Decision - Unanimous · Round 3
Zhikui: 29 sig / 1 TD · Lausa: 56 sig / 1 TD
Yao Zhikui
Jenel Lausa
22
Sig strikes landed
39
60
Sig strikes attempted
68
38
Total strikes landed
58
0.9
Takedowns landed
0.7
3.8
Takedowns attempted
1.5
0.00
Knockdowns
0.50
131s
Control time
158s
Method
Decision
60%
KO/TKO
26%
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

Yao Zhikui

"The Conqueror"
2-5
Career record
Height
65"
Reach
65"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
26
In our database 3 fights · 1-2
Last 3
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Blue corner

Jenel Lausa

0-0
Career record
Height
65"
Reach
69"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
28