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Beneil Dariush vs Evan Dunham

UFC 216: Ferguson vs. Lee ·T-Mobile Arena

Statlab take

baseline
Heavy favorite Confidence: High
Beneil Dariush
Evan Dunham
82% 18%
Why
72"
Reach
Δ 2"
70"
28
Age
Δ 7y
36
23-9-1
Career record
Δ 4 pp
19-9-1
L1
Current streak
W4
11
UFC fights in our DB
15

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 - Majority · Round 3
Dariush: 81 sig / 0 TD · Dunham: 36 sig / 1 TD
Beneil Dariush
Evan Dunham
59
Sig strikes landed
52
134
Sig strikes attempted
119
72
Total strikes landed
76
0.8
Takedowns landed
1.2
2.9
Takedowns attempted
3.5
0.40
Knockdowns
0.10
90s
Control time
154s
Method
Decision
68%
KO/TKO
23%
Submission
9%

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

Beneil Dariush

23-9-1
Career record
Height
70"
Reach
72"
Stance
Southpaw
Age
28
In our database 11 fights · 8-3
Last 5
L UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Ga…
W UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. …
W UFC 199: Rockhold vs. Bisping 2
L UFC on FOX: Teixeira vs Evans
W UFC Fight Night: Teixeira vs Sa…
Blue corner
W4

Evan Dunham

19-9-1
Career record
Height
70"
Reach
70"
Stance
Southpaw
Age
36
In our database 15 fights · 9-6
Last 5
W UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Jo…
W The Ultimate Fighter: Team McGr…
W UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs Lei…
W UFC 182: Jones vs Cormier
L UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs Mill…