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Islam Makhachev vs Gleison Tibau

Statlab take

baseline
Heavy favorite Confidence: High
Islam Makhachev
Gleison Tibau
86% 14%
Why
70"
Reach
Δ 0"
71"
26
Age
Δ 8y
34
29-1
Career record
Δ 28 pp
33-15
W2
Current streak
L2
4
UFC fights in our DB
16

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 1
Makhachev: 3 sig / 0 TD · Tibau: 2 sig / 0 TD
Islam Makhachev
Gleison Tibau
30
Sig strikes landed
6
62
Sig strikes attempted
32
50
Total strikes landed
22
1.7
Takedowns landed
0.1
3.1
Takedowns attempted
1.1
0.30
Knockdowns
0.10
244s
Control time
68s
Method
Decision
52%
KO/TKO
26%
Submission
22%

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
W2

Islam Makhachev

29-1
Career record
Height
70"
Reach
71"
Stance
Southpaw
Age
26
In our database 4 fights · 3-1
Last 4
W UFC 208: Holm vs. De Randamie
W UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Jo…
L UFC 192: Cormier vs Gustafsson
W UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier
Blue corner
L2

Gleison Tibau

33-15
Career record
Height
70"
Reach
71"
Stance
Southpaw
Age
34
In our database 16 fights · 10-6
Last 5
L UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs Hen…
L UFC 184: Rousey vs Zingano
W UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs Si…
W UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs Arl…
W UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs Mill…