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🏆 Title fight Main Heavyweight

Stipe Miocic vs Daniel Cormier

UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier ·T-Mobile Arena

Statlab take

baseline
Edge Confidence: High
Stipe Miocic
Daniel Cormier
59% 41%
Why
80"
Reach
Δ 8"
72"
36
Age
Δ 3y
39
21-5
Career record
Δ 8 pp
23-3
W6
Current streak
W5
14
UFC fights in our DB
11

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
Miocic: 24 sig / 1 TD · Cormier: 25 sig / 0 TD
Stipe Miocic
Daniel Cormier
63
Sig strikes landed
61
117
Sig strikes attempted
126
93
Total strikes landed
94
1.2
Takedowns landed
2.0
3.2
Takedowns attempted
6.1
0.30
Knockdowns
0.10
117s
Control time
171s
Method
Decision
35%
KO/TKO
46%
Submission
19%

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
W6

Stipe Miocic

21-5
Career record
Height
76"
Reach
80"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
36
In our database 14 fights · 12-2
Last 5
W UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou
W UFC 211: Miocic vs. Dos Santos
W UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem
W UFC 198: Werdum vs Miocic
W UFC 195: Lawler vs Condit
Blue corner
W5

Daniel Cormier

"DC"
23-3 (1 NC)
Career record
Height
71"
Reach
73"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
39
In our database 11 fights · 9-1
Last 5
W UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou
W UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2
W UFC 200: Tate vs Nunes
W UFC 192: Cormier vs Gustafsson
W UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier