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Joseph Benavidez vs Dustin Ortiz

Statlab take

baseline
Heavy favorite Confidence: High
Joseph Benavidez
Dustin Ortiz
69% 31%
Why
65"
Reach
65"
34
Age
Δ 4y
30
29-8
Career record
Δ 7 pp
20-8
W1
Current streak
W3
16
UFC fights in our DB
13

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
Benavidez: 21 sig / 7 TD · Ortiz: 49 sig / 3 TD
Joseph Benavidez
Dustin Ortiz
50
Sig strikes landed
45
114
Sig strikes attempted
115
67
Total strikes landed
65
1.2
Takedowns landed
1.6
2.5
Takedowns attempted
5.5
0.20
Knockdowns
0.20
118s
Control time
157s
Method
Decision
62%
KO/TKO
25%
Submission
13%

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
W1

Joseph Benavidez

29-8
Career record
Height
64"
Reach
65"
Stance
Southpaw
Age
35
In our database 16 fights · 13-3
Last 5
W The Ultimate Fighter: Heavy Hit…
L UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2
W The Ultimate Fighter: Tournamen…
W UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs T…
W UFC 192: Cormier vs Gustafsson
Blue corner
W3

Dustin Ortiz

20-8
Career record
Height
65"
Reach
65"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
30
In our database 13 fights · 8-5
Last 5
W UFC Fight Night: Alvarez vs. Po…
W UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou
W UFC Fight Night: Pettis vs. Mor…
L UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Lo…
W UFC 206: Holloway vs. Pettis