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Edmen Shahbazyan vs Charles Byrd

UFC 235: Jones vs. Smith ·T-Mobile Arena

Statlab take

baseline
Heavy favorite Confidence: High
Edmen Shahbazyan
Charles Byrd
88% 12%
Why
74"
Reach
Δ 1"
73"
21
Age
Δ 14y
35
17-5
Career record
Δ 22 pp
10-8
W1
Current streak
L1
1
UFC fights in our DB
2

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
Shahbazyan: 13 sig / 0 TD · Byrd: 1 sig / 0 TD
Edmen Shahbazyan
Charles Byrd
18
Sig strikes landed
7
34
Sig strikes attempted
3
46
Total strikes landed
26
1.8
Takedowns landed
0.7
2.4
Takedowns attempted
2.6
0.20
Knockdowns
0.00
333s
Control time
108s
Method
Decision
25%
KO/TKO
34%
Submission
41%

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

Edmen Shahbazyan

"The Golden Boy"
17-5
Career record
Height
74"
Reach
74"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
21
In our database 1 fight · 1-0
Last 1
W The Ultimate Fighter: Heavy Hit…
Blue corner
L1

Charles Byrd

"Kid Dynamite"
10-8
Career record
Height
70"
Reach
73"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
35
In our database 2 fights · 1-1
Last 2
L UFC 228: Woodley vs. Till
W UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Vol…