Statlab take
baseline
Clear edge
Confidence: High
Nordine Taleb
Muslim Salikhov
34%
66%
Why
74"
Reach
Δ 4"
70"
38
Age
Δ 3y
35
16-7
Career record
Δ 10 pp
23-6
W1
Current streak
W1
11
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
Actual result
KO/TKO · Round 1
Taleb: 6 sig / 0 TD ·
Salikhov: 10 sig / 0 TD
Nordine Taleb
Muslim Salikhov
27
Sig strikes landed
32
59
Sig strikes attempted
70
38
Total strikes landed
43
0.9
Takedowns landed
0.8
1.6
Takedowns attempted
2.0
0.20
Knockdowns
0.40
85s
Control time
87s
Method
Decision
32%
KO/TKO
51%
Submission
17%
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
Nordine Taleb
16-7
Career record
Height
73"
Reach
75"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
38
In our database
11 fights · 7-4
Last 5
W
UFC Fight Night: Iaquinta vs. C…
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L
UFC Fight Night: Oezdemir vs. S…
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L
UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. T…
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W
UFC Fight Night: Lawler vs. Dos…
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W
UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs.…
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Blue corner
W1
Muslim Salikhov
"King of Kung Fu"
23-6
Career record
Height
71"
Reach
70"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
35
In our database
2 fights · 1-1
Last 2
W
UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Ga…
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L
UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs. Ga…
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