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Jordan Griffin vs Youssef Zalal

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Statlab take

baseline
Edge Confidence: High
Jordan Griffin
Youssef Zalal
42% 58%
Why
73"
Reach
Δ 1"
72"
30
Age
Δ 6y
24
19-9
Career record
Δ 5 pp
19-6-1
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Current streak
W1
3
UFC fights in our DB
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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
Griffin: 28 sig / 2 TD · Zalal: 59 sig / 0 TD
Jordan Griffin
Youssef Zalal
25
Sig strikes landed
38
59
Sig strikes attempted
71
43
Total strikes landed
63
1.0
Takedowns landed
2.0
3.5
Takedowns attempted
4.1
0.00
Knockdowns
0.20
145s
Control time
252s
Method
Decision
68%
KO/TKO
15%
Submission
18%

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

Jordan Griffin

"Native Psycho"
19-9
Career record
Height
70"
Reach
73"
Stance
Southpaw
Age
30
In our database 3 fights · 1-2
Last 3
W UFC Fight Night: Benavidez vs. …
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L UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Gae…
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L UFC Fight Night: Lee vs. Iaquin…
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Blue corner
W1

Youssef Zalal

"The Moroccan Devil"
19-6-1
Career record
Height
70"
Reach
72"
Stance
Switch
Age
24
In our database 1 fight · 1-0
Last 1
W UFC 247: Jones vs. Reyes
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