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Brandon Moreno vs Joseph Morales

Sat, Sep 12, 5:00 PM ET · Flyweight · 3 rounds · Noche UFC: Silva vs. Delgado · Desert Diamond Arena

Winner

Who the model expects to win

Probabilities over the two fighters, from the head that was evaluated on its own preregistered bar.

Brandon MorenoBrandon Moreno23-10-2
vs
Joseph MoralesJoseph Morales15-2-0
Model pickBrandon Moreno · 59.3%Decision · round 3 or later
23-10-2Record15-2-0
18Tracked bouts5
59.3%Win chance40.8%

Brandon Moreno 18 tracked bouts against 5 — and the matchup profiles as one that reaches the judges.

Method

How it ends

Read among fights that end with a winner — a draw or no-contest sits outside this sample, so the three add to 100%.

KO / TKO20.6%
Submission21.6%
Decision57.8%
Round

How far it goes

R3+ carries every fight that reaches the judges as well as every round-3-or-later finish.

19
R1
15
R2
66
R3+
Round 1
19%
Round 2
15%
Round 3 or later
66%
Goes the distance
57.8%

“Goes the distance” is the method head’s decision probability, not a separate model — so it cannot disagree with the bar above it.

The fighters

What the corpus knows about each of them

Tracked bouts only — a fight outside the corpus is not counted, and a thin record says so.

Brandon Moreno
23-10-2

2-3 in the last 5. 55% of wins come by finish; 61% of fights reach the judges.

+ 3 career submission wins in this corpus
+ 3 career knockouts in this corpus
+ Durable — most tracked fights reach the judges
Too few tracked losses to name a pattern — absence of data, not absence of weakness
Last 5 tracked
LLone'er KavanaghDecision R5
LTatsuro TairaKO / TKO R2
WSteve ErcegDecision R5
WAmir AlbaziDecision R5
LBrandon RoyvalDecision R5
Joseph Morales
15-2-0

3-2 in the last 5. 100% of wins come by finish; 20% of fights reach the judges.

+ Finishes fights — mostly by submission
+ 3 career submission wins in this corpus
Too few tracked losses to name a pattern — absence of data, not absence of weakness
Last 5 tracked
WMatt SchnellSubmission R1
WAlibi IdirisSubmission R2
LEric SheltonDecision R3
LDeiveson FigueiredoKO / TKO R2
WRobert SanchezSubmission R1
Method

Where these numbers come from

Three separate heads — winner, method and round — each fitted on a corpus of tracked UFC fights and each published only on its own PASS verdict against a bar frozen before it was fitted. This is the one model on the site that beat its baseline on every head it was tested on.

Winner 60.6% accurate over 3,557 held-out fights · baseline 50% · log loss 0.6615 against 0.6931
Method 52.7% accurate over 3,557 held-out fights · baseline 46.7% · log loss 0.9692 against 1.0255
Round 60.6% accurate over 3,557 held-out fights · baseline 55.3% · log loss 0.9148 against 0.9549
model ufc-fight-model@e657fc40b64d
corpus 8,642 fights · 1994-03-11 to 2026-08-08 · scrape_ufc_stats (GPL-3.0)
generated 2026-09-09T17:05:43Z

Educational and paper-only — not betting advice.

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