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Tim Elliott vs Édgar Cháirez

Sat, Sep 12, 2:00 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.

Tim ElliottTim Elliott22-14-1
vs
Édgar CháirezÉdgar Cháirez14-6-0
Model pickÉdgar Cháirez · 77.6%Decision · round 3 or later
22-14-1Record14-6-0
22Tracked bouts6
22.4%Win chance77.6%

Édgar Cháirez wins 67% of tracked bouts to Elliott's 45%, 75% of wins come by finish — 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 / TKO15.3%
Submission24.8%
Decision59.9%
Round

How far it goes

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

17
R1
13
R2
69
R3+
Round 1
17.4%
Round 2
13.4%
Round 3 or later
69.3%
Goes the distance
59.9%

“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.

Tim Elliott
22-14-1

3-2 in the last 5. 30% of wins come by finish; 64% of fights reach the judges.

+ 3 career submission wins 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
LSteve ErcegDecision R3
WKai AsakuraSubmission R2
WSumudaerjiSubmission R1
LMuhammad MokaevSubmission R3
WVictor AltamiranoDecision R3
Édgar Cháirez
14-6-0

4-1 in the last 5. 75% of wins come by finish; 50% 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
WBruno SilvaSubmission R1
WFelipe BunesDecision R3
WCJ VergaraSubmission R1
LJoshua VanDecision R3
WDaniel LacerdaSubmission 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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