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Dan Ige vs David Martinez

Sat, Sep 12, 5:00 PM ET · Bantamweight · 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.

Dan IgeDan Ige19-11-0
vs
David MartinezDavid Martinez14-1-0
Model pickDavid Martinez · 65.1%Decision · round 3 or later
19-11-0Record14-1-0
21Tracked bouts3
34.9%Win chance65.1%

David Martinez wins 100% of tracked bouts to Ige's 52%, the shorter record is Martinez's (3 vs 21), so the read leans on the opponent's history — 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 / TKO25.8%
Submission8.9%
Decision65.2%
Round

How far it goes

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

15
R1
12
R2
73
R3+
Round 1
15.3%
Round 2
12%
Round 3 or later
72.7%
Goes the distance
65.2%

“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.

Dan Ige
19-11-0

1-4 in the last 5. 55% of wins come by finish; 67% of fights reach the judges.

+ 5 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
LMelquizael CostaKO / TKO R1
LPatricio FreireDecision R3
WSean WoodsonKO / TKO R3
LLerone MurphyDecision R3
LDiego LopesDecision R3
David Martinez
14-1-0

3-0 in the last 3. 33% of wins come by finish; 67% of fights reach the judges.

+ 3 tracked bouts — too few clear tendencies to call out
Too few tracked losses to name a pattern — absence of data, not absence of weakness
Last 3 tracked
WMarlon VeraDecision R3
WRob FontDecision R3
WSaimon OliveiraKO / TKO 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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