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Muslim Salikhov vs Ignacio Bahamondes

Sat, Sep 12, 2:00 PM ET · Welterweight · 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.

Muslim SalikhovMuslim Salikhov22-6-0
vs
Ignacio BahamondesIgnacio Bahamondes17-7-0
Model pickIgnacio Bahamondes · 78.7%Decision · round 3 or later
22-6-0Record17-7-0
14Tracked bouts10
21.3%Win chance78.7%

Ignacio Bahamondes finishes 83% of wins, and Salikhov has been finished in 80% of losses — 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 / TKO37.3%
Submission14.0%
Decision48.7%
Round

How far it goes

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

25
R1
17
R2
58
R3+
Round 1
24.8%
Round 2
17.3%
Round 3 or later
57.9%
Goes the distance
48.7%

“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.

Muslim Salikhov
22-6-0

3-2 in the last 5. 56% of wins come by finish; 36% of fights reach the judges.

+ 5 career knockouts in this corpus
Losses tend to come by finish rather than decision
Last 5 tracked
LUros MedicKO / TKO R1
WCarlos LealKO / TKO R1
WSong KenanKO / TKO R1
WSantiago PonzinibbioDecision R3
LRandy BrownKO / TKO R1
Ignacio Bahamondes
17-7-0

3-2 in the last 5. 83% of wins come by finish; 50% of fights reach the judges.

+ Finishes fights — mostly by knockout
+ 3 career knockouts in this corpus
Too few tracked losses to name a pattern — absence of data, not absence of weakness
Last 5 tracked
LTofiq MusayevDecision R3
LRafael FizievDecision R3
WJalin TurnerSubmission R1
WManuel TorresKO / TKO R1
WChristos GiagosKO / 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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