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Tai Tuivasa vs Robelis Despaigne

Sat, Sep 19, 7:00 PM ET · Heavyweight · 3 rounds · UFC 331: Van vs. Pantoja 2 · crypto.com Arena

Fight history: Tai Tuivasa · Robelis Despaigne

Simulation story

6 chapters · read from the published artifact

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Tai Tuivasa vs Robelis Despaigne

Heavyweight, 3 rounds on UFC 331: Van vs. Pantoja 2. The model read both fighters' histories.

Winner

Who the model expects to win

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

Tai Tuivasa15-10-0

Robelis Despaigne6-2-0

Model pickTai Tuivasa · 55.8%KO / TKO · round 1 (45%)

15-10-0Record6-2-0

18Tracked bouts3

55.8%Win chance44.2%

Tai Tuivasa 88% of wins come by finish, 18 tracked bouts against 3 — and the finish profile points to a knockout.

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 / TKO62.1%

Submission9.3%

Decision28.7%

Round

How far it goes

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

R3+

Round 1

45.2%

Round 2

16.6%

Round 3 or later

38.3%

Goes the distance

28.7%

“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.

Tai Tuivasa

15-10-0

0-5 in the last 5. 88% of wins come by finish; 28% of fights reach the judges.

+ Finishes fights — mostly by knockout

+ 7 career knockouts in this corpus

− Losses tend to come by finish rather than decision

− 56% of tracked bouts are losses

Last 5 tracked

LLouie SutherlandDecision R3

LTallison TeixeiraDecision R3

LJairzinho RozenstruikDecision R3

LMarcin TyburaSubmission R1

LAlexander VolkovSubmission R2

Robelis Despaigne

6-2-0

1-2 in the last 3. 100% 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

LAusten LaneDecision R3

LWaldo Cortes AcostaDecision R3

WJosh ParisianKO / 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 2026-09-17T15:22:23Z

Educational and paper-only — not betting advice.

Simulation story

Tai Tuivasa vs Robelis Despaigne

Who the model expects to win

How it ends

How far it goes

What the corpus knows about each of them

Where these numbers come from

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