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Yousri Belgaroui vs Djorden Santos

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

Yousri BelgarouiYousri Belgaroui10-3-0
vs
Djorden SantosDjorden Santos11-3-0
Model pickYousri Belgaroui · 64%KO / TKO · round 3 or later
10-3-0Record11-3-0
2Tracked bouts3
64%Win chance36%

Yousri Belgaroui wins 100% of tracked bouts to Santos's 33%, finishes 100% of wins, and Santos has been finished in 50% of losses — 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 / TKO42.8%
Submission15.4%
Decision41.9%
Round

How far it goes

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

32
R1
18
R2
50
R3+
Round 1
32.4%
Round 2
18.1%
Round 3 or later
49.6%
Goes the distance
41.9%

“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.

Yousri Belgaroui
10-3-0

2-0 in the last 2. 100% of wins come by finish; 0% of fights reach the judges.

+ 2 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 2 tracked
WMansur Abdul-MalikKO / TKO R3
WAzamat BekoevKO / TKO R3
Djorden Santos
11-3-0

1-2 in the last 3. 0% 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
LBaisangur SusurkaevSubmission R3
WDanny BarlowDecision R3
LOzzy DiazDecision R3
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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