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Drakkar Klose vs Tommy Gantt

Sat, Sep 12, 2:00 PM ET · Lightweight · 3 rounds · Noche UFC: Silva vs. Delgado · Desert Diamond Arena

How much history is behind this. One fighter has no UFC history in our corpus, so this read leans on the established fighter's record and league-average priors for the newcomer. Treat it as weaker than a bout where both sides are known.

Winner

Who the model expects to win

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

Drakkar KloseDrakkar Klose16-3-1
vs
Tommy GanttTommy Gantt12-0-0
Model pickTommy Gantt · 51.9%Decision · round 3 or later
16-3-1Record12-0-0
13Tracked bouts1
48.1%Win chance51.9%

Tommy Gantt wins 100% of tracked bouts to Klose's 77%, finishes 100% of wins, and Klose has been finished in 67% 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 / TKO28.0%
Submission8.7%
Decision63.2%
Round

How far it goes

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

17
R1
12
R2
71
R3+
Round 1
16.6%
Round 2
12.2%
Round 3 or later
71.3%
Goes the distance
63.2%

“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.

Drakkar Klose
16-3-1

4-1 in the last 5. 20% of wins come by finish; 69% of fights reach the judges.

+ 77% win rate across 13 tracked bouts
+ Durable — most tracked fights reach the judges
Losses tend to come by finish rather than decision
Rarely finishes — needs the judges
Last 5 tracked
WEdson BarbozaDecision R3
LJoel AlvarezKO / TKO R1
WJoaquim SilvaDecision R3
WJoe SoleckiKO / TKO R1
WRafa GarciaDecision R3
Tommy Gantt
12-0-0

1-0 in the last 1. 100% of wins come by finish; 0% of fights reach the judges.

+ 1 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 1 tracked
WArtur MinevKO / TKO R2
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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