Jake Matthews
"The Celtic Kid"
22-8-0
VS
Tahir Abdullayev
"Tank"
19-3-0
Thin UFC data
Fight Insights
62%
Tahir Abdullayev
Fighters who have won 85%+ of 12+ pro fights facing an opponent who has been finished 2+ times in the UFC have won 62% of their UFC fights (471-286)
Tahir Abdullayev: 19-3-0 record | Jake Matthews: finished 5 times
58%
Tahir Abdullayev
Fighters who are coming off a win facing an opponent who has 15+ UFC fights have won 58% of their UFC fights (554-398)
Jake Matthews: 24 UFC fights
Real UFC history since 2006, using each fighter's record, form and stats as they stood
before every past fight. Only patterns that hold up statistically (corrected for
testing many ideas at once) and point the same way in both halves of history are shown —
these describe the past, they are not predictions.
What Every Model Says
Main + Market
currently viewing
57.7%
42.3%
Jake Matthews
XGBoost
57.7%
42.3%
Jake Matthews
LightGBM
59.9%
40.1%
Jake Matthews
Logistic (Core)
57.2%
42.8%
Jake Matthews
CatBoost
56.2%
43.8%
Jake Matthews
Ensemble
57.4%
42.6%
Jake Matthews
Recency-Heavy · CatBoost
56.3%
43.7%
Jake Matthews
Recency-Heavy · Ensemble
55.3%
44.7%
Jake Matthews
Recency-Heavy · LightGBM
57.8%
42.2%
Jake Matthews
Recency-Heavy · Logistic (Core)
58.1%
41.9%
Jake Matthews
Recency-Heavy · XGBoost
58.4%
41.6%
Jake Matthews
With Odds · CatBoost
48.3%
51.7%
Tahir Abdullayev
With Odds · Ensemble
50.5%
49.5%
Jake Matthews
With Odds · LightGBM
50.8%
49.2%
Jake Matthews
With Odds · Logistic (Core)
57.2%
42.8%
Jake Matthews
With Odds · XGBoost
48.1%
51.9%
Tahir Abdullayev
Click a model to view the fight through its eyes — probabilities, prediction and explanation update.
How It Ends
52%
Decision
24%
KO / TKO
24%
Submission
How long it lasts 3-round fight
61%
Goes the distance
fair -154
39%
Ends in a finish
fair +154
| Rounds line | Over | Under |
|---|---|---|
| 0.5 | 92% -1185 | 8% +1185 |
| 1.5 | 73% -272 | 27% +272 |
| 2.5 | 64% -178 | 36% +178 |
When it ends
"Over 1.5" means the fight lasts past the middle of round 2, the way sportsbooks settle it. Fair odds
are the break-even price with no vig, so compare them with a book's line.
On unseen fights this model beat the plain base rate by about 4%
(log loss; 51% of 3-round fights go the distance),
so treat it as a tilt away from the base rate, not a certainty.
Why XGBoost leans this way
Jake Matthews
Tahir Abdullayev
12%
9%
7%
6%
6%
5%
5%
4%
4%
4%
3%
3%
3%
3%
← pushes toward Jake Matthews
pushes toward Tahir Abdullayev →
Bars show each factor's SHAP contribution to this specific prediction — how much it pushed
the win probability toward one fighter, given everything else the model knows. Percentages
are each factor's share of the total push across the top 30 factors.
Jake Matthews
Win Streak
1
Finish Rate
20%
Avg Duration
11.9m
Last 5 fights (most recent first)
W
DEC
L
SUB
W
SUB
W
DEC
W
DEC
Height:
180 cm
Weight:
170 lbs
Reach:
185 cm
Stance:
Orthodox
Tahir Abdullayev
Win Streak
1
Finish Rate
100%
Avg Duration
14.5m
Last 5 fights (most recent first)
W
KO
Height:
N/A cm
Weight:
170 lbs
Reach:
N/A cm
Stance:
Orthodox
Head-to-Head Stats
Jake Matthews
ADVANTAGE
Tahir Abdullayev
Striking Accuracy
Strikes Landed/Min
Strikes Absorbed/Min
Striking Defense
Takedown Accuracy
Takedown Defense
Knockdowns/Fight
Avg Control Time (sec)
Strikes Per Round
Head Strike %
Body Strike %
Leg Strike %
Last 5 Win Rate
Last 5 Finish Rate