Davey Grant
"Dangerous"
17-8-0
VS
2026-11-07
UFC Fight Night: Bonfim vs. Brady
Bantamweight
Elijah Smith
"Swift"
9-1-0
MAIN + MARKET PREDICTION
Elijah Smith 'Swift'
65.6% CONFIDENCE
Fight Insights
63%
Elijah Smith
Fighters who are 5+ years younger than their opponent have won 63% of their UFC fights (1773-1054)
Elijah Smith is 24, Davey Grant is 41
58%
Elijah Smith
Fighters who absorb under 2.2 significant strikes per minute have won 58% of their UFC fights (1262-912)
Elijah Smith: absorbs 1.7/min
62%
Elijah Smith
Fighters who are on a 3+ fight win streak facing an opponent who has been finished 2+ times in the UFC have won 62% of their UFC fights (413-254)
Elijah Smith: 3-fight win streak | Davey Grant: finished 4 times
57%
Davey Grant
Fighters who are coming off a win facing an opponent who stops 52% or fewer of opponents' takedowns have won 57% of their UFC fights (431-323)
Elijah Smith: 46% takedown defense
59%
Matchup
Fights where a fighter who has finished their last 2+ opponents end inside the distance 59% of the time (vs 52% of all UFC fights, n=1115)
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.
How It Ends
45%
Decision
32%
KO / TKO
23%
Submission
Decision45.0%
KO / TKO31.7%
Submission23.3%
How long it lasts 3-round fight
47%
Goes the distance
fair +113
53%
Ends in a finish
fair -113
Rounds lineOverUnder
0.5 91% -989 9% +989
1.5 65% -186 35% +186
2.5 58% -136 42% +136
When it ends
Round 126%
Round 213%
Round 314%
Goes the distance47%
"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
Davey Grant
Elijah Smith
Age edge (significant gap)
Matchup +16.71
14%
Age
Davey Grant 40.9 yrs
10%
Net striking dominance
Matchup +0.42
7%
Experience edge (total fights)
Matchup +15
6%
Defensive skill edge
Matchup 0.05
6%
Strike rate delta r1 to r3
Davey Grant -1.03
5%
Age
Elijah Smith 24.2 yrs
5%
Last 2 avg fight time
Elijah Smith 307
4%
Elo rating edge
Matchup -31
3%
Strikes absorbed/min
Davey Grant 4.19
3%
Fights per year
Davey Grant 1.29
3%
Avg takedowns attempted
Elijah Smith 2.35
3%
Head-strike accuracy edge
Matchup -23%
3%
Body strikes absorbed per min
Elijah Smith 0.43
2%
← pushes toward Davey Grant pushes toward Elijah Smith →
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.

Davey Grant

Win Streak
1
Finish Rate
N/A%
Avg Duration
12.6m
Last 5 fights (most recent first)
W DEC
L SUB
W DEC
W DEC
L DEC
Height: 173 cm
Weight: 135 lbs
Reach: 175 cm
Stance: Orthodox

Elijah Smith

Win Streak
3
Finish Rate
67%
Avg Duration
8.4m
Last 5 fights (most recent first)
W SUB
W KO
W DEC
Height: 175 cm
Weight: 135 lbs
Reach: 180 cm
Stance: Orthodox
Head-to-Head Stats
Davey Grant
ADVANTAGE
Elijah Smith
Striking Accuracy
47.0%
+2.5%
49.5%
Strikes Landed/Min
5.88
+2.73
3.14
Strikes Absorbed/Min
4.19
+2.04
2.15
Striking Defense
53.0%
+1.1%
54.1%
Takedown Accuracy
34.4%
+8.9%
43.3%
Takedown Defense
66.7%
+11.2%
55.5%
Knockdowns/Fight
0.20
+0.10
0.30
Avg Control Time (sec)
63.74
+16.60
80.34
Strikes Per Round
26.04
+9.97
16.07
Head Strike %
43.2%
+25.9%
69.1%
Body Strike %
28.3%
+11.9%
16.4%
Leg Strike %
28.5%
+14.0%
14.5%
Last 5 Win Rate
60.0%
+40.0%
100.0%
Last 5 Finish Rate
0.0%
+66.7%
66.7%