Aleksandre Topuria
"El Conquistador"
7-1-0
Thin UFC data
VS
2026-11-21
UFC Fight Night: Prochazka vs. Stirling
Bantamweight
Santiago Luna
"BorderBoy"
7-0-0
MAIN + MARKET PREDICTION
Santiago Luna 'BorderBoy'
58.6% CONFIDENCE
Fight Insights
63%
Santiago Luna
Fighters who are 5+ years younger than their opponent have won 63% of their UFC fights (1773-1054)
Santiago Luna is 22, Aleksandre Topuria is 31
57%
Aleksandre Topuria
Fighters who are coming off a win facing an opponent who is coming off a loss have won 57% of their UFC fights (979-747)
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
58%
Decision
27%
KO / TKO
16%
Submission
Decision57.6%
KO / TKO26.8%
Submission15.6%
How long it lasts 3-round fight
55%
Goes the distance
fair -122
45%
Ends in a finish
fair +122
Rounds lineOverUnder
0.5 91% -1007 9% +1007
1.5 77% -344 23% +344
2.5 65% -182 35% +182
When it ends
Round 118%
Round 213%
Round 314%
Goes the distance55%
"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
Aleksandre Topuria
Santiago Luna
Age edge (significant gap)
Matchup +8.52
16%
Strike rate delta r1 to r3
Santiago Luna -1.29
9%
Age
Santiago Luna 22.3 yrs
8%
Net striking dominance
Matchup -0.37
8%
Reach edge
Matchup -15.2 cm
7%
Defensive skill edge
Matchup 0.06
6%
Strike rate delta r1 to r3
Aleksandre Topuria +0.39
4%
Total career fights (incl. non-UFC)
Santiago Luna 7
3%
Decision rate
Aleksandre Topuria 47%
3%
Total career fights (incl. non-UFC)
Aleksandre Topuria 8
3%
Distance strike defense
Aleksandre Topuria 65%
3%
Age
Aleksandre Topuria 30.8 yrs
3%
Avg takedowns attempted
Aleksandre Topuria 3.67
2%
Last 2 avg fight time
Santiago Luna 896
2%
← pushes toward Aleksandre Topuria pushes toward Santiago Luna →
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.

Aleksandre Topuria

Win Streak
2
Finish Rate
N/A%
Avg Duration
15.0m
Last 5 fights (most recent first)
W DEC
W DEC
Height: 170 cm
Weight: 135 lbs
Reach: 173 cm
Stance: Orthodox

Santiago Luna

Win Streak
N/A
Finish Rate
33%
Avg Duration
10.9m
Last 5 fights (most recent first)
L SUB
W DEC
W KO
Height: 175 cm
Weight: 135 lbs
Reach: 188 cm
Stance: Orthodox
Head-to-Head Stats
Aleksandre Topuria
ADVANTAGE
Santiago Luna
Striking Accuracy
49.0%
+0.8%
49.9%
Strikes Landed/Min
3.11
+0.84
3.95
Strikes Absorbed/Min
2.90
+0.10
2.80
Striking Defense
61.9%
+0.8%
62.7%
Takedown Accuracy
35.8%
+12.4%
48.2%
Takedown Defense
73.6%
+13.0%
60.6%
Knockdowns/Fight
0.16
+0.22
0.38
Avg Control Time (sec)
76.48
+10.95
65.53
Strikes Per Round
15.99
+2.59
18.57
Head Strike %
66.2%
+1.3%
67.5%
Body Strike %
20.5%
+1.2%
21.7%
Leg Strike %
13.3%
+2.5%
10.8%
Last 5 Win Rate
100.0%
+33.3%
66.7%
Last 5 Finish Rate
0.0%
+33.3%
33.3%