Amir Albazi
"The Prince"
17-2-0
VS
Alessandro Costa
"Nono"
14-5-0
Fight Insights
62%
Amir Albazi
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)
Amir Albazi: 17-2-0 record | Alessandro Costa: finished 2 times
57%
Alessandro Costa
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)
68%
Alessandro Costa
Fighters who have won 50%+ of their UFC fights by KO/TKO (5+ fights) facing an opponent who lands under 2.6 significant strikes per minute have won 68% of their UFC fights (66-31)
Alessandro Costa: 50% of UFC fights won by KO/TKO | Amir Albazi: 2.5 sig strikes/min
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)
24%
Division & format
Flyweight fights end in a KO/TKO 24% of the time (vs 33% of all UFC fights, n=430)
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
41.3%
58.7%
Alessandro Costa
XGBoost
41.3%
58.7%
Alessandro Costa
LightGBM
46.9%
53.1%
Alessandro Costa
Logistic (Core)
50.4%
49.6%
Amir Albazi
CatBoost
43.1%
56.9%
Alessandro Costa
Ensemble
42.3%
57.7%
Alessandro Costa
Recency-Heavy · CatBoost
45.4%
54.6%
Alessandro Costa
Recency-Heavy · Ensemble
43.2%
56.8%
Alessandro Costa
Recency-Heavy · LightGBM
42.3%
57.7%
Alessandro Costa
Recency-Heavy · Logistic (Core)
51.9%
48.1%
Amir Albazi
Recency-Heavy · XGBoost
48.3%
51.7%
Alessandro Costa
With Odds · CatBoost
49.7%
50.3%
Alessandro Costa
With Odds · Ensemble
47.6%
52.4%
Alessandro Costa
With Odds · LightGBM
50.0%
50.0%
Alessandro Costa
With Odds · Logistic (Core)
50.4%
49.6%
Amir Albazi
With Odds · XGBoost
47.8%
52.2%
Alessandro Costa
Click a model to view the fight through its eyes — probabilities, prediction and explanation update.
How It Ends
59%
Decision
25%
KO / TKO
16%
Submission
How long it lasts 3-round fight
58%
Goes the distance
fair -136
42%
Ends in a finish
fair +136
| Rounds line | Over | Under |
|---|---|---|
| 0.5 | 89% -797 | 11% +797 |
| 1.5 | 77% -336 | 23% +336 |
| 2.5 | 61% -156 | 39% +156 |
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
Amir Albazi
Alessandro Costa
16%
7%
6%
5%
4%
4%
4%
4%
4%
4%
3%
3%
3%
3%
← pushes toward Amir Albazi
pushes toward Alessandro Costa →
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.
Amir Albazi
Win Streak
N/A
Finish Rate
40%
Avg Duration
16.4m
Last 5 fights (most recent first)
L
DEC
L
DEC
W
DEC
W
KO
W
SUB
Height:
165 cm
Weight:
125 lbs
Reach:
173 cm
Stance:
Orthodox
Alessandro Costa
Win Streak
3
Finish Rate
80%
Avg Duration
7.4m
Last 5 fights (most recent first)
W
SUB
W
KO
W
KO
L
KO
W
KO
Height:
163 cm
Weight:
125 lbs
Reach:
170 cm
Stance:
Orthodox
Head-to-Head Stats
Amir Albazi
ADVANTAGE
Alessandro Costa
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