Caio Borralho
"The Natural"
17-2-0
VS
2026-11-14
UFC 334: Gane vs. Hokit
Middleweight
Yousri Belgaroui
9-3-0
MAIN + MARKET PREDICTION
Yousri Belgaroui
52.4% CONFIDENCE
Fight Insights
58%
Yousri Belgaroui
Fighters who absorb under 2.2 significant strikes per minute have won 58% of their UFC fights (1262-912)
Yousri Belgaroui: absorbs 1.9/min
64%
Caio Borralho
Fighters who have won 85%+ of 12+ pro fights and average 3.8+ minutes of control time per fight have won 64% of their UFC fights (352-195)
Caio Borralho: 17-2-0 record | Caio Borralho: 4.1 min control/fight
59%
Yousri Belgaroui
Fighters who are on a 3+ fight win streak and score 0.89+ knockdowns per 15 minutes have won 59% of their UFC fights (277-189)
Yousri Belgaroui: 3-fight win streak | Yousri Belgaroui: 1.55 knockdowns/15 min
63%
Matchup
Fights where a fighter who has gone to a decision in 70%+ of their UFC fights (5+ fights) go the distance 63% of the time (vs 48% of all UFC fights, n=1022)
41%
Division & format
Middleweight fights go the distance 41% of the time (vs 48% of all UFC fights, n=1074)
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
52%
Decision
37%
KO / TKO
11%
Submission
Decision52.2%
KO / TKO36.9%
Submission11.0%
How long it lasts 3-round fight
59%
Goes the distance
fair -142
41%
Ends in a finish
fair +142
Rounds lineOverUnder
0.5 93% -1304 7% +1304
1.5 73% -270 27% +270
2.5 62% -161 38% +161
When it ends
Round 118%
Round 218%
Round 36%
Goes the distance59%
"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
Caio Borralho
Yousri Belgaroui
Net striking dominance
Matchup -1.78
13%
Strike rate delta r1 to r3
Caio Borralho -0.97
8%
Experience edge (total fights)
Matchup +7
7%
Age
Yousri Belgaroui 34.5 yrs
7%
Elo rating edge
Matchup 35
6%
Defensive skill edge
Matchup 0.03
5%
Strike rate delta r1 to r3
Yousri Belgaroui +0.71
5%
Age
Caio Borralho 33.8 yrs
4%
Strikes absorbed/min
Yousri Belgaroui 2.10
3%
Head-strike accuracy edge
Matchup -6%
3%
Avg takedowns attempted
Caio Borralho 2.49
3%
Striking accuracy
Caio Borralho 51%
3%
Decision rate
Caio Borralho 43%
3%
Last 2 avg fight time
Caio Borralho 1200.00
2%
← pushes toward Caio Borralho pushes toward Yousri Belgaroui →
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.

Caio Borralho

Win Streak
1
Finish Rate
20%
Avg Duration
17.4m
Last 5 fights (most recent first)
W DEC
L DEC
W DEC
W KO
W DEC
Height: 185 cm
Weight: 185 lbs
Reach: 190 cm
Stance: Southpaw

Yousri Belgaroui

Win Streak
3
Finish Rate
100%
Avg Duration
9.7m
Last 5 fights (most recent first)
W KO
W KO
W KO
Height: 198 cm
Weight: 185 lbs
Reach: 201 cm
Stance: Orthodox
Head-to-Head Stats
Caio Borralho
ADVANTAGE
Yousri Belgaroui
Striking Accuracy
51.3%
+6.1%
57.4%
Strikes Landed/Min
3.36
+2.18
5.53
Strikes Absorbed/Min
2.89
+0.79
2.10
Striking Defense
58.4%
+4.0%
62.3%
Takedown Accuracy
36.6%
+4.3%
40.9%
Takedown Defense
69.2%
+9.6%
59.6%
Knockdowns/Fight
0.29
+0.31
0.60
Avg Control Time (sec)
81.32
+16.59
64.72
Strikes Per Round
16.25
+6.55
22.80
Head Strike %
63.6%
+3.6%
59.9%
Body Strike %
19.1%
+3.7%
22.8%
Leg Strike %
17.3%
+0.1%
17.2%
Last 5 Win Rate
80.0%
+20.0%
100.0%
Last 5 Finish Rate
20.0%
+80.0%
100.0%