Winner: Azamat Bekoev
Confidence Score: 80Azamat Bekoev is a far more experienced and well-rounded mixed martial artist, boasting a 20-3 record with 8 KOs and 8 submissions, as well as 10 first-round finishes. He has a proven ability to finish fights quickly (average fight time 2:54) and displays a balanced skill set with both striking and grappling threats. His takedown defense is perfect (100%), and his takedown accuracy is solid at 33%. His striking accuracy is identical to Belgaroui’s (61%), but he has a much higher finishing rate and a more diverse record of wins. Yousri Belgaroui, while a talented striker with a high significant strike accuracy (61%) and strong takedown defense (82%), is still very inexperienced in MMA (1-1 record, no finishes, and making his UFC debut). Historically, fighters with Bekoev’s level of experience and finishing ability have a high win rate over newcomers with similar profiles to Belgaroui, especially when the latter has not shown finishing power or ground skills in MMA. Bekoev’s younger age (29 vs 33) and full MMA background also favor him in this matchup.
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