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Islam Makhachev vs Michael MoralesFantasy matchup — not a booked fight

Welterweight champion · #3 at Welterweight
Not a booked fightFANTASY MATCHUP — this fight is not booked. What our two blind models would say if it were.
Islam Makhachev
UFC 18-1 · Pro 29-1
Welterweight champion
VS
Michael Morales
UFC 7-0 · Pro 19-0
#3 at Welterweight

If they fought

A statistical read on a fight that does not exist — no market, no booking, nothing to grade it against.

Islam Makhachev 53% Michael Morales 47%

Run as an unbooked fight, the numbers favour Islam Makhachev at 53% — close enough to be a coin toss — there is no meaningful separation between them.

Our two reads agree, and closely. Both land on Islam Makhachev — 53% on the first, 51% on the second, 2 points apart.

The same read puts the chance it goes the full distance at 46%.

Hypothetical run at Welterweight; Islam Makhachev fought mainly at Lightweight.

KO/TKO
38%
Submission
39%
Decision
24%
These figures come from the same statistical reads we run on real cards, with the betting market removed — there is no market on a fight nobody has booked. Nothing here is timestamped against a result, nothing here is graded, and none of it counts towards our public record. It is a thought experiment with real numbers behind it.

Tale of the tape

Islam Makhachev vs Michael Morales — the facts, side by side. ▲ marks the reach edge.

UFC 18-1UFC recordUFC 7-0
29-1Pro record19-0
5' 10"Height6' 0"
70"Reach▲79"
SouthpawStanceOrthodox
34Age27
170 lbs.Weight170 lbs.
RussiaNationalityEcuador
Makhachkala, Dagestan ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet UnionBorn inPasaje, El Oro, Ecuador
Makhachkala, Dagestan, RussiaFights out ofTijuana, Baja California, Mexico
—CampEntram Gym
Vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves.

Stat-by-stat

Islam Makhachev (left) vs Michael Morales (right) — career striking & grappling rates. The fighter ahead on each row is highlighted in their corner colour.

Strikes landed / min
2.27
vs
5.68
Striking accuracy
58%
vs
49%
Strikes absorbed / min
1.42
vs
3.26
Striking defence
61%
vs
53%
Takedowns / 15 min
3.22
vs
1.04
Takedown accuracy
54%
vs
41%
Takedown defence
91%
vs
89%
Sub attempts / 15 min
0.9
vs
0
Career averages from public UFC statistics. On “strikes absorbed / min”, fewer is better.

Fights that have happened between them

None.

Islam Makhachev and Michael Morales have never met in the UFC.

Every matchup on this page is a pairing that has never happened. That is how they are chosen: if these two had already met in the Octagon, there would be a real result to read instead, and this page would not exist.

The real fighters

Everything above is hypothetical. These are not.

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