Trying to predict the outcome is an integral part of sports. Everyone tries to guess the winner, be it for fun or gambling. Calling the winner is especially tough in combat sports, where everything can turn around in a split second – your guy can be dominating
the opponent for three straight rounds only to get knocked out the next second. Clearly, humans are ill-equipped for making complex predictions; some outside help is in order.
Their superhuman processing power gives computers a demonstrable analytic edge and makes them far more accurate predictors than puny humans. With the computing power of a million human brains, AIs can extrapolate seemingly chaotic and unfathomable things like future weather. In this article, we have concerned ourselves with the possibility of using AI machine learning to reliably predict the outcome of UFC fights.
