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Light Heavyweight · 3 rounds
The model's read

The model's pick is Oumar Sy over Modestas Bukauskas at 73% confidence — a high-confidence pick.

Most likely outcome: KO/TKO at 45% (KO/TKO 45%, submission 19%, decision 36%) — but all three finishes stay live.

The model gives it a 38% chance of going the distance, with a projected median fight time around 9:27.

That read carries 8.0pp of edge above the market on Oumar Sy.

Live on Polymarket, Oumar Sy is priced around 66%.

Assembled from the model's own outputs (confidence, method & round distribution, edge vs the market, live price) — not written free-hand. If a number isn't in the model, it isn't in this summary.

Prediction

One honest, calibrated confidence rating — the number is the signal.

HIGH We predict Oumar Sy73% confident
Modestas Bukauskas 27% Oumar Sy 73%
How it ends (method)
KO / TKO45%
Submission19%
Decision36%
How long it lasts (rounds)
Reaches R267%
Reaches R350%
Goes the distance38%
9:27
median time
+8.0pp
edge vs market

Odds

The market line next to the live prediction-market prices — information only. Each bar is the two sides' share of one certain outcome.

paymentsSportsbook line
Modestas Bukauskas35% · +181
Oumar Sy65% · -188
bar = implied chance, vig removed
Live · Polymarket
Modestas Bukauskas34% · +190
Oumar Sy66% · -190
as of 2026-09-01T04:30:07Z · $766 liquidity
scheduleKalshi pending
No Kalshi market found for this bout.

Line moves

What the market has done since it opened — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Modestas BukauskasOumar SyPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Modestas Bukauskas vs Oumar Sy — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Modestas Bukauskas and Oumar Sy from Aug 26 to Sep 01, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Modestas Bukauskas moves from 38% to 34% and Oumar Sy from 62% to 66%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.30%40%50%60%70%Aug 26Aug 27Aug 29Aug 30Sep 1▲ we flagged Oumar Sy (HIGH) here34%66%

Since the open, the market has drifted toward our pick: Oumar Sy's implied chance moved up from 62% to 66% (+4.0pp).

Show the numbers
SeriesOpenLowHighLatestMove
Modestas Bukauskas — sportsbook consensus39.0%35.3%39.0%35.3%−3.7pp
Oumar Sy — sportsbook consensus61.0%61.0%64.7%64.7%+3.7pp
Modestas Bukauskas — Polymarket38.5%34.5%38.5%34.5%−4.0pp
Oumar Sy — Polymarket61.5%61.5%65.5%65.5%+4.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,761 snapshots on file · window Aug 26 04:18Sep 01 08:51Z · latest Sep 01, 08:51Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.

Props

Our read on the method / round / distance markets — the market price shown for context, not as a bet call.

MarketOur readMarket
KO/TKO YES45%33%
SUB YES19%33%
DEC YES36%33%
GOES DISTANCE YES38%33%
OVER 1.5 ROUNDS67%33%
OVER 2.5 ROUNDS50%39%
Source: polymarket-gamma · as of 2026-09-01T04:30:07Z. “Our read” is the model's probability; “Market” is the de-vigged live price.

Tale of the tape

The facts, side by side — Modestas Bukauskas vs Oumar Sy.

Red corner ModestasBukauskas“The Baltic Gladiator”Klaipeda
VSUpcoming
Blue corner OumarSyBulgarian Top Team · Paris
Light Heavyweight3 roundsPicks published · graded in public after the card
The story
  • Has finished 4 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • 13 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Sy.
  • Averages 2.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Bukauskas.
20-7
Record
12-2
32
Age
−2 yr30
6' 3"
Height
+1″6' 4"
76″
Reach
+7″83″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
+813
UFC bouts
5
4/850% of wins
Finishes
+17%2/367% of wins
Klaipeda
From
Paris
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn.
All the vitals, as a table
20-7Record12-2
The Baltic GladiatorNickname
6' 3"Height6' 4"
76.0"Reach83.0"
SwitchStanceOrthodox
32Age30
205 lbs.Weight205 lbs.
LithuaniaNationalityFrance
KlaipedaHometownParis
Fighting out ofBulgarian Top Team
Vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register.

FightIQ Metrics

Our read — not official stats. Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the fighter’s own weight class (the full roster where a division is too thin to rank in). The better score on each row is highlighted in that fighter's corner colour.

Modestas BukauskasOumar Sy
52
Striking
64
47
Defence
88
32
Grappling / TD
42
55
Cardio
51
24
Chin
91
42
Fight IQ
67
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within weight class.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Where they go — head to head

Career UFC significant strikes by target zone. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Modestas Bukauskas13 UFC fights · 411 landed

72.3%
HEAD
51.3%
17.0%
BODY
19.2%
10.7%
LEGS
29.5%

Oumar Sy5 UFC fights · 146 landed

Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Modestas Bukauskas

0.23takedowns / 15 min
0.23 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.45 / 15m
0.35 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.00 / 15m
66%
ACCURACY
35%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Oumar Sy

2.45takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

Stats comparison

Modestas Bukauskas (left) vs Oumar Sy (right) — career striking & grappling rates.

Strikes landed / min
3.14
vs
3.41
Striking accuracy
43%
vs
48%
Strikes absorbed / min
3.86
vs
1.87
Striking defence
50%
vs
66%
Takedowns / 15 min
0.23
vs
2.45
Takedown accuracy
66%
vs
35%
Takedown defence
82%
vs
66%
Sub attempts / 15 min
0.1
vs
0.3
Career averages from public UFC statistics.

Bios

Who these two are — reported newsroom prose where we have it, our own data-built profile where we don’t. Each is labelled.

Modestas BukauskasFightIQ profileAll-rounder

6' 3" switch all-rounder campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 8 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 4 decision.

Built from Modestas Bukauskas’s own fight record and his striking and grappling figures, recomputed for this build. Full profile →
Oumar SyFightIQ profileAll-rounder

6' 4" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 3 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 1 decision.

Built from Oumar Sy’s own fight record and his striking and grappling figures, recomputed for this build. Full profile →

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