The story behind Cannon Fight Lab and why it exists.
Cannon Fight Lab is a UFC analytics platform built for one purpose: giving MMA bettors the hard data to make their own informed picks.
Every other corner of MMA betting is dominated by hot takes, picks pages, and Discord touts charging $50/month to tell you what to bet. The actual data — strike accuracy by division, age advantage, reach gap win rates, post-loss form, finish patterns — is either locked behind premium subscriptions, scattered across a dozen forums, or never surfaced at all.
This site does one thing: it consolidates that data layer into a single, fast, searchable place. Then it adds an analytics layer on top — derived insights you can use to evaluate any matchup, build any parlay, and form your own conviction.
All data is updated nightly from public UFC sources, so the counts above grow weekly as new cards land. The platform doesn't sell picks. It doesn't run a Discord. It doesn't tell you who to bet on. It gives you the numbers and gets out of your way.
CFL is three things. The Factor Lab (free) tests which fight stats actually predict winners and which just repeat the betting line — so far, age is the only factor that survives that test. Fight IQ is the tape-only face of our audited engine: it calls every fight from fighter history, fight stats, and physical attributes without ever seeing a betting line, and lands 61.4% on 3,262 fights it never trained on — within seven points of just picking the Vegas favorite (about 68%), without ever looking at Vegas. Its highest-confidence Locks hit 74.7%. Value is the same engine's money face: it flags a bet only when the engine's number disagrees with the vig-free market price by 4+ points. The simulated walk-forward record lives in the Proof Center; the live record started July 2026 and is still tiny — every result, misses included, goes on the board.
Cannon Fight Lab is built and maintained by Reed Cannon. It's an independent project — no investors, no parent company, no editorial agenda beyond "show the data clearly and let bettors decide."
The site is in active development. Some features are still rolling out. Some data points (per-fight striking accuracy, control time, head-strike ratios, round-by-round cardio drop-off) are coming as additional scraping completes. If you find a bug, a fighter that's missing, or a stat that looks wrong, reach out.
This is not a sportsbook. We don't take bets. We don't issue picks. We don't guarantee outcomes. The stats, edges, and projections shown here describe historical patterns — they don't predict any individual fight. A 56% historical edge still means 44% of the time the pattern doesn't hold.
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