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Bilal Hasan vs Luis Gurule prediction

UFC 334 · Sunday, November 15, 2026. Our model gives Bilal Hasan a 76% chance to win.

Bilal Hasan 1 UFC fight
Luis Gurule 5 UFC fights
Market: Hasan 86% · Gurule 14% We disagree with the market by 10 pts

Breakdown

Bilal Hasan is the younger and more dangerous fighter on paper, but his UFC sample is a single fight, so his numbers are heavily blended toward league averages and shouldn't be read as a real profile. Luis Gurule has five UFC fights and a clearer picture: he throws more (5.58 significant strikes a minute to Hasan's 4.56) but absorbs a lot (6.36 a minute), which makes his fights messy. Hasan's knockdown rate of 0.83 per 15 minutes is well above Gurule's 0.05, and Gurule's finish rate is just 7%. Neither man wrestles much. Gurule's takedown accuracy is only 20%, and both defend takedowns reasonably well. Gurule is 33 and carries a 64-inch reach at 65 inches tall.

Our model gives Hasan 76% mainly because of Elo (1528 against 1434), Gurule's weak smoothed win rate of 29%, and the gap in how many strikes each absorbs and how often each lands knockdowns. The market is higher on Hasan at 86%, a 10-point gap. The likeliest reason is that the market sees things the model can't, such as Hasan's regional record, his camp, or how he looked in his lone UFC fight. Our model only knows that one fight and treats it cautiously.

Key question: can Gurule's volume survive Hasan's power long enough to turn this into a grind?

Written by AI from the numbers below; it has no access to news or injuries.

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Tale of the tape (UFC fights only)

Bilal HasanLuis Gurule
UFC record1-01-4
Rating (Elo)15281434
Sig. strikes landed / min4.565.58
Sig. strikes absorbed / min3.676.36
Striking accuracy42%40%
Striking defence52%59%
Takedowns / 15 min1.540.92
Takedown defence65%72%
Submission attempts / 15 min0.330.32
Knockdowns / 15 min0.830.05
Finish rate50%7%
StreakW1L1
Days since last fight78169
Age2533
Height—5'5"
Reach—64"

Rates for fighters with few UFC fights are blended toward league averages. The pick is logged with a timestamp before the event and graded on the track record, win or lose.