I know why this was stupid as fuck. I just read MY own comment in reply to this comment, but I still couldnt quite figure out why this was so retarded. But this must be why. There cannot BE an empirical evidence in first place to any prediction in sporting events. You can make a prediction on your own appraisal of skillsets of a fighter, but it is not impossible to have an empirical evidence in the first place. Its like saying, lets say you murdered someone. But you left no DNA. Lets say that you claim in your own defense, YOU HAVE NO EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE TO CONVICT ME! NO DNA!
But you might have no alibi, but a motive, a possible weapon, eyewitness testimony and so on, all of which could be but circumstantial but enough to convict you. So the question becomes, how can one be so stupid to be talking about EMPIRICAL evidence when talking about predicting sports events in first place? How legitimate is to cry about the absence of the empirical evidence to critique a prediction when it cannot possible exist to begin with? Stupid gonna stupid.