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History · 2020 · UFC Fight Night: Figueiredo vs. Benavidez 2 · Grant Dawson vs Nad Narimani
From the tape · 18 Jul 2020

Grant Dawson vs Nad Narimani

UFC Fight Night: Figueiredo vs. Benavidez 2 · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Grant Dawson beat Nad Narimani

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Catch WeightMain cardReferee · Daniel Movahedi

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

Red corner GrantDawson“KGD”American Top Team · Stromsburg, Nebraska
VSOn the tape
NN
Blue corner NadNarimani“Smiler”Team Alpha Male · Bristol
Catch Weight3 rounds18 Jul 2020
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Carries 14 points more striking defence than Dawson.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
24-3-1
Record
12-4
−7 yr26
Age
33
+2″5' 10"
Height
5' 8"
+2″72″
Reach
70″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
3
2/367% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Team Alpha Male
Stromsburg, Nebraska
From
Bristol
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. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Grant Dawson14 sig landed
HEAD36%5 of 7BODY7%1 of 2LEGS57%8 of 8
Nad Narimani5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 8BODY40%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 17
Sig.
strikes
5 of 10
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:55
Control
0:09
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Dawson firstDavid Lethaby10–9Anders Ohlsson10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Grant Dawson6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 10BODY17%1 of 1LEGS33%2 of 4
Nad Narimani2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%1 of 1
6 of 15
Sig.
strikes
2 of 6
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:03
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dawson firstDavid Lethaby10–8Anders Ohlsson10–8Clemens Werner10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Grant Dawson33 sig landed
HEAD52%17 of 57BODY9%3 of 11LEGS39%13 of 15
Nad Narimani24 sig landed
HEAD54%13 of 46BODY42%10 of 13LEGS4%1 of 1
33 of 83
Sig.
strikes
24 of 60
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:13
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 33Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dawson firstDavid Lethaby9–10Anders Ohlsson10–9Clemens Werner10–9

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Daniel Movahedi
Grant DawsonNad Narimani
Official totals — Grant Dawson first
JudgeTotal
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide29–27
Anders Ohlsson1.9 avg spread · 42% wide30–26
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide30–27

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 16 scored, Grant Dawson first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–25
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press30–26
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–26
Matthew Wells FanSided.com30–26
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–26
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl30–26
Phil Murphy ESPN30–26
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–26
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com30–26
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–26
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–26
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–26
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–26
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport30–26
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–26
MM AMania.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Dawson · 55%30-27 Dawson · 25%30-25 Dawson · 10%29-27 Dawson · 5%29-28 Dawson · 2%

40 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Grant Dawson

3.58takedowns / 15 min
3.58 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.92 / 15m
9.18 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.68 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
41%
1.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Nad Narimani

1.92takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Grant Dawson↑ +2.3pp
open 69.8%close 72.1%
Nad Narimani↓ −2.3pp
open 30.2%close 27.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Grant Dawson opened at 69.8% and closed at 72.1% (+2.3pp), with Nad Narimani moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Grant Dawson-260-29369.8%72.1%+2.3pp
Nad Narimani22024630.2%27.9%−2.3pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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