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History · 2024 · UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Buckley · Davey Grant vs Ramon Taveras
From the tape · 14 Dec 2024

Davey Grant vs Ramon Taveras

UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Buckley · Tampa, Florida, USA
Result

Davey Grant beat Ramon Taveras

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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 DaveyGrant“Dangerous”Syndicate MMA · Bishop Auckland
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RamonTaveras“The Savage”Bulldog Boxing · Jacksonville, Florida
Bantamweight3 rounds14 Dec 2024
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 11 more than Taveras.
18-8
Record
10-4
38
Age
−8 yr30
5' 8"
Height
5' 8"
69″
Reach
+1″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+1112
UFC bouts
1
4/667% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Syndicate MMA
Gym
Bulldog Boxing
Bishop Auckland
From
Jacksonville, Florida
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
Davey Grant39 sig landed
HEAD13%5 of 28BODY38%15 of 22LEGS49%19 of 22
Ramon Taveras12 sig landed
HEAD83%10 of 32BODY17%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
39 of 72
Sig.
strikes
12 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 39Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Grant firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Christopher Edgehill10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Davey Grant45 sig landed
HEAD36%16 of 46BODY27%12 of 22LEGS38%17 of 21
Ramon Taveras25 sig landed
HEAD92%23 of 47BODY4%1 of 1LEGS4%1 of 1
45 of 89
Sig.
strikes
25 of 49
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 45Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Grant firstDerek Cleary9–10Eric Colón10–9Christopher Edgehill10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Davey Grant63 sig landed
HEAD46%29 of 84BODY24%15 of 23LEGS30%19 of 22
Ramon Taveras32 sig landed
HEAD94%30 of 70BODY6%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
63 of 129
Sig.
strikes
32 of 73
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 63Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 32Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Grant firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Christopher Edgehill10–9

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 · Keith Peterson
Davey GrantRamon Taveras
Official totals — Davey Grant first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Christopher Edgehill30–27

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 — 13 scored, Davey Grant first · unofficial

Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–27
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–27
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com30–27
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated29–28
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Grant · 89%29-28 Grant · 9%29-28 Taveras · 3%

35 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.

Davey Grant

0.95takedowns / 15 min
0.95 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
2.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
38%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Ramon Taveras

0.00takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Davey Grant↑ +5.8pp
open 43.2%close 49.0%
Ramon Taveras↓ −5.8pp
open 56.8%close 51.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Davey Grant opened at 43.2% and closed at 49.0% (+5.8pp), with Ramon Taveras 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
Davey Grant122-10543.2%49.0%+5.8pp
Ramon Taveras-145-11456.8%51.0%−5.8pp
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% · dated 2024-12-15 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · 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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