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Events · UFC 311: Makhachev vs. Moicano · Grant Dawson vs Diego Ferreira
From the tape · 18 Jan 2025

Grant Dawson vs Diego Ferreira

UFC 311: Makhachev vs. Moicano · Inglewood, California, USA
Result

Grant Dawson beat Diego Ferreira

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Frank Trigg

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
Blue corner DiegoFerreiraFortis MMA · Careiro da Varzea, Amazonas
Lightweight3 rounds18 Jan 2025
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 7 of 10 UFC wins.
24-3-1
Record
20-7
−10 yr30
Age
40
+1″5' 10"
Height
5' 9"
72″
Reach
+2″74″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
12
UFC bouts
+315
6/1060% of wins
Finishes
+10%7/1070% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Fortis MMA
Stromsburg, Nebraska
From
Careiro da Varzea, Amazonas
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 Dawson21 sig landed
HEAD90%19 of 28BODY0%0 of 1LEGS10%2 of 2
Diego Ferreira11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 9BODY18%2 of 3LEGS36%4 of 4
21 of 31
Sig.
strikes
11 of 16
3 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:11
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 5Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dawson firstRaphael Davis10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Felicia Oh10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Grant Dawson21 sig landed
HEAD100%21 of 39BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Diego Ferreira17 sig landed
HEAD88%15 of 24BODY12%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
21 of 39
Sig.
strikes
17 of 28
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:44
Control
0:18
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 4Ground 1
Judges · this round · Dawson firstRaphael Davis10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Felicia Oh10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Grant Dawson14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 24BODY21%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Diego Ferreira13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 15BODY15%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 28
Sig.
strikes
13 of 17
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:55
Control
0:02
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Dawson firstRaphael Davis10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Felicia Oh10–9

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 · Frank Trigg
Grant DawsonDiego Ferreira
Official totals — Grant Dawson first
JudgeTotal
Raphael Davis30–27
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide30–27
Felicia Oh30–27

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 — 15 scored, Grant Dawson first · unofficial

Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Jake Noecker Home of Fight30–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–27
Drake Riggs Uncrowned30–27
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated30–27
John Pollock POST Wrestling30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Dawson · 92%30-26 Dawson · 5%30-27 Ferreira · 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
0.82 / 15m
9.18 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.73 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
30%
1.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Diego Ferreira

0.82takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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 71.8%close 69.5%
Diego Ferreira↑ +2.3pp
open 28.2%close 30.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Grant Dawson opened at 71.8% and closed at 69.5% (−2.3pp), with Diego Ferreira 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-298-26671.8%69.5%−2.3pp
Diego Ferreira24021428.2%30.5%+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% · dated 2025-01-19 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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