Built from Grant Dawson’s own numbers — style, standout rate and current form. Not reported prose.
5'10" switch wrestle-grinder with a 11-1 record, age 31. Standout metric: averages 474s of control time per fight; finishes 36% of wins by submission. Form: last 5: WLWWW · on a 3-fight win streak · 322 days off · Elo 1609.
The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.
| Nickname | KGD |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown | Stromsburg, Nebraska |
| Fighting out of | American Top Team |
| Height | 5' 10" |
| Reach | 72.0" |
| Stance | Switch |
| Age | 32 |
| Date of birth | Feb 20, 1994 |
| Weight | 155 lbs. |
| Pro record | 24-3-1 |
| Finish split | pending |
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against every fighter on record. Tap any i for what a score measures.
The moat — every call we've made on this fighter, timestamped and graded in public. Nobody else can copy this.
FightIQ has picked Grant Dawson 7×, 5 correct (5-2 — 71.4% right). The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.
| Date | Opponent | Card | We said | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-09 | Mateusz Rebecki | UFC 328: Chimaev vs Strickland | 74.3% | Correct |
| 2025-12-06 | Manuel Torres | UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs Turner | 73.2% | Missed |
| 2025-01-18 | Diego Ferreira | UFC Fight Night: Rosa vs Perez | 66.2% | Correct |
| 2024-10-12 | Rafa Garcia | UFC Fight Night: Tafa vs Sharaf | 68.6% | Correct |
| 2024-06-01 | Joe Solecki | UFC Fight Night: Holland vs Oleksiejczuk | 58% | Correct |
| 2023-10-07 | King Green | UFC Fight Night: Maness vs Mendonca | 67.2% | Missed |
| 2023-07-01 | Damir Ismagulov | UFC Fight Night: Kutateladze vs Brener | 64.3% | Correct |
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do.
Pro record: 24-3-1. Timeline below is the bouts FightIQ has tracked (most recent first).
