Fight completed
Grant Dawson vs Nurullo Aliev
Grant Dawson def. Nurullo Aliev · Decision - Unanimous · Round 3, 5:00
Tale of the tape
How they win
Dawson
24 wins on file
- KO/TKO
- 5
- Submission
- 14
- Decision
- 5
Aliev
12 wins on file
- KO/TKO
- 2
- Submission
- 0
- Decision
- 10
How these figures are measured
- Sig. strikes landed per minute
- Significant strikes landed, divided by minutes fought. Career figure.
- Strike accuracy, all strikes
- Every strike landed as a share of every strike thrown, significant or not, over the career. ESPN's own figure. It is not significant-strike accuracy, which runs lower.
- Takedowns per 15 minutes
- Takedowns landed for every 15 minutes fought, the length of a three-round bout. Career figure.
- Takedown accuracy
- Takedowns landed as a share of those attempted. Career figure.
- Submission attempts per 15 minutes
- Submission attempts for every 15 minutes fought. Career figure.
- Finish rate
- Share of the wins on file that ended by knockout, technical knockout or submission.
- Days since last fight
- From the last bout on file to the date of this one.
Records, measurements and career averages are reported by ESPN. The UFC record, last fight, finish rate and win methods are counted by Statwell from the bouts on file for each fighter, which can be fewer than the full professional record. No striking or grappling averages are available for both fighters yet.
Matchup snapshot
Dawson
15 measured UFC bouts, 169.7 minutes
Aliev
4 measured UFC bouts, 60.0 minutes
- 3.11528 landed of 1032 thrown (51%)
- Significant strikes landedper minute
- 1.97118 landed of 284 thrown (42%)
- 2.20opponents landed 374 of 678
- Significant strikes absorbedper minute
- 1.67opponents landed 100 of 226
- 39%41 of 105 attempts
- Takedowns completedof those attempted
- 58%14 of 24 attempts
- 70%conceded 3 of 10 faced
- Takedowns defendedof those faced
- 80%conceded 2 of 10 faced
- 1scored, 3 suffered
- Knockdownsscored and suffered
- 0scored, 0 suffered
About these statistics
Counted by Statwell from ESPN’s per-bout figures over each fighter’s measured UFC bouts. Small samples move quickly: read each figure with the number of bouts behind it. Nothing here is adjusted for the level of past opponents.
Recent form
Grant Dawson
4-1 in last 5- W
vs Mateusz Rębecki
Submission · R3 · 4:42
· UFC 328: Chimaev vs. Strickland
Sig. strikes 35 of 94 · Takedowns 1 of 3
- L
vs Manuel Torres
KO/TKO · R1 · 2:25
· UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2
Sig. strikes 8 of 21 · Takedowns 0 of 2
- W
vs Diego Ferreira
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC 311: Makhachev vs. Moicano
Sig. strikes 56 of 98 · Takedowns 6 of 11
- W
vs Rafa Garcia
KO/TKO · R2 · 1:42
· UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Taira
Sig. strikes 44 of 90 · Takedowns 2 of 4
- W
vs Joe Solecki
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier
Sig. strikes 46 of 70 · Takedowns 3 of 3
Nurullo Aliev
4-0 in last 4- W
vs Mike Davis
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Guskov
Sig. strikes 13 of 34 · Takedowns 8 of 13
- W
vs Shem Rock
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker
Sig. strikes 51 of 117 · Takedowns 1 of 5
- W
vs Joe Solecki
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Dern vs Ribas 2
Sig. strikes 35 of 88 · Takedowns 2 of 2
- W
vs Rafael Alves
Decision - Majority · R3 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Muniz vs. Allen
Sig. strikes 19 of 45 · Takedowns 3 of 4
Statwell Intel
The full analysis is published.
Grant Dawson and Nurullo Aliev both build much of their UFC offence around wrestling and control. Dawson has the deeper submission-winning record; Aliev’s four UFC bouts have all reached decisions. The key question is who can turn the first grappling exchanges into effective offence, and how the other responds.
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