Davey Grant vs Elijah Smith
Tale of the tape
How they win
Grant
18 wins on file
- KO/TKO
- 4
- Submission
- 9
- Decision
- 5
Smith
10 wins on file
- KO/TKO
- 5
- Submission
- 2
- Decision
- 3
Career averages
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.
Matchup snapshot
Grant
16 measured UFC bouts, 191.4 minutes
Smith
3 measured UFC bouts, 25.2 minutes
- 5.371027 landed of 2253 thrown (46%)
- Significant strikes landedper minute
- 3.6993 landed of 170 thrown (55%)
- 3.97opponents landed 759 of 1663
- Significant strikes absorbedper minute
- 1.71opponents landed 43 of 89
- 34%10 of 29 attempts
- Takedowns completedof those attempted
- 75%3 of 4 attempts
- 68%conceded 12 of 37 faced
- Takedowns defendedof those faced
- 46%conceded 7 of 13 faced
- 4scored, 4 suffered
- Knockdownsscored and suffered
- 1scored, 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
Davey Grant
3-2 in last 5- W
vs Adrian Luna Martinetti
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs. Zalal
Sig. strikes 162 of 307 · Takedowns 0 of 1
- L
vs Charles Jourdain
Submission · R1 · 3:05
· UFC Fight Night: de Ridder vs. Allen
Sig. strikes 9 of 26
- W
vs Da'Mon Blackshear
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. de Ridder
Sig. strikes 66 of 130
- W
vs Ramon Taveras
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Buckley
Sig. strikes 147 of 290 · Takedowns 0 of 1
- L
vs Daniel Marcos
Decision - Split · R3 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Aspinall vs. Tybura
Sig. strikes 70 of 215 · Takedowns 0 of 1
Elijah Smith
3-0 in last 3- W
vs SuYoung You
Submission · R2 · 1:04
· UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Vallejos
Sig. strikes 16 of 27 · 1 knockdown
- W
vs Toshiomi Kazama
KO/TKO · R1 · 4:10
· UFC Fight Night: Dolidze vs. Hernandez
Sig. strikes 37 of 46
- W
vs Vince Morales
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Rodrigues
Sig. strikes 40 of 97 · Takedowns 3 of 4
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A 40-year-old with 16 UFC fights meets a 24-year-old with three, all wins. Does Grant's volume carry the rounds, or does the fight turn on Smith's scrambles?
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