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Grant Dawson vs Mateusz Rebecki

Red corner GrantDawson“KGD”American Top Team · Born in Cambria, Wisconsin, United States · Fights out of Coconut Creek, Florida, United States
VSSettled
Blue corner MateuszRebeckiAmerican Top Team · Born in Gryfice, Poland · Fights out of Szczecin, Poland
Lightweight3 rounds9 May 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • 14 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Rebecki.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
24-3-1
Record
21-5
−1 yr32
Age
33
+3″5' 10"
Height
5' 7"
+6″72″
Reach
66″
Switch
Stance
Southpaw
+714
UFC bouts
7
+5%6/1155% of wins
Finishes
2/450% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
American Top Team
Cambria, Wisconsin, United States
Born in
Gryfice, Poland
Coconut Creek, Florida, United States
Fights out of
Szczecin, Poland
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. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. 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.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Grant Dawson
74.3% confidentHIGH
Method calledDEC 51%
Vs the market+13.0pp
Market had our pick at61%
The fight
Grant Dawson
WIN✗
How it endedSUB
Round3 of 3
Clock4:42
Called it We called Grant Dawson at 74.3% and Grant Dawson won. The method call missed.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Grant Dawson13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 15BODY46%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Mateusz Rebecki8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 10BODY0%0 landedLEGS12%1 of 1
13 of 21
Sig.
strikes
8 of 11
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
2:37
Control
0:50
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 5Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 4Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Rebecki
Grant Dawson20 sig landed
HEAD50%10 of 48BODY40%8 of 17LEGS10%2 of 4
Mateusz Rebecki24 sig landed
HEAD83%20 of 45BODY4%1 of 2LEGS12%3 of 4
20 of 69
Sig.
strikes
24 of 51
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:14
Control
1:29
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 2
Round 34:42 of action3 sub attemptsEnded 4:42
Grant Dawson2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Mateusz Rebecki1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 1
2 of 4
Sig.
strikes
1 of 2
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:17
Control
0:03
0
Knock-
downs
0
3
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Grant Dawson

Round
3
Clock
4:42
Method
SUB

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Mike Beltran.

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
3.05 / 15m
9.18 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.10 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
50%
1.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Mateusz Rebecki

3.05takedowns / 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 (5.19 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was published.

Grant DawsonMateusz RebeckiPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Grant Dawson vs Mateusz Rebecki — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Grant Dawson and Mateusz Rebecki from May 02 to May 09, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Grant Dawson moves from 58% to 66% and Mateusz Rebecki from 42% to 34%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was published before the window opened, not at that price.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%May 2May 4May 6May 8May 9▲ we flagged Grant Dawson (HIGH) here66%34%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Grant Dawson's implied chance moved up from 58% to 66% (+8.5pp). Our pick was published before this window opened — so the gold marker sits at the first snapshot we hold, not at a price we were reacting to.

Our published call had Grant Dawson at 74.3%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 66.5% — our number sat 7.8pp above the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
SeriesOpenLowHighLast captureMove
Grant Dawson — sportsbook consensus56.6%54.9%91.4%91.4%+34.8pp
Mateusz Rebecki — sportsbook consensus43.4%8.6%45.1%8.6%−34.8pp
Grant Dawson — Polymarket58.0%54.5%66.5%66.5%+8.5pp
Mateusz Rebecki — Polymarket42.0%33.5%45.5%33.5%−8.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,588 snapshots on file · window May 02 18:46–May 09 23:57Z · last capture May 09, 23:57Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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