Built from Dan Severn’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler
6' 2" southpaw submission grappler campaigning at Heavyweight. 9 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 5 submission, 3 decision.
The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. 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. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.
| Nickname | The Beast |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown (per Sherdog) | Coldwater, Michigan |
| Camp | The Beast Academy |
| Height | 6' 2" |
| Reach | pending |
| Stance | Southpaw |
| Age | 68 |
| Date of birth | Jun 08, 1958 |
| Weight | 250 lbs. |
| Pro record | 101-19-1 |
| UFC record | UFC 9-4 first fight 1994-12-16 · last fight 2000-09-22 |
| Finish split | 9 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 5 submission, 3 decision |
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Heavyweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
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. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.
No takedown data
UFCStats records no takedown or submission activity for this fighter in either direction — usually a fighter with no UFC bout on the tape. A row of zeroes would read as a measured weakness; this is an absence, and we show it as one.
Pro record: 101-19-1. In the UFC: 9-4. Dan Severn’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.
Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-09-22 | L | Pedro Rizzo | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 27: Ultimate Bad Boyz |
| 1997-02-07 | L | Mark Coleman | Submission | R1 | UFC 12: Judgement Day |
| 1996-05-17 | W | Ken Shamrock | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 9: Motor City Madness |
| 1995-12-16 | W | David Abbott | Decision (unanimous) | R1 | UFC - Ultimate Ultimate '95 |
| 1995-12-16 | W | Oleg Taktarov | Decision (unanimous) | R2 | UFC - Ultimate Ultimate '95 |
| 1995-12-16 | W | Paul Varelans | Submission | R1 | UFC - Ultimate Ultimate '95 |
| 1995-07-14 | L | Ken Shamrock | Submission | R1 | UFC 6: Clash of the Titans |
| 1995-04-07 | W | Joe Charles | Submission | R1 | UFC 5: The Return of the Beast |
| 1995-04-07 | W | Dave Beneteau | Submission | R1 | UFC 5: The Return of the Beast |
| 1995-04-07 | W | Oleg Taktarov | TKO (doctor) | R1 | UFC 5: The Return of the Beast |
| 1994-12-16 | W | Anthony Macias | Submission | R1 | UFC 4: Revenge of the Warriors |
| 1994-12-16 | W | Marcus Bossett | Submission | R1 | UFC 4: Revenge of the Warriors |
| 1994-12-16 | L | Royce Gracie | Submission | R1 | UFC 4: Revenge of the Warriors |
Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.
The 7 cities Dan Severn has fought a UFC bout in and the hometown on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.
Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.