Grant Dawson delivered a dominant efficiency in opposition to Diego Ferreira, incomes his tenth profession win contained in the Octagon at UFC 311.
Ferreira appeared to steer the dance along with his boxing within the opening spherical, however Dawson had different plans and promptly put his opponent on the mat for almost all of the primary 5 minutes.
That pattern continued within the second stanza, a lot to the chagrin of the stay crowd who started displaying Dawson with boos after seeing him safe yet one more takedown. With Ferreira pinned in opposition to the fence, Dawson started reigning down some vicious elbows. Sadly, they didn’t do sufficient harm to justify a stoppage, sending us into the third and last spherical.
Choosing up proper the place he left off, Dawson rapidly labored Ferreira again all the way down to the mat lower than a minute into the spherical. After about 60 seconds on the mat, referee Frank Trigg known as for each fighters to face up. Dawson then proceeded to clip Ferreira with a stiff proper hand earlier than sending him again to the mat nearly instantly.
With Dawson persevering with to work and transitioning to Ferreira’s again, Trigg was content material to let Dawson do his factor on the mat, permitting the clock to expire and sending us to the scorecards.
Official Outcome: Grant Dawson def. Diego Ferreira through unanimous choice (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
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