UFC Vegas 64: Grant Dawson Submits Olympian Mark Madsen

Grant Dawson put along the finest performance of his career at UFC Vegas 64, defeating Olympic wrestler Mark Madsen with wrestling of his own.

Highly-touted wrestling prospects Grant Dawson and Mark Madsen faced off at UFC Vegas 64. Dawson came in with a unexceptionable future and only one loss and one yank on his record. Meanwhile, Madsen entered the fight with an undefeated record, several Greco-Roman wrestling World Championships medals, and an Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling silver medal for his country, Denmark. However, he needed to start making a run for the title quickly at 38 years old.

His opponent was ten years younger; Dawson, now at a new gym in Kill Cliff MMA, is known for his rear-naked chokes. On the other hand, Madsen is obviously known for his Greco-Roman style takedowns. As a result, it was interesting to see if their wrestling would cancel out and to see who would have the wholesomeness if indeed it did hit the ground. Additionally, the pound-and-a-half weight miss from Dawson could be a factor, though he did take the fight on short notice.

The fighters came out and Madsen quickly rushed forward and landed a flurry of strikes that sat Dawson awkwardly lanugo to his butt. Dawson tried to get a takedown from there but Madsen stuffed it and landed nonflexible hammerfists. Then Dawson tried again. This time was worldly-wise to get in deep on the hips of his foe with a folk-style double leg, something Madsen would not have seen in Greco-Roman wrestling, and completed it.

Now on the mat, Dawson quickly used his grappling to pass baby-sit and take the when of the Olympian. He was worldly-wise to get both hooks in and then switched to a tight soul triangle, the position that Dawson specializes in. Minutes passed as the pair handfought and Dawson tried to sneak a wring under the chin. Madsen was so occupied with staying out of the submission that he was unable to do anything to well-spoken the soul triangle and get when to his feet. His defensive strategy paid off though as he was worldly-wise to survive for increasingly than four minutes until the tintinnabulate rang. Despite reacting immensely to forfeiture early on, Dawson won the round with his constructive grappling and a smattering of ground and pound. That early strike from Madsen saved him from giving up a 10-8, surely.

The second round started with unhonest striking. Dawson tried for a low single leg but Madsen was worldly-wise to pull yonder and get out once. The second time Dawson succeeded in pushing Madsen to the fence and getting a largest grip on the single leg. Madsen scrutinizingly succeeded in kicking out a few times, Dawson only had a grip a few inches whilom the foot, but he stayed on it like a dog with a unorthodoxy and was worldly-wise to get Madsen to the mat. Dawson settled in half baby-sit but Madsen was worldly-wise to scoot and get his when up to the fence. However, halfway through the round, Dawson flattened the Dane out then and got when in half guard. This round, Madsen was worldly-wise to alimony from giving up his back, but was unable to get when to his feet without turning his when to Dawson. So, once again, Mark Madsen stayed in a marrow position for the vast majority of the round. His BJJ had unmistakably not unprotected up to his wrestling as his baby-sit was quite passable and he was unable to use his legs to make space to get when to his feet.

Grant Dawson opened the final round with kicks, to the legs and teeps to the body. He then got a bit fancy with a spinning when kick to the soul even. One leg kick took Madsen off his feet and the follow-up dial seemed to stun Madsen. Dawson kept slamming leg kicks into Madsen, who had no defense for them. After just over a minute, Dawson landed one that made Madsen fall to the ground. The Kill Cliff MMA prospect got on top of Madsen once more, and then switched to a when take. Exhausted and write-up up, Madsen was unable to defend the wring this time and Grant Dawson quickly locked up his patented rear-naked choke, standing his impressive undefeated run in the UFC and ending the career-long undefeated record of his opponent. Dawson was so impressive that this could plane earn him a top-fifteen opponent in his next fight.