This Saturday Buckley vs Malott · Rogers Place Edmonton AB Canada See this week's picks →
FightIQ · Record · Dan Severn
DS

Dan Severn

UFC 9-4Pro 101-19-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Dan Severn’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler

UFC recordUFC 9-4 first fight 1994-12-16 · last fight 2000-09-22
Pro record101-19-1
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W W W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age68
Height6' 2"
StanceSouthpaw

6' 2" southpaw submission grappler campaigning at Heavyweight. 9 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 5 submission, 3 decision.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

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.

NicknameThe Beast
NationalityUnited States
Born inColdwater, Michigan, United States Wikipedia
Fights out ofMontrose, Michigan Wikipedia
CampThe Beast Academy
Height6' 2"
Reachpending
StanceSouthpaw
Age68
Date of birthJun 08, 1958
Weight250 lbs.
Pro record101-19-1
UFC recordUFC 9-4 first fight 1994-12-16 · last fight 2000-09-22
Finish split9 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 5 submission, 3 decision

FightIQ Metrics

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.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Heavyweight.
Strikingn/a
Defencen/a
Grappling / TDn/a
Cardio No round past the first on our tapen/a
Chin69
Fight IQ69

Strike zones

Strike zones

Dan Severn

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD72.9%ACC 39%BODY17.8%ACC 91%LEGS9.3%FIELD 14%
FightIQ read Ground striker 77% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
72.9% acc 39%+5.9 vs field
BODY
17.8% acc 91%−0.7 vs field
LEGS
9.3%−5.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 16%CLINCH 7%GROUND 77%

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.

13 UFC fights · 118 landed

Takedowns

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.

Deep stats facts

Career and last-five-fight figures from round-by-round UFC records, with where each ranks among every UFC fighter who has fought enough to be ranked. Tap a stat name for the full leaderboard.

 CareerLast 5 fights
Striking
Strikes landedSignificant strikes landed per minute of fight time.
1.47/min#1,199 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.36/minsmall sample (3 fights)
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
0.45/min#1 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
1.27/minsmall sample (3 fights)
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
45.6%#701 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
26.1%#1,733 of 1,752 ranked in the UFC
Durability
Knockdowns per 100 head strikesKnockdowns suffered for every 100 head strikes absorbed. Lower means more punishment taken without going down.
3.70small sample (13 fights)
5.88small sample (5 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
8%#291 of 803 ranked in the UFC
20%#941 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
100.0%small sample (13 fights)
100.0%small sample (5 fights)
Get-up speedSeconds the opponent stays in control after each takedown landed on this fighter. Lower means back on their feet faster.
—not enough data to compute
—not enough data to compute
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.00 per 15 min#1,003 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.00 per 15 minsmall sample (3 fights)
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
0%#956 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#1,248 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
38%#39 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
20%#457 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC

Every figure is built from UFC fights that have round-by-round data. Some older bouts do not, and are left out rather than estimated. Figures to 2000-09-22.

Recent form

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.

L · vs Pedro RizzoKO/TKO · R12000-09-22 · HeavyweightL · vs Mark ColemanSubmission · R11997-02-07 · Heavyweight TitleW · vs Ken ShamrockDecision (split) · R31996-05-17 · Superfight ChampionshipW · vs David AbbottDecision (unanimous) · R11995-12-16 · Open WeightW · vs Oleg TaktarovDecision (unanimous) · R21995-12-16 · Ultimate Ultimate '95 Tournament TitleW · vs Paul VarelansSubmission · R11995-12-16 · Open WeightL · vs Ken ShamrockSubmission · R11995-07-14 · Superfight ChampionshipW · vs Joe CharlesSubmission · R11995-04-07 · Open Weight

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.

Full UFC career — 13 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2000-09-22LPedro RizzoKO/TKOR1UFC 27: Ultimate Bad Boyz
1997-02-07LMark ColemanSubmissionR1UFC 12: Judgement Day
1996-05-17WKen ShamrockDecision (split)R3UFC 9: Motor City Madness
1995-12-16WDavid AbbottDecision (unanimous)R1UFC - Ultimate Ultimate '95
1995-12-16WOleg TaktarovDecision (unanimous)R2UFC - Ultimate Ultimate '95
1995-12-16WPaul VarelansSubmissionR1UFC - Ultimate Ultimate '95
1995-07-14LKen ShamrockSubmissionR1UFC 6: Clash of the Titans
1995-04-07WJoe CharlesSubmissionR1UFC 5: The Return of the Beast
1995-04-07WDave BeneteauSubmissionR1UFC 5: The Return of the Beast
1995-04-07WOleg TaktarovTKO (doctor)R1UFC 5: The Return of the Beast
1994-12-16WAnthony MaciasSubmissionR1UFC 4: Revenge of the Warriors
1994-12-16WMarcus BossettSubmissionR1UFC 4: Revenge of the Warriors
1994-12-16LRoyce GracieSubmissionR1UFC 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.

On the map

The 7 cities Dan Severn has fought a UFC bout in. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Charlotte, North Carolina, USA — 3 bouts, 1995Denver, Colorado, USA — 3 bouts, 1995Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA — 3 bouts, 1994Casper, Wyoming, USA — 1 bout, 1995Detroit, Michigan, USA — 1 bout, 1996Dothan, Alabama, USA — 1 bout, 1997New Orleans, Louisiana, USA — 1 bout, 2000
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA3 bouts · 1995Denver, Colorado, USA3 bouts · 1995Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA3 bouts · 1994Casper, Wyoming, USA1 bout · 1995Detroit, Michigan, USA1 bout · 1996Dothan, Alabama, USA1 bout · 1997New Orleans, Louisiana, USA1 bout · 2000

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

← See the full public record