Tommy Gantt’s submission of Drakkar Klose turns a short résumé into a serious grappling signal

Tommy Gantt did more than preserve his unbeaten record at Noche UFC. He showed how his game can function across three rounds against an experienced opponent, submitting Drakkar Klose in the final period of their lightweight prelim at Desert Diamond Arena.

MMA News reported that Gantt used his jab to enter, repeatedly put Klose on the floor and controlled him along the fence before finishing with a reverse triangle choke. The result moves Gantt’s archived record to 12-0 with one no contest, including three consecutive wins in our database: a first-round submission of Adam Livingston, a second-round knockout of Artur Minev and now a third-round submission of Klose.

That sequence matters to bettors, but not because three finishes automatically make Gantt a fighter to back at any price. The actionable part is the mechanism behind the latest win: range management leading to takedown entries, positional control surviving resistance and a submission arriving after Gantt had already imposed a wrestling-heavy fight.

Gantt won where the matchup was most asymmetric

Klose entered as the more active striker by career rate, landing 4.25 significant strikes per minute to Gantt’s 2.92. A clean, sustained kickboxing match therefore offered Klose his clearest route to competing. Gantt prevented that version of the fight from taking shape.

His physical and statistical profile pointed toward a different contest. Gantt had a 6.5-inch reach advantage, averaged 11.29 takedowns per 15 minutes and carried a 100 percent takedown-defence figure. Klose averaged 1.49 takedowns per 15 minutes, defended them at 69 percent and had not recorded a submission attempt across 33 rounds with available round data.