\u201cKGD\u201d was fighting for much more than a win.<\/p>\n
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight Grant Dawson scored a huge third-round submission victory over Polish action fighter Mateusz Rebecki at UFC 328<\/a> this past weekend inside Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.<\/p>\n \u201cMy wife and I need a vacation, we went through a lot this week \u2014 we went through a little bit of a family crisis,\u201d Dawson said. \u201cMy wife and I were expecting our first baby, and we found out on Monday that we lost the baby, so it\u2019s been a rough week. My amazing wife soldiered through it, toughed it out, no emotion, got me through this, and I promised her a little vacation for us to go and do our thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite the devastating news, Dawson still made the walk and delivered one of the biggest wins of his UFC career \u2014 though he admitted the emotions hit him afterward.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m going to sound like such a dick, but it wasn\u2019t hard for me,\u201d Dawson said when asked about trying to bury the tragedy. \u201cIt was compartmentalized, it was put away. We told our friends and family, and I\u2019ll deal with it later. I was a bit emotional in the cage, and that had something to do with it.\u201d<\/p>\n The victory snapped Dawson back into the win column in emphatic fashion and could push him back toward the UFC Lightweight rankings<\/a> again.<\/p>\n Dawson (24-3-1) now improves to 12-2-1 inside the Octagon.<\/p>\n