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A 38-year-old coming off thirteen months out against an unbeaten All-American wrestler with one UFC fight and six inches of reach on him.
Drakkar Klose has not fought since 16 August 2025, when he out-pointed Edson Barboza over three rounds at UFC 319. That win is the best thing on his recent record and it is also the problem with reading it: Barboza's composite sits at 44.6, and he was 39 years old on the night. Klose is 38 now, he has spent the whole of 2026 out of the cage, and he is back against a man who took up the sport at 30…
Klose (16-3-1) is 38 and last competed on 16 August 2025, a unanimous decision over Edson Barboza — his sixth win in seven fights. Before that: a first-round KO defeat to Joel Alvarez in December 2024, decisions over Joaquim Silva and Rafa Garcia, and a first-round KO of Joe Solecki. Composite 56.0, momentum 99.0, quality-of-victory 31.5, chin 54.0, fade index 100.0, finish rate 0.20. The 7.94 volume score is his whole game; the 3.54 striking score is why it goes to the cards.
Gantt (12-0) is 33, unbeaten, and has one UFC fight — a second-round TKO of Artur Minev at the Apex in May 2026. He earned the contract on the Contender Series with a first-round guillotine over Adam Livingston. An All-American wrestler at NC State who did not start MMA until he was 30, he now trains under Daniel Cormier and Bob Cook at The Academy in Gilroy. His database ratings — 80.7 composite, 100.0 chin, 55.0 quality-of-victory, 10.0 striking, 0.0 wrestling — all derive from that one fight and should be read as a sample of one, not a profile.
Klose's 54.0 chin rating against a 193.0cm-reach finisher with ten stoppages in twelve wins
Thirteen months out of competition at 38, against a man who has fought twice in the last year
Gantt's 0.0 wrestling score versus an All-American record and five career submissions — the model is reading one fight
Klose's 7.94 volume as the only route to the cards, and the fifteen centimetres he has to cross to use it
Gantt's step up in class: Artur Minev is rated 6.2, Klose is rated 56.0
Every Gantt rating in this write-up comes from a single UFC fight and should not be weighted as a profile
Klose has been out for thirteen months; ring rust is real but is not something the database can score
A 5-1 recent run gives Klose the only proven fifteen-minute engine in the fight, and Gantt has never needed one
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