What a great card top to bottom. I think the flyweight fights were excellent and I cannot wait for their to be a rematch between Ian McCall and Demetrious Johnson. I scored the fight for Ian McCall 29-27. I gave the first round a 10, 10, as I thought Ian excelled with his takedowns and work on the ground, while Demetrious had tagged him a few times on the feet, all and all I didn't believe there was a winner in that round so I scored it 10-10. 2nd Round I thought Demetrious did a much better job using lateral movement and opened up with his striking landing 48 strikes in Round 2 with 35 of them being significant strikes according to Fight Metric which is why I gave Johnson the round 10-9. Round 3 I thought was the most decisive round of all 3, Ian McCall dominated the round landed 83 total strikes with 24 of them being significant. Now I realize some people will argue that 59 strikes not being significant cannot give you a 10-8 round. I would argue it would for these reason: the majority of those strikes were landed when in dominate positions on the ground, Ian was landing enough punches to where the referee was close to stopping the fight late, and Demetrious offered little once he was taken down midway through the third round. A 10-8 is awarded when one fighter dominates another fighter in either the grappling or the striking aspect of that round.
I will get to the other fights in later posts, just wanted to get back into this blog.
