Sunday, June 14, 2020

UFC Eye vs Calvillo Post Happening Thoughts: Vettori smashes, Eye Whines, et al

Some of the folks who missed weight added insult to injury by losing on top of their apparent lack of professionalism. Eye lost a decision in a fight that was largely forgettable. Vettori smashed Roberson after some initial high elbow guillotines defended by Roberson. Once Roberson's flail and spike himself overhead counter failed a couple times, he accepted bottom position, covered up, got punched, then gave up the backtake and his chin simultaenously. After all the back and forth and insistence about Vettori blowing things out of proportion, he got stopped in the first round having done basically nothing to effect offensively. Not a great look.

Rosa took a split decision over Aguilar despite seeing him walk into punches of varying types. Not egregious judging but also not quite the comeback for a guy who's been out for the better part of 2 years due to injury. Also why was this the fight the 3rd one out from the end?

Fili picked up a split decision that should've been unanimous against Jourdain, a debuting UFC fighter. Fili has wisely begun to mix in takedown with his striking centric style to cement rounds in the bank, but an inability to put away a guy in his debut is questionable as to his ability to broach the upper echelon of this very competitive weight class.

I missed the undercard as I was watching the JitzKing middleweight Pro bracket down in Florida broadcast on FloGrappling.

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