Considering the significance of these fights both of the flyweight fights tonight should be scheduled for 5 rounds IMO. These are both title eliminator fights and what better way to get people accustomed to the weight class/fighters than having fights of this caliber got 25 minutes if needed.
I disagree. This is the problem with 3 round fights being important. The first 2 rounds didn't have much separating them and McCall clearly won the last round.
Round 1 had even striking with McCall getting 2 takes downs = round 1 McCall
Round 2 had even striking with Mighty Mouse getting harder strikes landed = round 2 Mighty Mouse
Round 3 not even close McCall wins easy
I think Mighty Mouse is a fighter kind of like Leonard Garcia who gets gifted decisions based off of looking busier then he actually is. Usually those "speedy" kind of fighters with all their hopping around and throwing distance finding pitter patter punches look a lot more active then they really are. This is Mighty Mouse's second gift decision since being in the UFC, Miguel Torres got robbed against him already too and the same shit happened in Edgar vs. Penn 1 where Penn got robbed based off of hopping around and looking busy (hence the immediate rematch).
Joe B vs Mouse will be sick but I couldn't give half a fuck about it. At least things'll get good when they bring in all the guys from Tachi later in the year so people get to see Mamoru and Jussier
I don't have a problem with Mighty Mouse, but right now after all these gifted decisions, especially considered BOTH gifted decisions got him title shots, I hope Benavidez steamrolls him.
Mamoru's up there in age and he dropped his biggest fights in Shooto including when he was whooping BJ for the title and got caught in a standing guillotine in the 3rd round. Not sure how excited I am about him coming to the division in terms of making a serious run for the title.
Now Jussier is a different story. I'm definitely excited to see what he can do.