#ufc301

Michel Pereira drops Ihor Potieria with a 1-2 in the opening minute of the first round. Potieria goes to the ground and tries to throw up his legs to block and Pereira passes by literally back-flipping over Potieria's guard. Potieria tries to get up but ends up in a guillotine and is forced to tap while standing. He still ends up going out though and crumbles to the floor.

Props to Munguia. He fought well early, recovered after getting knocked down and had moments late but just got caught up in Canelo's game. The counters were there from round 4 on and Canelo made Munguia pay for everything he threw. Munguia has very little in the way of defensive awareness. Canelo was blasting him with hooks to the body for Munguia to immediately drop his hands and then Canelo would hit him upstairs.

Steve Erceg made a great account of himself for a guy in his 4th UFC fight facing the best flyweight in the division. Really pieced up Pantoja on the feet in a way that basically nobody has since he fought like Figgy.

Just too many poor decisions. The obvious ones were the late takedown attempts. He thought Pantoja was fading and kept shooting only to have Pantoja force a scramble and end up on top. That's what sealed that final round for him. But even early on, he was good at defending takedowns until he kept putting himself into the fence. When this fight first got announced, I think my initial question was when Pantoja charges forward behind long combos, what does Erceg look like defending takedowns? And we saw that he backs up in straight lines to the fence where even when he didn't get immediately taken down, he had Pantoja on his hips controlling action. Still, a good performance from Erceg. The boxing and elbow skills are real, though not fully realized. He'll be back before too long. Just give him a 12-18 months.

Leg kicks hurt Petrino and turn him into a wrestler. Smith defends with a guillotine and Petrino tries to power through it only to end up deeper and get submitted. Lots of funny guillotine action tonight?

Brito destroys Shore with leg kicks. Like he kicked Shore's leg so much through the first 6-7 minutes, that it swelled up. Then he kicked it again, Shore went to check and it exploded. The ref called the doctor in as Brito was punching Shore in the shin along the cage and the doctor stuck his whole ass finger into the cut. Then he stopped the fight.