Lower leg kicks that do no damage whatsoever should be scored 1/10th of a takedown. This is MMA, not some point scoring karate match! Not all leg kicks are equal!!! Quantity is nothing, Quality causing damage is everything.
Most of the lower leg kicks that scored for DJ were of the precious little damage type. Honestly, I am not certain that I would score every single lower leg kick that DJ landed on HC than I would any one of the leg kicks that Jose Aldo hit Uriah Faber with!!!
No opponent worries about a leg tap that does half the damage of when you accidentally bang legs dancing with your girlfriend. It is a serious problem that needs to be addressed. FFS, Takedowns are an MMA skill. Score it. Footsy is a bedtime skill, Score it only if the opposing footsy player does the nasty with you.
It can be said from both parties. Honestly the takedowns in my own opinion were worth nothing since Cejudo didn't really do much while on top besides literally hold DJ to the mat. On the flip, DJ didn't do much to win striking exchanges either. On paper he heavily outlanded him from what I saw, it seemed that way watching the fight too.It was a close fight but Cejudo clearly won three rounds, albeit not as dominantly as Mouse won his two. The rubber match has to happen, agreed, but Mouse says he needs time off.
Cejudo is going to get better too and has only been doing MMA for 5 years, where as Mouse has been doing it for 15. Even if they run it back, the experience gap that Mouse had is going to get smaller and smaller.
'Athlete this and that is honestly to stupid to discuss'? Fa real? He is the only Olympic Gold medalist in the UFC and won gold as a teenage kid! You can mock that but it is some serious high level shit, and this past bout is evidence why everyone was saying he would dethrone Mouse. Everyone, myself included, forgot about him and wrote him off, but he proved himself in spades.