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29-28 or 29-27 Matthews depending whether the first was a 10-8 or a 10-9, I have it 29-27. Great fight, leading the way for FOTN so far although Li should be stripped of his half of the bonus for that clear and deliberate eye gouge
I quite liked Li before this fight but will always cheer against him now since he's dirty. Great performance by Matthews, best version we've seen of him yet now that he's getting some power to go with his offensive grappling. He still makes too many defensive mistakes both on the feet and ground but he's a beast.
I like that two judges scored it 30-26 because Li used an eye gouge to escape a fight ending sub in r2, would have been unfair to allow him to use that to win and it was a close r2 anyway factoring in the close sub attempt
Matthews all class saying no hard feelings for the eye gouge. Li is a dirty cheating scumbag.