Sherdog Pick’Em Trends: UFC on FX 3
Ian
McCall did not battle to a draw with
Demetrious
Johnson at UFC on FX 2; he just ran out of time.
At least that seems to be the line of thinking among participants
in
Sherdog.com’s MMA
Pick’Em fantasy game, as 76 percent like “Uncle Creepy” to
defeat Johnson in the
UFC on FX 3 main event at the Bank Atlantic Center in Ft.
Lauderdale, Fla., on Friday.
McCall ended the first meeting between the two in style, pounding
“Mighty Mouse” with strikes and nearly finishing the fight in the
waning moments of the third round. A scoring error initially
awarded the decision to Johnson, and by the time it was corrected
to a majority draw, it was much too late to bring the flyweights
back to the cage for a decisive sudden-victory round.
A former
Tachi
Palace Fights 125-pound champion, McCall had won four
consecutive bouts before his scrap with Johnson, earning wins over
Jeff
Willingham,
Jussier da
Silva,
Dustin
Ortiz and
Darrell
Montague. His only losses have come at the hands of
UFC bantamweight champion
Dominick
Cruz and
WEC veteran
Charlie
Valencia.
Johnson experienced plenty of success as a bantamweight in both the
WEC and UFC before falling to Cruz at UFC Live 6 in October. The
AMC Pankration representative owns notable victories over
Nick
Pace,
Damacio
Page,
Norifumi
Yamamoto and
Miguel
Torres.
Other Pick’Em trends for UFC on FX 3:
• Players are intrigued by the potential of
Erick Silva,
who has been in the Octagon for just 69 seconds in his two fights:
a win against
Luis Ramos
and a controversial disqualification defeat to
Carlo
Prater. A solid 78 percent have chosen the Brazilian to defeat
wrestler
Charlie
Brenneman in their welterweight...
