Welterweight bout: Marcus Davis defeated Chris Lytle via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28).
Marcus Davis and Chris Lytle were each awarded $40,000 bonuses for Fight of the Night.
Welterweight bout: Marcus Davis defeated Chris Lytle via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28).
Marcus Davis and Chris Lytle were each awarded $40,000 bonuses for Fight of the Night.
Based on previous fights I expected Davis to have superior standup and that’s what we saw. Certainly Ltyle was tough, and he did better than I thought he would. I think Davis would have had to do better in this fight to show that he could be a contender in the division.
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is the difference in the “keep it standing” pledge between these two and EliteXC allegedly paying petruzelli a bonus to stay on his feet that the UFC wasn’t involved with Davis/Lytle’s “pledge” (as far as we know)