Hate him or love ‘em (ok, probably hate), but Matt “Meathead” Mitrione has some heavy, heavy hands. UFC head honcho Dana White saw that, and also saw a feud storyline, so he set up Mitrione to fight fellow TUF 10 heavyweight Marcus “Big Baby” Jones. Big Baby looked good early, but he looked stiff and slow on his feet. His stand-up style resembles a mummy. Round one belonged to Jones, as he tackled Mitrione to the ground repeatedly. But Jones’ dominance would be short lived.
In round two, Jones’ piss-poor stand-up and glass jaw caught up with him. Jones came out for round two li
ke a drunken Frankenstein, and Mitrione backpedled and landed a huge shot. That’s when Jones crashed down like a piano dropped off of the roof of the Palms’ resort. Mitrione finished him off with a few shots once he was down. Game over.
You know, I honestly thought Mitrione would be scared of Jones. After all, his TUF 10 loss at the hands of James McSweeney was pretty pathetic and Jones is a straight monster. Mitrione didn’t look like he wanted to be in the ring against McSweeney after vocally pondering whether he even wanted to take the fight. But in this match, Mitrione was game and looked more like the power puncher who rocked vet Scott Junk. White saw something in Mitrione, and maybe the rest of us should start noticing, too.
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