Big Bad Blog Video Theater-Lucie Pudilova vs Sarah Moras

Here's the fight video of Lucie Pudilova vs Sarah Moras from last night's UFC show in Austin, TX. Sarah is from Kelowna, BC. She was on TUF 18 but she has been injured a lot which is why we haven't seen much of her. She's good on the ground but her striking is terrible. Lucie is from the Czech Republic. She is a striker and she's terrible on the ground. So I don't believe either is an elite fighter. This fight centers around a very poor call by ref Jacob Montalvo. In round one, Sarah takes Lucie down and pounds her. I don't think she was going to finish but she was keeping busy. And then Montalvo inexplicably stands them up. Not only was it a terrible call but it may have changed the course of the fight. And that's the last thing refs should be doing. So they stood up and Lucie knocked Sarah down. Sarah tried to get an armbar from the bottom but no dice. I scored the round 10-9 for Sarah. The problem was Sarah was never able to get control of the fight again. One of her big flaws as pointed out by Jimmy Smith before the fight is she doesn't follow through properly on takedown attempts. This is something she needs to fix but I guess it isn't that easy to fix or she would have done it already. In the other two rounds, Lucie turned this flaw into top position. And the ironic thing is she did a lot of stalling but Montalvo wouldn't stand them up. Maybe Herb Dean needs to talk to him. Lucie was stalling because she is clueless on the ground. Of course Sarah is equally clueless on her feet. She has no head movement and she only throws one punch at a time. That's easy pickings for a kickboxer like Lucie. I scored the fight 29-28 for Lucie and she won by unanimous decision. But what if the ref never makes that call. That's not something I want to question after the fight. Check it out for yourself.