Matt Hamill vs. Mark Munoz
In a compelling Light Heavyweight matchup, powerhouse wrestler Matt “The Hammer” Hamill will be pitted against WEC veteran Mark “The Phillipine Wrecking Machine” Munoz.
Munoz is undefeated so far in his five fight career, but Hamill is less a step up in competition for him than he is a massive, canyon-spanning leap, so Munoz is going to have to give the performance of a lifetime to stay alive in this one.
Munoz, primarily a striker at this early stage of his career, earned his first shot at UFC glory as a result of WEC’s closure of their heavier weight classes. Whether he is ready for the step up in competition is unclear, but either way he is being thrown to the sharks right out of the gate against a wrestler as powerful as Hamill.
The one glimmer of hope for Munoz is that Hamill’s standup is still very much a work in progress, and so if Munoz can get out of the gate quickly and aggressively, he may be able to overwhelm Hamill with punches.
More likely, though, is that Hamill will secure an early takedown and control the duration of the bout with his deadly effective top control. Once this fight hits the ground, Munoz’s hopes are pretty much dead.
I see Hamill roaring out of the gates, taking Munoz down, punishing him for a while, and finally pounding him out in the second round.
