Ryan McGillvray heeds the advice of his corner to start the second, coming out more aggressively with his hands and keeping Shamar Bailey at distance. Bailey still looks tired—that’s the downside of all that muscle.
The upside is the dude is still powerful as hell, even with a diminishing reservoir.
Bailey scores a takedown and lands a few short elbows to the Kid’s face. After that, there’s not a whole lot to report other than Shamar riding out top position and Rogan continuing to extol the virtues of wrestling as an MMA base.
He’s right, but only because the scoring system rewards top control even if minimal-to-no damage is being done…as is the case here.
Bailey finally stands up, but he’s just looking for a window to bomb away as he’s not backing off McGillvray. The window opens and Shamar lunges right through it, landing with a heavy right hand. One more solid knee from Shamar to Ryan’s midsection before the final horn ends another 10-9 round for Bailey.