I have to admit that I am largely biased as Magny is probably my favorite fighter at WW. He is a military veteran, an incredibly humble man, and fought Carlos Condit right after his brother past away and didn't say a word about it until after the fight when he broke out in tears.
With that said, although I did feel that Ponz would win the fight, I did not feel that Magny employed an effective strategy. He should have known that if he was going to win the fight, his best odds would be to utilize his wrestling and top game which have won him the majority of his many wins in the WW division. Had he fought as he did against Condit and Gastelum, I feel he would have had a better chance at winning the fight. However, despite his top notch stamina, his durability has to be brought up into question yet again. He fought with a ton of heart going over 3 rounds after being beaten rather soundly to the legs and the eye, but it was early on in the fight that he started fighting very compromised. I do not want to underestimate the potential damage done to his eye from the jab early on, but it reminded me somewhat of his fight against Lorenz Larkin.
I tip my hate to Ponz, however, for a phenominal performance. He looked great from top to bottom. I really wanted to see his ground game exercised as we have not seen him use his grappling for a long time now, but he put on a flawless fight in my opinion and realy elevated his (already high) stock. There's some good match ups ahead for him. I still believe he isn't quite ready for a title shot due to his recent inactivity and dearth of wins against top 10 opposition, but he is right there at the top. I'd like to see him fight either Leon Edwards or Stephen Thompson next personally.