Goddard standing them up was bullshit but fuck it, it’s over. That 100% lost Eddie that fight and chippy shit happens in fights but you can’t make a game changing call regarding mount when you can’t tell what’s happening.
Oh and people saying Dustin was fine, dude had no arm energy to expend getting out of mount after trying two guillotines with two minutes left in the round. He was going to sit against the cage and prolly be finished in the next minute after Eddie grinded him out a little more. That position is normally fine but when you have no arm strength left, you’re pretty much just waiting for the bell.
Eddie was tired already too though if you rewatch. He was giving DP time for his arms to recover from being burned out from the guillotine attempts. Plus, his arms must not have been THAT burned out given that he fought off the neck cranks Eddie attempted when he sort of had DP's back. I really don't think Eddie was gonna finish, but obviously we can't say for sure.
Eddie was tired already too though if you rewatch. He was giving DP time for his arms to recover from being burned out from the guillotine attempts. Plus, his arms must not have been THAT burned out given that he fought off the neck cranks Eddie attempted when he sort of had DP's back. I really don't think Eddie was gonna finish, but obviously we can't say for sure.
I think the standup was 100% justified given the cage grab by Eddie (after a warning in rd 1). The issue with Goddard is that he then didn't punish Dustin for the low blow in the closing flurry when he was finishing Eddie. It was clearly low, and absolutley no question Eddie should have been given 5 minutes to recover. So Goddard did screw up, but it wasn't with the standup.
I agree Alvarez was tired as well but in mount gravity is doing so much work. If you have fatigued fighters and one is in a mount position, he is going to dominate the guy on bottom; if it was half or full guard, totally different.
We disagree on the Goddard thing and we are going in circles now.