Pedro Munhoz welcomes five-round rematch with John Dodson: ‘He’s a wuss’

A disgruntled Pedro Munhoz is still not quite over his split decision loss to John Dodson, especially because of the way it went.

Munhoz believes he did more than enough to earn the nod from the judges at UFC 222, a card that had four other fights end by split decision as well. As Munhoz told Ag Fight, he believes the judges were to blame and he narrows it down to a specific one: Adalaide Byrd.

“That fight was completely contested by me and 90% of the reporters,” Munhoz said. “Five fights were contested and all of them were scored by the same person (Byrd). She has been controversial in boxing before too. I looked her up on Twitter and everything she shares is about boxing. I don’t know how able these people are to analyze an MMA fight. I started analyzing her life and I learned she has zero participation in the MMA community. This is like an volleyball referee judging a soccer game.”

Since Pedro feels like he should’ve taken the win, he would not turn down a rematch against John Dodson, but it has to be under one condition: the fight would need to be a five-rounder. For Munhoz, that would be the only way to erase controversy.

“I wouldn’t turn down (a rematch) as I never turned down any fights,” Munhoz said. “In a five-round fight we could leave a visible score for the judges. We already know Dodson is a wuss and won’t engage me. We would be able to do do more damage. In the second round we saw him opening his mouth. He kept looking at the time. We would be able to minimize the risk of a decision win or some controversy in the scorecards. I think a five-round rematch is a good idea.”

Pedro Munhoz was on a four-fight winning streak before losing to John Dodson at UFC 222 in March. During that time he defeated the likes of Rob Font, Damian Stasiak, Justin Scogginsand Russell Doane, three of them via submission.