As he continues to climb up the lightweight ladder, Jim Miller notched another big win Wednesday night with a hard-fought decision over Gleison Tibau fought at UFC Fight Night 22.The judges scored the fight 30-27, 30-27 and 29-28 for Miller, and although the fight was a little closer than those scores would suggest, it was still a very good showing for Miller, who is now 18-2, with his only two losses coming by decision to the two best lightweights in the world, Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard.
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Miller wins most of his fights by submission, but his striking looked good against Tibau, especially in the second round when he landed a huge left hand early that had Tibau badly hurt. In fact, if anything Miller's biggest problem in the fight was that he didn't trust his striking enough: He made a tactical error in going for a submission after he hurt Tibau, and then clinched with Tibau for more than a minute and gave his injured opponent time to recover.
So Miller showed that he could stand to develop more of a killer instinct, but he also showed that he's a complete fighter who's capable of controlling a bigger, stronger man who's every bit as good a grappler in Tibau. Miller is now on a five-fight winning streak since losing to Maynard a year and a half ago, and he's got big fights ahead of him.
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