Fingers in the glove on the top photo in that quote , add the referee turning a blind eye to blatant cheating throughout the fight to the favouritism shown to o malley.
Complete bullshit, if Herzog does his job o malley doesn’t defend a few more takedowns and doesn’t get up from the ones Yan did land despite his constant cage grabbing, he takes twice the damage on the ground.
The only round you can give o malley if you are scoring the fight properly is the 3rd and in that round he saved himself from being pounded by holding the glove and escaped with his granby roll by grabbing the cage 5 times in one exchange.
Noticing the narrative starting to shift a bit here.
This usually happens because most of the viewing public who watched the fight concluded it was a terrible decision and moved on, leaving most of the people still trying to argue the point either shills or O’Malley ball garglers.
Right but context matters. If you look at the entire thing, he clearly says the fight was very close. That’s been my argument from the beginning. I scored it for Sean but it could’ve gone to Yan. Now everyone is saying Yan clearly won or he won 30-27, I can’t get with that.
Yan won the first two rounds, pretty hard to score the first for Sean, when you factor in Yans slam takedown, top control and aggression throughout the round you have to give him the nod. It was a close round on the feet but not over all.
All the times ive embrarressed your old newb ass, for the know nothing clown you are and you have the nerve to talk again. I school you, you go quiet, than you build back up your bravery again because you like the punishment
Im gonna go bump up those threads where I exposed you for knowing NOTHING about fighting
So Yan wins because of all the things he did that are secondary in the scoring criteria? Notice you didn’t mention damage, which is the most important thing. I don’t score “slam takedowns” unless something is done with them.
The striking was close, neither guy did much damage in the first , when damage isn’t clear you have to go to the next criteria, effective grappling, octagon control and aggression, O malley didn’t do much in the first bar strike and he didn’t get the better of Yan striking in the first.
A take down where a guy gets lifted and thrown, followed by several minutes of control and 6-7 ground and pound strikes is the definition of effective grappling, not sure why you don’t score that.
It’s a fairly easy round the score, the 3rd is more difficult but you have to give that to O malley because he did do damage and he clearly won the striking exchanges in that round. Yan couldn’t do much with his takedown in the 3rd.
It was a close fight, but seemed clear that Yan won. Even O’Malley didn’t really think he won, as it was evident by the post-fight interview. That’s surprising, given he’s claimed he’s undefeated even though he lost a fight via stoppage, and not surprising for the same reason, given he’s now claiming he won without a doubt.
What concerns me most is if everyone in the media and nearly all knowledgeable MMA fans think Yan won, why did the judges think otherwise? We all know the UFC is desperate for another star, post Conor, and O’Malley has been groomed since day 1. He also is key for the younger demographic, which the UFC also desperately wants to grow. Sprinkle in the fact it was in Abu Dhabi where they don’t really have a commission, and…
In boxing, at least in the old days, the judges are not allowed to watch a screen. They have to watch what’s happening in front of them live. They don’t get replays after the fact, either.
Sometimes I’ll watch a fight and see something and think it landed but they show another angle and it didn’t. Things like that can affect how a judge scores a fight.
Good point, do you think instant replay should be used in modern day judging. I think it should. Would help if the judges was former fighters or experienced martial artists too.
I forget if it was Bellator, Elite XC or Affliction at the time they had the referress like Big John start wearing Body cams or head cams and you could see everything from first person as the referee seen it. I thought that was a good idea.
