I had rounds 1 and 2 for Vanessa.
I think round 1 we can all agree Vanessa won.
Round 2: she did way more damage on bottom with elbows and hammerfists. You can't just sit inside the guard do nothing and expect to win the fight. Times have moved on. Number one scoring criteria is DAMAGE and Vanessa did way more damage in R2. Very nice sharp elbows to the head.
29-28 Vanessa. People crying about robbery go read the rules.
I thought murata won round one. Sure, vanessa landed more strikes, but like half of them were little rabbit punches from bottom or light shots in the clinch. Murata actually looked to land the harder strikes on the feet with kicks, and popped vanessa's head back with some punches, and had the two takedowns and almost 2 minutes of control time. I'm all for making it easier for people to win grappling exchanges from their back, but vanessa only had a handful of ground strikes and I don't think that outweighs two takedowns and almost 2 minutes of control time, especially when I think murata landed the harder strikes on the feet that round.
That said, Murata slipped on her ass at one point in that round and I thought judges might see that as an effect from one of vanessa's strikes (it wasn't) and give her the round.
Round 2, vanessa does have a case for winning that round from the bottom, but all the damage done to murata was mostly caused by a headbutt. They were close in strikes that round, with vanessa probably edging murata, but it was close enough in strikes where I thought the 4 plus minutes of top control by murata would swing it her way.
If you do score strictly by the criteria, then i can see your argument for Vanessa, the problem is that judges rarely do. I've never seen judges give the person on bottom the rounds as easily as they did to vanessa last night.
Also, round 3 was borderline 10-8 if we are strictly following the criteria now.
