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Nobody clearly won that fight under the scoring rules. This fight illustrates why the 10-9 must system sucks for MMA.
Because the first 3 rounds were so incredibly close you could very easily argue either guy won any number of those rounds by the skin of their teeth.
However the final two rounds were Shogun's beyond a shadow of a doubt. It's literally impossible to argue Machida won either of those rounds. He was toast and getting battered without being able to return any meaningful offense.
While you could make an argument for either of them winning that fight, it really showed the flaws in the 10-9 must system.
Shogun clearly pulled away in the final two rounds after 3 rounds of incredibly close fighting.
Machida was on the wrong side of a surprisingly uncontroversial decision that highlighted the inherent flaws of the 10 point must system. He and Rampage fought two close, relatively uneventful rounds with Rampage the slightly more active, but then Machida had a big flurry in the third. Based on the scoring criteria, it’s an easily justifiable decision for rampage even though machida doled out significantly more damage.