Nunes vs Shevchenko: Who did you have winning the fight?

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

Nunes 1, 3 and 5

 

[Almighty Angus]

lol, who gives a fuck?

 

[Coolidge]

I had Nunes winning, but I didn't pay too close attention to the fight.

 

[The MM Analyst]

Shevchenko, 49-46. It was close enough that you can justifiably say it "wasn't a robbery" and even justify a Nunes' win if you stretch it enough. Shevchenko should have rightfully won, scoring it for Nunes is kind of acceptable but makes less sense than scoring it for Shevchenko. The way the rules are structured, you do not win a round with one takedown and nothing on the ground while getting outstruck like Nunes did in round 5. Also thought Val landed the cleaner strikes throughout 2-5.

 

[Asurah]

Shevchenko took at least 3 rounds (I had it 49-46), it's a shame that MMA judges still don't understand what they are watching when it comes to striking.

 

[Haliacmon]

I saw Valentina winning but it was very close, cant say it was a robbery at all

 

[AllAmericanNightmare]

Nunes. Counter strikers get too much love on here

Huh? Amanda was trying to counter just as much as Val. Stop being blinded by "octagon control".

 

[Mondo Freaks]

Huh? Amanda was trying to counter just as much as Val. Stop being blinded by "octagon control".

Being the aggressor should be looked upon more highly than a counter puncher. Nunes was at least attacking

 

[VaultBoy]

A MASTER CLASS? AT WHAT CIRCLING THE CENTER OF THE OCTAGON ? LOL
Amanda landed more significant strikes throughout the 5 rounds according to the fight metric experts they use for every major fight. Do your own research if you rather believe Sherdawg

Fightmetrics doesn't count damage

 

[Iroh]

Bump

 

[mmacrosstrain]

Nunes. She constantly pushed the action with attacks while Val backed away trying to counter. Nunes was the only one that attempted and succeeded with a takedown. I forgot she slung Val down for a second in round one. The challenger is supposed to take the title from the champion and Val definitely didn't do enough IMO.

 

[LongDongSilver]

nunes pressed majority of fight.. SaltySkankHo didn't do enough to take that belt .. Go point fight somewhere else

 

[Eater of Souls]

Shevchenko, barely, but I can see it going the way it did. Had she not wound up in a bad position on the ground in the last round, she should have taken the decision.

 

[mihailovich]

Just because you hate Nunes doesn't mean Valentina won. She was moving backwards most of the fight in addition of getting outstruck and outwrestled.

 

[lalaland]

A MASTER CLASS? AT WHAT CIRCLING THE CENTER OF THE OCTAGON ? LOL
Amanda landed more significant strikes throughout the 5 rounds according to the fight metric experts they use for every major fight. Do your own research if you rather believe Sherdawg

Amanda landed next to nothing of significance. People who bring up fightmetric stats are morons with no clue how to judge a fight.

 

[Air Lats]

Lmao at all the Octagon control, taking center and "but she was aggression durr"

Also at Valentina not intitiating exchanges



How can people not know what a counter fighter is?



Watch it again

Or dont

Whatever

I liked the fight

It was a draw or a razor's edge decision that could've gone either way.

I liked what Valentina was showed a little better than what Nunez showed. I had picked Nunez, fwiw.

 

[xmovingparts]

I honestly thought live that the 5th was as close of a round as the 3rd, Val winning a good majority of the 5th to be taken down with like 1min or so left but still landed a couple good elbows from the bottom and wasn't taking any damage there or throughout the fight. I saw a UD for Val.

 

[FrontNakedChoke]

Nunes didn't do shit.

Terrible fight but Shevchenko won.

 

[JustBleed69]

Clear win for Schev.

Was competitive but clear as day who won the fight. Wasn't surprised with the decision though.

 

[aerius]

Watched it a couple more times today and it should be 49-46 Shevchenko, with her winning rounds 2-5, and even round 1 was pretty close. There were a number of kicks & punches in round 3 which I thought Nunes landed while watching the fight live yesterday that were actually blocked or avoided. The head kick that Rogan & DC were calling out was clearly blocked as were most of the punches, she actually missed every single head punch & kick in round 3.

The Fightmetric stats are way off, Nunes was credited with a lot of strikes which were blocked or avoided. I can understand why Valentina was so pissed, Nunes got credit for a bunch of missed or blocked strikes and on top of that the judges fucked it up.

Watching it live it looked pretty close, but watching it a couple more times and really paying attention to the exchanges and it's pretty clear Valentina won.