O'malley Yan may have been a robbery...

[Scheme]

Besides the punch stats, O'Malley wasn't the one panic wrestling. When's the last time Yan resorted to wrestling anybody?

O'Malley shot a takedown at the end of round 1, was he panic wrestling because he knew he lost the round?

 

[MRT]

O’Malley’s 40 sig strikes in rd3 were mostly junk. People need to stop parroting that hilariously botched stat and rewatch the fight themselves. It was a close round striking-wise and Yan had 2 minutes of ground control. The ‘O’Malley outclassed Yan in rd 3’ narrative is a joke.

I agree that saying O'Malley 'outclassed' him in rd 3 is just silly...but it is important to establish whether the striking (and grappling) was CLOSE or whether it was EQUAL. That is a critical distinction...because unless they are judged to be equal (which is relatively rare), then things like aggression and ground control are *completely irrelevant*, per the scoring criteria.

 

[SkinnyClaw]

I don't think he was piecing him up at all, he was just touching him most of the time, these kinds of strikes are not significant.

It's like Conor touching Floyd, and some people losing their mind at Conor's strike count, comparing it to other boxers like "Wow, Conor landed more strikes than Sugar Shane Mosley" etc, when the kind of power being delivered is completely incomparable between the two.

When you're so short, fighting such a tall, long fighter, it's a given that you will get touched much more. Sean did land some good strikes, but most of them were not significant. Petr landed less strikes, but almost all of them were significant.

Saying stats don't lie makes no sense, because there's a reason we have judges, otherwise you would just count strikes and give the round to the higher number, but that obviously doesn't tell the story of the fight.