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

Check out O'Malley's interview with Brett Okamoto. Dude is still concussed from the shots Yan hit him with.
 
"Pieced up" is a little hyperbole. They went toe to toe on the feet. O'Malley had the better volume, Yan landed some crispy clean hooks that almost snapped Sean's neck. Yan should've won by being the better MMA fighter, but I give O'Malley all the respect in the world for that performance.
 
People hate on Sean because of theatrics, but the fact is Sean is a very hard-working and intelligent fighter. He could have won all 3 rounds by playing the points game, but he tried to knock Yan out and that got him in some trouble. His toughness can no longer be questioned.
 
Besides the punch stats, O'Malley wasn't the one panic wrestling. When's the last time Yan resorted to wrestling anybody?
 
O'Malley haters are everywhere, the fans, the media and that fat fuck in the announcer booth - Coming up with their narrative on how it was a robbery. It would have been this no matter what happened if it were a decision.

O'malley breaks his own leg against Chito and falls over, and the haters call it a domination.

Munhoz fakes an eye poke, and haters are all like O'Malley should have been DQ'd, and still hasn't been tested.

Thankfully, judges aren't haters and stupid statements about robberies aren't going to change the facts that the judges saw - O'Malley was lighting Yan up on the feet, and Yan's takedowns didn't do shit. The correct fighter won.
 
They punched each other in the head and Yan got the TD and a bit of control on the ground,

Guess that means that O'Malley wins by UFC rules.
 
Think whatever you want, everyone here and even on reddit thinks Yan beat Stevia.
 
Langinbang187 said:
Stats always lie in MMA.

Sean landing a single jab, and Yan landing that huge counter that nearly knocked O'Malley unconscious in round 2 are technically both considered one significant strike each on paper.
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Yea, I think most people agree Yan won the 2nd round. The problem for Yan is that he lost rounds 1 and 3.
 
ZaphMMA said:
O'Malley haters are everywhere, the fans, the media and that fat fuck in the announcer booth - Coming up with their narrative on how it was a robbery. It would have been this no matter what happened if it were a decision.

O'malley breaks his own leg against Chito and falls over, and the haters call it a domination.

Munhoz fakes an eye poke, and haters are all like O'Malley should have been DQ'd, and still hasn't been tested.

Thankfully, judges aren't haters and stupid statements about robberies aren't going to change the facts that the judges saw - O'Malley was lighting Yan up on the feet, and Yan's takedowns didn't do shit. The correct fighter won.
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i was very impressed with the judges tonight, actually using the scoring criteria correctly.
 
Langinbang187 said:
In the overwhelming majority opinion of individuals who watched that fight, he did not.
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That's cool, but he did. There was definitely a lot of confirmation bias at play here with people hating Sean and thinking there was no way he could beat Yan. What's even more surprising is that Sean won the 3rd round on all 3 judges scorecards which nobody thought was possible. The fight went in a way that most people didn't expect, so it was hard for them to process what was happening. Maybe once people cool down and give the fight a rewatch they can give an honest opinion of how the fight went.
 
chs140 said:
No. They aren't. Jabs are the only strike that aren't considered significant.
Sean pieced him up.
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I wstch d the fight and outside of 2 strikes he didn't land anything else of significance, them 2 strikes where very significant but Yan pulled them back instantly with his own strikes
 
Bradillac said:
That's cool, but he did. There was definitely a lot of confirmation bias at play here with people hating Sean and thinking there was no way he could beat Yan. What's even more surprising is that Sean won the 3rd round on all 3 judges scorecards which nobody thought was possible. The fight went in a way that most people didn't expect, so it was hard for them to process what was happening. Maybe once people cool down and give the fight a rewatch they can give an honest opinion of how the fight went.
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There's a lot of bias on both sides, Yan also is far from a popular fighter on these forums, I reckon there's a significantly more amount of O'Malley fans as opposed to Yan fans around here.

The reality is the betting market had Yan far ahead, everyone laying money live had Yan clearly ahead, the media scores are an absurd 26-0 in favor in Yan, something in my 20 years of watching MMA I have absolutely never seen before for the losing side.

I don't believe that is all because people don't like Sean, I think it's because the vast majority of people believe that Yan simply won the fight they watched, and I'm certainly in agreement with them.
 
Bob Sagat said:
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here's a stat for you
can you guess what fighter was on the left?
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If this was before the new rules, Yan for sure, but if you don't do anything with the takedown, ufc doesn't care anymore. New rules. I like the old rules more myself, but this is why.
 
chs140 said:
Six strikes landed in six minutes of control time. No submission attempts, no real passing. He did nothing with the time. He did get outstuck by damn near thirty despite the control time though.
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Perfectly said. The 5+ in "control" time wasn't so controlling if he wasn't able to eat in to the sig strike disparity or threaten subs either. 1 and 3 to Sean.
 
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