Peña outstruck Raquel by 47% in round 1- She won that fight!!!!

[Dreyga_King of Sherbums]

In the recent women’s bantamweight fight between Juliana Peña and Raquel Pennington, Peña walked away with a split decision victory, but there’s been a lot of debate surrounding the first round. I’m challenging all you Sherbums over at Sherdog to take another look at that round and re-evaluate who actually won it.

Peña clearly outstruck Pennington 25 to 17 in that first round, and when you do the math, that’s a 47% difference in Peña’s favor. Despite what some might say, the stats back her up in that round. So why are so many people convinced that Pennington won?

I think it’s the visual bias against Peña’s sloppy striking mechanics. Yeah, we all know Peña doesn’t have the cleanest form—her punches can look awkward—but that doesn’t mean they weren’t landing. She was catching Pennington on the chin multiple times, especially when Raquel would lunge forward. Peña was intercepting her strikes cleanly, but because of the unorthodox way she throws punches, it seems like a lot of fans are just brushing that off.

So, I’m calling on everyone here to rewatch that first round without letting Peña’s weird punching style cloud your judgment. Look at the stats, and look at who was actually landing more. Let’s discuss who really won that round based on facts, not aesthetics.

 

[Mammothman]

Who cares? Nobody give a damn about those 2 nobodies.

That belt became worthless once Amanda retired.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Pena Diaz 1 , 2 , 5

 

[svmr_db]

Sherbros would give Colby Covington the round against Ngannou if he landed 50 pillow hand punches vs Ngannou landing only 2 shots that nearly KO'd him lol.

 

[Bork Neslar]

This is a typical shertard autistic post. You need to pay attention to the actual fights and not just the numbers by themselves.

 

[marvinparsons]

I honestly don't care. If they are the best you have at that division then a title fight should be on the Prelims. I'm not paying for that shit. I was going to order the PPV for the main, but the thought of sitting through 30 mins of that crap at midnight made me worried I'd literally fall asleep and miss the fight I wanted to see. Connor and Jones combined couldn't do enough cocaine to stay awake through that fight.

 

[Blastbeat]

only decently exciting thing that happened was when Pennington knocked Pena down
WBW is the most boring division in the UFC without Just Bleed Queen Nunes on the throne.

 

[RockyLockridge]

I honestly don't care. If they are the best you have at that division then a title fight should be on the Prelims. I'm not paying for that shit. I was going to order the PPV for the main, but the thought of sitting through 30 mins of that crap at midnight made me worried I'd literally fall asleep and miss the fight I wanted to see. Connor and Jones combined couldn't do enough cocaine to stay awake through that fight.

You're way overstating that fight was boring it was not that boring of a fight lots happened both fighters tested, knock downs, take downs, striking, stuff happened wasn't a boring title fight by any means would rate it a 6/10 on the entertainment scale

 

[misterfurious]

My interest in that fight and who won is so low it would avoid any known means of detection.

 

[Wormwood]

Why are we Sherbums in all your threads?

 

[The-AxeMurderer]

I disagree, i scored it for Pennington.

Sometimes the numbers dont match the fights.

Its actually insane tha alsmostt every media member scored it for Pennington too.

1 had it a draw.

 

[The XL]

I think Pennington won, but Pena has the grappling and toughness to give Kayla some issues whereas Kayla would steamroll Pennington, so I'm fine with it

 

[13Seconds]

Sherbros would give Colby Covington the round against Ngannou if he landed 50 pillow hand punches vs Ngannou landing only 2 shots that nearly KO'd him lol.

 

[DoctorStoppage]

Why are we Sherbums in all your threads?

It’s wild that sherdog mods ban great posters like Corrado Soprano but let losers like OP keep shitting up the forum.

 

[Amianto]

I hope they will do "The dorkiest poster of Sherdog" so that I would finally vote for Dreyga

 

[Yep]

I bet they were significant as well.

 

[TheMadHatter]

I smell a troll. nobody give a fuck about this fight

 

[Cooliox]

Both girls from Miesha Tate's team on TUF

Meanwhile no one from Ronda's team made it in the UFC

Wild Fact

 

[MidgardSerpent]

This is a typical shertard autistic post. You need to pay attention to the actual fights and not just the numbers by themselves.

A bookie misgraded a prop bet of me as a loss, it was for Magomedov (vs Caio) to finish or win on the scorecards for round 1. Official result was two judges scored it 10-9 in favor of Magomedov. So I contacted customer service, there is some back and forth, and this guy is pretty snarky and he ends up quoting the Significant Strikes count as a 'proof' they were correct in grading it as a loss. Even though I already sent them a link to the official UFC site what the actual outcome was. They eventually ended up adjusting the results as a win for me, but some guys are just mouthbreathers.

 

[TheMMAnalyst]

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In the recent women’s bantamweight fight between Juliana Peña and Raquel Pennington, Peña walked away with a split decision victory, but there’s been a lot of debate surrounding the first round. I’m challenging all you Sherbums over at Sherdog to take another look at that round and re-evaluate who actually won it.

Peña clearly outstruck Pennington 25 to 17 in that first round, and when you do the math, that’s a 47% difference in Peña’s favor. Despite what some might say, the stats back her up in that round. So why are so many people convinced that Pennington won?

I think it’s the visual bias against Peña’s sloppy striking mechanics. Yeah, we all know Peña doesn’t have the cleanest form—her punches can look awkward—but that doesn’t mean they weren’t landing. She was catching Pennington on the chin multiple times, especially when Raquel would lunge forward. Peña was intercepting her strikes cleanly, but because of the unorthodox way she throws punches, it seems like a lot of fans are just brushing that off.

So, I’m calling on everyone here to rewatch that first round without letting Peña’s weird punching style cloud your judgment. Look at the stats, and look at who was actually landing more. Let’s discuss who really won that round based on facts, not aesthetics.

I'm not going to punish myself by re-watcing that first round, I only do that with cool fights where it's worth the rewatch (i.e. Yan vs. O'Malley).

The UFC stats are notoriously bad, they will sometimes rate pawing jabs that barely land as a significant strikes or even ones that are partially parried and don't even land at all. And not all strikes are the same, a really damaging punch might be worth 5-10 glancing ones. So to trust stats I need to watch and rate myself, but I ain't doing all that for this fight lol!

In truth when I was watching I thought the first round was close to dead even in volume/quality of strikes and leaned Pena ever so slightly. Pre-decision being read I was literally calling for a split for a Pena laughing out loud as all 3 commentators were saying with absolute confidence that Pennington had won when the first round was objectively a shitty coin-flip.