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Rank the UFC's biggest robbery decisions!!
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Nah. Yan vs O'Malley wasn't a robbery. I scored it for Yan but it was a pickem.
Round 1 is a toss up, I scored it for Yan but I can see the argument for O'Malley taking it.
Round 2 is a dominant round for Yan.
Round 3 O'Malley outstruck Yan 40-15 in significant strikes and busted his face open. Yan landed a couple of good counters but most of his offense consisted of shooting for takedowns he did absolutely nothing with.
This is what I mean, a lot of your examples are not robberies. They are close fights that generate a lot of outrage because the guy most people wanted to win didn't get the decision.
I do think Yan won but it was not the blatant blowout robbery that people are crying about.
People don't like O'Malley which is why this fight is getting the reaction it is. It's similar to Hammill/Bisping which you also listed and also was not a robbery. That too had a fighter that nobody liked getting the nod in a close fight.
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I think shogun vs machida was the worst I’ve seen to this day especially since it was for a belt
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Agreed.
Hill has lost a few fights now when she was the clear winner. Her last fight, I thought the judges was going to rob her again, thankfully they was paying attention that fight.
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My beef isn't even with folks arguing Yan should have won.
My beef is that the standard of MMA judging is so piss poor, that to rank this as "one of the worst robberies of all time" is disrespectful to the state of garbage judging we have currently.
Even if you argue title implications, there has to be a million better examples than arguing control in a 22-20 sigstrikes round (edit - thats what video replay had, stats i think are diff, but whatever)
I have a general rule that if you have to analyze a single round strike by strike, its probably not even close to being the biggest robbery that night.
My beef is that the standard of MMA judging is so piss poor, that to rank this as "one of the worst robberies of all time" is disrespectful to the state of garbage judging we have currently.
Even if you argue title implications, there has to be a million better examples than arguing control in a 22-20 sigstrikes round (edit - thats what video replay had, stats i think are diff, but whatever)
I have a general rule that if you have to analyze a single round strike by strike, its probably not even close to being the biggest robbery that night.
The round where Romero hurt Whittaker 3rd was it? I had it 10-9. Why?Because Whittaker clearly won 1st half of the round with Romero doing completly nothing. 10-8 is like a whole round won decisevly
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That is not true and you need to get over it.
In fact, unbiased analysis has shown that GSP won 3 of the 5 rounds. The problem is that Hendricks' round wins were much more emphatic. Hendricks did more damage. This brings up the age old debate of 10-9 vs 10-8 vs 10-7, and why we continue to award both dominant rounds and 50/50 rounds the same score of 10-9. If we scored rounds properly, I would agree that Hendricks deserved to win that fight based on the 2 rounds he won cleanly. But that is not how UFC scoring is done, and is therefore not up for debate.
And the debate of how you weigh strong vs weak rounds has NOTHING to do with this discussion. This discussion is simply about improperly scored rounds, with virtually everybody giving 2 or 3 rounds to Yan, an issue which transcends round vs round scoring and goes to the very heart of bad judging.
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Yeah, since I've been watching this sport. This fight is still my number 1 for robberies.
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That was a close competitive fight. I had GSP winning myself and I'm not even a fan.
Lol @ the worst one ever when it wasn't even a robbery.
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Sanchez Vs Pearson is the absolute gold standard.
The worst robbery ever (in the UFC) is Michihiro Omigawa vs Darren Elkins and I've never seen anybody else besides me bring it up. It's not even particularly close. No other robberies even come near to being as bad.
It was as clear a 30-27 victory for Omigawa as you are likely to see.
The entire 15 minutes was Omigawa walking Elkins down, landing power hooks at will and turning Elkins' face into hamburger meat, using his judo to effortlessly shrug off Elkins' takedown attempts, and using slick head movement to avoid almost all of Elkins' return fire.
All 3 judges scored the fight 30-27 for Darren Elkins. Not a single judge gave Omigawa even 1 round even though he blatantly won all of them easily.
That is what I call a robbery, not fights that end in a split decision where it all hinges on how one of the rounds is scored.
It was as clear a 30-27 victory for Omigawa as you are likely to see.
The entire 15 minutes was Omigawa walking Elkins down, landing power hooks at will and turning Elkins' face into hamburger meat, using his judo to effortlessly shrug off Elkins' takedown attempts, and using slick head movement to avoid almost all of Elkins' return fire.
All 3 judges scored the fight 30-27 for Darren Elkins. Not a single judge gave Omigawa even 1 round even though he blatantly won all of them easily.
That is what I call a robbery, not fights that end in a split decision where it all hinges on how one of the rounds is scored.
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Yeah he gave away round 1 and 2.
No I actually just rewatched the fight before commenting cause I wanted to have the info in case I needed it.
Round 1 and 2 Romero gives away while Whitaker dosent do any damage
Round 3 Romero knocks him down within the first 30 seconds, wrestle fucks him for the next 3 mintues. THey trade for the last minute with Whitaker stumbling backwards all over the place.
Round 4 Whitaker is kicking and jabbing for 4 minutes, Romero just resting last minute Romero hurts him twice has him doing the stanky leg. This is the round 2 of 3 judges gave to Whittaker that decided the fight cause they valued the 4 minutes of activity by Whittaker over the damage Romero did in the last minute.
Round 5 Romero knocks him down 1.5 minute into round very close to being stopped, wrestle fucks him on ground for the next 2 minutes. Whittaker then lands a huge kick to the neck that would knock down 99% of humans but Romero just eats it and walks forward. Last minute they trade again with Romero rocking him twice more. This was an easier 10-8 than Round 3 cause Romero almost finished it.
Round 4 is the controversial round if you are scoring 10-9 only. Cause Whitaker won it by point fighting but Romero had 2 huge punches that wobbled Whittaker in the last minute.
Round 3 would be 10-8 in todays MMA. Round 5 should have been 10-8 in any era of MMA.
The absolute best any sane human can do is give Whitaker a draw.
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Riki Fukuda vs. Nick Ring.
Fukuda controlled Ring on the ground for 3 rounds. Ring didn't land anything. Yet 2 judges that night gave Ring the first two rounds, giving him the UD.
Every media site scored it for Riki, it was so outrageous, Dana gave Riki his win bonus, despite being robbed.
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What UFC was that one on?Fedor vs Ricardo arona
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You have a source for all media scores?
I personally had it for O'Malley. The fight was very close. No robbery.
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