Rank the UFC's biggest robbery decisions!!

TCE said:
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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Busgosu said:
It's a fact that the judges fucked up (or did what they were told to, since the pink goof seemed to be perfectly happy with the result during the post fight press conference) in the Yan vs O'Malley fight, but I'm curious to know where would you rank this shit show amongs the biggest robberies in UFC history?
Below my personal ranking:
  1. O'Malley beats Yan @ UFC 280
  2. Rutten beats Randleman @ UFC 20
  3. Machida beats Shogun @ UFC 104
  4. Bisping beats Hammill @ UFC 75
  5. Leonard Garcia beats Nam Phan @ TUF 12 finale
  6. Couture beats Vera @ UFC 105
  7. GSP beats Hendricks @ UFC 167
  8. Diego Sanchez beats Martin Kampman @ UFC on Versus 3
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Machida won.shogun waa toe touching. Was close. Shogun won the rematch. Machida foolishly traded after criticism.
 
TCE said:
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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I truly believe this was a tally error no cared enough to correct. It's the only reasonable explanation.
 
It's been years since I watched the fight but always thought Kampmann was robbed vs Shields
 
Yan probably should have won but the fight was a lot more competitive than Kampmann vs Sanchez and Shogun vs Machida, those were terrible robberies.
 
ILove4MinutesHyuna said:
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.
The absolute best any sane human can do is give Whitaker a draw.
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Just curious, Which of these two arguments is stronger in your opinion seeing as you just rewatched

"There was no 10-8 rounds in this fight"
or
"romero won round 4"
 
RockyLockridge said:
Just curious, Which of these two arguments is stronger in your opinion seeing as you just rewatched

"There was no 10-8 rounds in this fight"
or
"romero won round 4"
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I think the argument there was no 10-8 rounds is very weak. You watch Round 1 and then watch Round 5 and they are just so far apart in terms of one sidedness, if anything Round 5 looks like a 10-7 in comparison.

Romero won Round 4 is a fair argument. He finished the round very strong, the two most damaging punches were landed by him, one wobbled Whittaker but the first 4 minutes Whittaker won. So I guess its personal preference do you prefer damage dealt or activity in that round.
 
Quick list of just the last decade alone of probably worse decisions:

Sanchez def. Gomi
Dos Anjos vs. Dunham
Pepey def. Vieira
Davis def. Machida
Boetsch def. Dollaway
Sanchez def. Pearson
Strickland def. Barnatt
Kunimoto def. Walsh
Zhang def. Sai
Ellenberger def. Moontasri
Holbrook def. Nijem
Prazeres def. Lazaro
Dariush def. Johnson
Pendred def. Spencer
Nover def. Nam
Bochniak def. Barzola
Morono def. Noke
Miller def. Lauzon
Volkov def. Johnson
Evans-Smith def. Reneau
Taylor def. Ham
Lawler def. Condit
Lauzon def. Held
Khabilov def. Johnson
Moraes def. Means
Nurmagomedov def. Scoggins
Ottow def. Grant
Sakai def. Arlovski
Lopez def. Morales
Hernandez def. Trinaldo
Alves def. Griffin
Kenney def. Borg
Murphy def. Lee
Ewell def. Martinez
Ige def. Barboza
Salikhov def. Zaleski dos Santos
Barber def. Maverick
Romanov def. Espino
Nicolau def. Kape
Cachoeira def. Kim
Arlovksi def. Collier
Buday def. Brzeski
 
OldBoy91 said:
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 you're generally right about robberies/ split decisions, but not in this instance.
Tolerating other opinions is important for the sake of objectiveness, so claiming one's own has to be right is never a great idea.
So let's just assume that opinions vary since the fight was competitive. Funnily enough, they don't.
Out of 26 media representative not a single one had O'Malley winning the fight. 7 had Yan winning all three rounds.
Just by chance there would've been at least a couple scores for O'Malley. But there weren't.
Let's just say a fight is exactly even, but draws aren't a thing. The most likely distribution of scorecards would be 50/50. Now if you take only 3 scorecards a 3/0 distribution is not that unlikely. Take 26 scorecards and your chances for a 26/0 distribution will be 1 over 2^26. That's essentially zero.
The fight was close, but still not close enough for anyone to score for O'Malley winning. Which would've happened just by chance if the fight was actually close enough.
If the disagreement with the judges is only 50/50 then nvm. Even 70/30 might not be a clear robbery. But when the 80/20 mark is passed, the chances for that happening are just too low to be random. 100/0 distribution as I said, is just not happening by chance.
 
Yan vs O’Malley isn’t even in the top 200 for me. Condit vs Lawler is easily the biggest robbery I’ve ever seen.
 
Shogun/Hendo 1 not being a draw was rather egregious.
Round 5 was as 10-8 as it gets.
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Machida tasted of his own medicine a bit later on when he lost on another robbery vs Rampage @UFC 123.
Quinton aknowledged this and agreed to schedule a rematch on the same night, but in typical Rampage fashion he later retracted
 
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