Media Sean Strickland believes he won the fight, says headbutt helped DDP | Dricus reacts

[Huligani]

You seem deeply emotionally affected by Strickland's loss.

 

[Killer Kadoogan]

DDP derps want to claim damage, with far less strikes landed, less sig strikes landed, then they point to this cut???? the accidental headbutt damage???

 

[SeattleFightFan]

Well. He has a (small) point.

Anyone here know the actual nuances of this rule? For example, does the corner need to alert the ref at the break, the ref watch the replay, let the fight go on, and if it becomes an issue they declare it a NC? Or does the fight have to be decided at the time of the foul. And does Ontario have instant replay?

BTW since rules are so regional, whatever rules are in Nevada probably aren't the same in Ontario. Frustrating.

 

[USA!USA!]

I really don't feel like Sean did much in this fight outside of jab. Dricus was at least throwing heat trying to hurt him and got takedowns. Pretty sure that is why you lost, bud.

 

[SeattleFightFan]

Mad respect to Strickland for continuing to fight through it and not saying anything. That cut is really bad.

To be clear, the cut didn't look that bad at the time of the foul.

The (seemingly small) cut certainly became bad.

I'm willing to be corrected and admit I'm wrong as fuck if someone posts the 20-100 seconds after this incident.

 

[Deleted member 587672]

This head butt really looks very intentional.

Mad respect to Strickland for continuing to fight through it and not saying anything. That cut is really bad.

Should Dana strip DDP of the belt? Or at least give Strickland an immediate rematch.

Stop crying you big pansy

 

[Fjord]

To be clear, the cut didn't look that bad at the time of the foul.

The (seemingly small) cut certainly became bad.

I'm willing to be corrected if someone posts the 20-100 seconds after this incident.

Did you see the fight? The cut bled all over his eye and he couldn’t see almost immediately. And then yes it got worse. That’s what happens with those eye cuts.

 

[Fjord]

Stop crying you big pansy

Do you come on here just to troll and say, “Look at me. Look at how dumb I can be.”

 

[PurpleDrank]

I just hope fans can understand fighters have every right to be pissed and salty about a loss. Especially a close fight like this. If it deeply offends you, you're likely projecting.

 

[usernamee]

In boxing they would be much more understanding of how big of a deal a head clash causing that cut would be

 

[Ace70 V2]

Hot take: I think title fights should go to a 6th round if the decision is split and not unanimous.... honestly, fuck it, get rid of split decisions altogether

I can agree with that.

 

[Dandy Chiggins]

What a crying little sorry ass bitch. fuck this guy.

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

This is just a usual Strickland fight, have solid fundamentals but never really push the action while his opponent lands less but bigger shots.
Off the top of my head this fight, Cannonier, Hermansson were all split decisions and it's entirely due to how he fights.
48-47 either guy is a fine score, round 2 is the swing for me. Sean only has himself to blame for not doing enough.

it's because he's only comfortable throwing jabs. you can see it when he throws his right hand, it's awkward looking and doesn't come with the same efficiency as his jab does. he also can't counter punch. if he had a serviceable right hand and decent timing for coutnering he'd probably have stopped Adesanya and he'd definitely have made DDP pay for kicking to the body from too close.

 

[SeattleFightFan]

Did you see the fight? The cut bled all over his eye and he couldn’t see almost immediately. And then yes it got worse. That’s what happens with those eye cuts.

Ah, just watched it again. This was the same engagement that, during the PPV, the replay made it seem like it was the elbow on disengage that caused the cut.

I thought this was a different part of the fight. Like maybe 20 seconds before the elbow.

Yes, it started bleeding immediately. But now I’m not convinced whether it was the headbutt or the elbow that cut him - they were so close to each other.

I bet by end of day there will be a pic between the headbutt and the elbow that will settle this. I’ll shut up until then.

 

[Skarsgard]

I mean, he's not wrong, but it doesn't feel like he was right. Yes, he got a fight altering cut from a headbutt. No, that wasn't his biggest issue in the fight.

 

[BoxerMaurits]

DDP reacts:

 

[sdpdude9]

This is just a usual Strickland fight, have solid fundamentals but never really push the action while his opponent lands less but bigger shots.
Off the top of my head this fight, Cannonier, Hermansson were all split decisions and it's entirely due to how he fights.
48-47 either guy is a fine score, round 2 is the swing for me. Sean only has himself to blame for not doing enough.

This. Judging in mma is heavily about optics. A nice jab is fantastic and he lands it almost at will. But when your opponent is slinging heavy hooks and kicks back, even if they’re only partially landing, they have the appearance of being more effective. Then add in some timely takedowns and tending to be the one pushing forward, the optics look better for his opponent. All that said still a coin flip fight.

 

[cade187]

He isn't wrong. It was visible that he had problems seeing, he kept wiping the blood from his eye after that for the rest of the round.

This. And it's really clear in the reply that his eye was fine, he eats an unintentional headbutt, then immediately his eye starts pouring blood.

 

[Deleted member 587672]

Do you come on here just to troll and say, “Look at me. Look at how dumb I can be.”

I was replying to this:

"Should Dana strip DDP of the belt?"

My statement stands the test of time you pansy. Now, I have other pansies to call out.

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

To be clear, the cut didn't look that bad at the time of the foul.

The (seemingly small) cut certainly became bad.

I'm willing to be corrected and admit I'm wrong as fuck if someone posts the 20-100 seconds after this incident.

the problem here with everyone claiming the headbutt destroyed any advantage Strickland had was the headbutt happened in the FOURTH ROUND. if Strickland was really kicking DDP's ass, why did the headbutt matter? according to Strickland's disgruntled fans DDP did nothing but shadowbox the entire fight. so how did 1 illegal headbutt give DDP the win if Strickland was winning the entire fight?

that's the corner they've painted themselves in. now, they have to either admit that DDP was making the fight close making the headbutt matter and thus killing all their "Strickland was robbed" arguments OR they have to admit that the headbutt meant nothing because Strickland was handily winning so all of their bitching about it now is a moot point. the only other argument is that there is some huge conspiracy to fuck Strickland over, even though the President of the evil organization has said he thought Strickland won.

tl/dr guys who vicariously live their lives through sports stars get angry when said sports star doesn't win everything.