I swear, I still don't know a lot of you are saying that Anderson legitimately win that fight and that Brunson was cheated. I mean was it close? Certainly. Was it a robbery? Hell fucking no. The word "robbery" should be used sparingly or else it loses its meaning. It should be used in extreme cases such as Diego Sanchez vs Martin Kampman or Sanchez versus Ross Pearson. Fights where one guy is the victor and everyone knows it's wrong. In this case, people are throwing around the word robbery and being hyperbolic.
First of all, Anderson Silva is 41 fucking years old, the fact that a prime Brunson couldn't put him away or drop him at any point in the fight is an indictment to his own personal failings and not the judges. Second, DB was panic wrestling the entire match. He was getting teed off on with jabs that looked like they were shot from a whaling harpoon and then he would go all Brock Lesnar and panic wrestle. Worse still, he only hit like 2 out of the 11 of TD's and did absolutely no damage at all on the mat. Moreover, the new rules are you have to do something when you have your opponent on the ground or that lay and pray shit doesn't count anymore.
At any rate, rounds one and two were fairly close yet Andy was doing the stalking and Brunson was backing up then panic wrestling. Anderson defended almost all the takedowns and the only damage that he was taking were brief uppercuts in the clinch. None of which caused his 41-year-old knees to buckle. I don't see how anyone can blame the judges for that. Simply put, DB wasn't engaging and a 41-year-old Anderson Silva was chasing him around the cage and shrugging off nearly every single take down that was attempted.
As for Holly and GDR, that's even more of a stretch to say that Holly won that fight. Should a point have been deducted? Yes, that would've been reasonable, but that doesn't mean that Holly won the fight. Again, aside from that head kick, she landed jack shit and was getting lit up on the feet. That was another case of Kampman vs Sanchez except this time the judges got it right. Holly was grunting her way through air punches in her best Leonard Garcia impersonation and the judges just didn't buy that shit.
/Rant
