Whats the biggest "robbery" of 2020 in your opinion?

Straatblaffer said:
I absolutely do not understand why people call the Holloway fight a robbery. I keep on saying UFC fights are scored per round, not as a fight as a whole. Max won 1 and 2, but none of the other rounds is a clear Max round. I know Max is a great guy and commentary was super biased, but this was not a robbery.
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I get that logic, but in the rounds Holloway won he knocked down Volk twice. That has to count for more thank barely winning a round, or landing a couples of takedowns imo. I think we need to see more 10-8 rounds in MMA. Good fight though
 
Ige vs Barboza was the most blatant one. There's just no way Ige won that fight.

Reyes vs Jones is debatable imo (though I had it 3-2 Reyes but some of the early rounds were close)

Max vs Volk wasn't a robbery but it showed the scoring system doesn't tell the whole story
 
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Jones Vs Reyes. I get you have to beat the champ to be the champ, but i don't believe that just because you won the "championship rounds.'', that it should count more than winning the first three. 3-2 is a win for Reyes and i believe he won the fight. In any main event, championship fight, 3 round fight, if you win more rounds you should win the fight. A challenger shouldn't have to completely dominate a fight to win the belt, If you can say the challenger beat the champ 3-2 he should be the new champ. Where it gets tricky to me is in situations where a fighter wins 3 rounds in a fight but doesn't completely dominate, and the other fighter wins 2 rounds without a doubt by knocking the opponent down, ground and pound, total domination etc...... Example that comes to my head is Volk/Holloway 2. Volk won 3 rounds but didn't do that much damage. Holloway knocked Volk down twice which imo should be scored more significantly than just barely winning rounds. We need more 10-8 rounds in MMA.
 
Probably Tony lol.

On a side note, how the fuck is "Short Fuse" the last TUF 3 alumni? Dude should be renamed long fuse. XD

 
Joseph Rica said:
I get that logic, but in the rounds Holloway won he knocked down Volk twice. That has to count for more thank barely winning a round, or landing a couples of takedowns imo. I think we need to see more 10-8 rounds in MMA. Good fight though
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Yeah, but with the rules we have, it wasn't a robbery. Judged as a whole, Max absolutely had a better performance. I also get why people think Max won, but calling it a robbery is a bit too much.

I agree it would be interesting to give 10-8's faster!
 
Gotta say Jones Reyes, first thing that came to mind. That was bullshit. Almost Pearson vs Diego bad.

and Max won too.
 
All I know is everytime Diego fights in his home town he wins. I remember about 4 years ago he fought Ross Pearson in NM and lost handily, but corrupt UFC (judges) gave Diego the nod. That was my final leg on a parlay for around 3k. It fucking hurt losing like that.
 
weaselkenievil said:
Gotta say Jones Reyes, first thing that came to mind. That was bullshit. Almost Pearson vs Diego bad.

and Max won too.
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Just posted, was just thinking diego / pearson. was awful. i say the worst.
 
It wasnt a robbery but I thought JJ beat Zhang personally.

We've been pretty fortunate, not that many standout robberies last year, questionable scorecards definitely but usually they went in favour as a split with the right call still.
 
Ares Black said:
Neither of those rounds were remotely close to 10-8.
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maybe not, but a lot of people thought Max got ripped off. it was a pretty big controversy, even compared to my own pick Jones vs Reyes, i think a lot more people were bitching about Max vs Volk than Jones vs Reyes.
 
jfrito said:
Just posted, was just thinking diego / pearson. was awful. i say the worst.
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Awful indeed mate. There are many fights I disagree with and shake my head at, that fight had me throwing my beer and the tv off. Terrible decision.
 
Pancake Sprawl said:
maybe not, but a lot of people thought Max got ripped off. it was a pretty big controversy, even compared to my own pick Jones vs Reyes, i think a lot more people were bitching about Max vs Volk than Jones vs Reyes.
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That's because Holloway is much more popular than Reyes.

When Reyes lost the decision he was an unknown challenger who overachieved.

When Holloway lost he was a long-time champ trying to avenge a loss.

Neither decision was really a robbery, but Jones-Reyes was incorrect, IMO.
And Volkanovski-Holloway 2 not only isn't a robbery, it's actually the correct decision.
 
Ares Black said:
That's because Holloway is much more popular than Reyes.

When Reyes lost the decision he was an unknown challenger who overachieved.

When Holloway lost he was a long-time champ trying to avenge a loss.

Neither decision was really a robbery, but Jones-Reyes was incorrect, IMO.
And Volkanovski-Holloway 2 not only isn't a robbery, it's actually the correct decision.
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when you put it that way i can see why it wasn't as popular. the way i looked at it is that Jones is a long time undefeated GOAT that should've finally got his historical real 1st L. compared to Max who was a pretty good champ losing a close fight.

but being popular and young plays a much bigger role than i thought.
 
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