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CMIIW but this is not the first time Dana has disagreed with the judges' decisions. Why hasn't he changed anything yet?

Judges should be independent from the fight organization and cannot be terminated by them. Otherwise, the owners could pressure them and affect how they score a fight.

Regarding the new point system, it doesn't really matter if they score it per round or the entirety of the fight. Judges will still have the sole discretion on how they will interpret and apply the set criterias. Some decisions can become controversial but there is really no better alternative. Unlike in other sports where players can challenge a call/decision, it is impractical to apply that in the UFC or other MMA organizations.

Sterling-Yan was a very very close fight. Sterling clearly took round two and three while Yan was dominating rounds four and five. Round one indeed was the decision maker. It was so close and it depends on how judges may prefer. It was clear that Yan was controlling that round that sent Sterling backpedaling and was like in survival mode. But we cannot deny that Sterling was slightly leading on strikes although soft and insignificant but still they landed. I thought Yan won round one but I am not surprised that two judges gave it to Sterling. Certainly there was no robbery there . Just like that Chimaev-Burns close round three. Chimaev was controlling that round and was landing heavy shots but there was a moment when he was like relaxing with his hands down and Burns made him pay by landing heavy bombs. And stats actually says Burns was landing more significant and the total strikes in that third and final round. I believe Chimaev won round three but also there's a valid case that it may be given to Burns.   

On the other hand, Yan did not made a big damage to Sterling. That can be counted as Sterling has superior defence, compared to Yans attacks. Most important round was first one. It can be considered as draw, but title fight can not be settled as draw, so judges gave discount Sterling for being a champ, and that is why he has won with a 0.01% advantage. Like I've said, dont let judges choose your faith. Yans fault that the fight last all 5 rounds.

It was how I speculated the fight to happen hehe.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.59784709

Rounds 1 to 3 will be for the oscar best actor and rounds 4 to 5 will be for Petr Yan and the Aljamain Sterling to win with a split decision. It was the neck injury of Aljo during training for the first fight, it cause him not to train harder which also affected his cardio.

Now that the UFC 273 has passed and has given us a juicy-juicy fight and I really think that the 273 was really an epic event because of what Gilbert Burns and Khamzat Chimaev did, and Khamzat Chimaev don't want the easy route but decided to brawl with Burns, but I think the next event is some kind of OK so here it is,

UFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Muhammad 2

April 16, 2022, UFC Apex facility in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States.



Main card

Welterweight    Vicente Luque   vs.   Belal Muhammad   
Middleweight      Caio Borralho    vs.   Gadzhi Omargadzhiev      
Welterweight      Miguel Baeza     vs.    André Fialho
Women's Bantamweight   Mayra Bueno Silva   vs.   Wu Yanan            
Featherweight   Pat Sabatini   vs.   T.J. Laramie
Welterweight      Mounir Lazzez    vs.    Ange Loosa

Preliminary card

Heavyweight     William Knight    vs.    Devin Clark
Women Bantamweight        Lina Länsberg      vs.     Pannie Kianzad
Lightweight       Drakkar Klose    vs.     Brandon Jenkins
Lightweight   Rafa García   vs.   Jesse Ronson            
Heavyweight   Chris Barnett   vs.   Martin Buday
Lightweight        Trey Ogden       vs.    Jordan Leavitt            
Women's Strawweight   Istela Nunes   vs.   Sam Hughes            
Bantamweight   Heili Alateng   vs.   Kevin Croom



Events fights will surely change and are not yet final the information can be found here Tapology

I completely agree with everyone here who said Yan won this fight.
And if the president of the organization says the same thing with stating the judges were wrong. Then you know something has to be changed there.
Either finding a new points system or checking on the judge who made this blunder and terminate him from judging any future fights.
This decision made everyone I talked to so far very upset in how the fight was called.
Except for maybe the ones who bet on Sterling to win of course.
Did you hear the boos from the crowd before the match when he came out and even louder afterwards?

I am not surprised by Alexander Volkanovski and Khamzat Chimaev winning their fights and there was no doubt about that, but fight between Aljamain Sterling and Petr Yan was controversial again.
Even Dana White said that judges made a wrong decision with giving split decision win to Sterling, and I think they messed up with their point system.
I think that Yan won this fight, he had more significant strikes and much more total strikes than Sterling.
Sterling did have few takedowns but that was not enough to make him a winner in this fight.

Totally he is not ready for Kamaru Usman, but he is saying that he needs to TKO Colby Covington which I think Khamzat Chimaev would surely do if he follows the game plan, in this fight but Khamzat Chimaev just doesn't want to sway his head he surely is familiar in taking punches and gets ready for it kind of thing, but with this kind of style he is not really for a Kamaru Usman, but this fight is sure enlightenment for him, he respected Gilbert Burns after the fight, he surely needs this beating to realize what he lacks,


It sure is a bummer not betting for Sterling, Aljamain Sterling is pretty much confident that he will win, and if he does not gas out on their 1st fight maybe people will not doubt him, I sure doubt him in my previous post because I have bet for Petr Yan and I don't see what Sterling is capable of, sure Petr Yan is great in his performance, but he surely lacks composure and Aljamain Sterling might have increased his cardio prior from this fight, Petr Yan needs to accept the reality he surely underestimated Aljamain Sterling and that is not right when Yan think he dominated sterling in their 1st fight /match,


I totally agree, unfortunately Gilbert Burns knows what to do when Khamat Chimaev is locking on his submission moves, and thanks to Burns being a BBJ champion and pretty much he knows how to handle guys on the ground, but if Chimaev's level of combat sambo is just like Khabib's or Islam he would surely have a fighting chance, when near the Octagon wall Khabib or Islam is more dangerous from that position,

Yeah, definitely. At the end of the day he went against number two, and proved himself capable. Although, I do think he had the wrong game plan, and that's why his corner was yelling at him so much. However, he got the win no matter how close it was. He will definitely learn from it, and is still very young. I think its almost inevitable he gets his hands on the title one day. Although, the only doubt I have is here is that the other fighters in the division now know how to go about it, that's if they can stay up right that is.

Honestly, I think Colby won't pose much of a threat to him. Although, Usman definitely will. To beat him you have to stay standing or have the threat of submissions yourself, which to be honest outside of Burns looks pretty bleak in comparison to Chimaev.

^  Chim showed that he belongs to the top tho.  He was unknown and rose the rankings real quick.  There's def a huge gap between the fighters he's fought and Burns...  I guess the books will start adjusting the lines if he's matched vs Covington, Usman or even somebody like Luque.


Mother fkn Yan the pie shitter!  I would've won 4 of my tickers if it weren't for that split decision?  I haven't watched any replays yet but I had Yan winning.  I mean it was def close but watching it live, I saw it for Yan.


I had R1 for Yan but dunno.  I was prolly drunk.  Lolol.  

Anyway, what a great event.  I guess Volk has established his dominance at 145 just like how Adesanya has established himself at 185?  There's prolly a couple more prospects for Volk tho like Arnold Allen and maybe Josh Emmetif they can get in at top 5.  

To be honest, I took a look back at the previous Sterling vs Yan fight, and although Sterling did get dominated, I do believe a lot of it was due to him gassing out. He went 100mph early on, and ultimately paid the price after that, at least before the illegal knee.

This time he came into the fight with a game plan, which he executed almost perfectly. There probably is a case for Yan, although personally I think Sterling won it. I'm also of the impression that if you want the belt you need to be pushing the champion more than that, even if you think he's a undeserving champion at that point.

I didn't like the way Yan was acting prior to the fight, and he didn't handle himself that well after the fight either. So, if he wants the belt back, he'll have to get it at a later date. Sterling did well, and in my mind just did enough to retain the belt. Plus, I was a critic before about being able to get a belt through disqualification, but this time he proved everyone wrong, made it competitive, and quite frankly had the most dangerous moments in the fight.

Chimaev on the other hand lost his composure, and didn't follow his game plan. He needs to learn from that, although the only defense I have for him for not looking for more takedowns is that Burns is for some unknown reason to me really underrated on the mat. He was a BJJ champion, and is one of the most defensively sound on the mat.

What I have heard is that Dana White is also a little disappointed to see the outcome of this fight and how the judges scored the fight.  Even in the Press Conference, he did say that it was all good and the winner is actually the deserving one but I think that there have been a lot of things going on Twitter about this and it obviously suggests that dana white is absolutely not happy with what happened.

See this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw4kMh1wItg

I have re-watched Aljo vs Yan fight. What can I say, Aljo has outplayer or tricked everyone. His has made a vision, that he is not a real champ, but he took 1 year to prepare for this fight. He has taken 2-3 rounds. Yan took 4 and 5. The fate of the fight was decided in the first round. On one hand people would say that Yan was more aggressive, he was working as Nr1, he took centre of the ring, Aljo was always stepping back and defending. But if you watch closely, you would see that a lot of Yan strikes missed Aljo, Aljo did not get a damage and etc. This is not way to win a title, being more aggressive or active is not enough to win in such fights.

Yan can say that he was robbed, he was feeling pressure (as he wasnt allowed to carry Russian flag for example), he did not have his team in corner, come up with real or fictitious excuses. But the fact is, if you want to get a belt, you must win persuasively.

Yeah, I have to agree that this, while an admirable showing, really highlights that Chimaev might want to take a different approach than the old Nate Diaz chin durability tactic because that will not play well with Usman. The good thing is that he actually has chops that take him above the rest of the division, it's just this too tough to care mentality that needs to be thrown out the window. And he's still young enough to make that change.

Well, let's just say Chimaev really takes Gilbert Burn's punches, because Khamzat Chimaev isn't the type to swing his head to evade a shot he is the type to withstand punches from his opponent, he surely is relying on his durability and strength a lot on the 1st round Khamzat Chimaev is more technical Chimaev was on the southpaw and catching Burns with a southpaw jab, if he just continued to do this then I think he could deliver a good fight against Burns but again Chimaev went from a technical fighter to a brawler but Gilbert Burns is a kind of a brawler and pretty much good with it, overall after this fight, I think that Khamzat Chimaev is not really ready for a Kamaru Usman fight, I think it is good to set up a Colby Covington for Chimaev first,

But this fight against Gilbert Burns was an experience for Khamzat Chimaev and it is a good thing that he fought Burns first if he can take it in and learn from this fight he can surely use that and dominates the entire Welterweight division if he would truly humble himself from not using power so much Khamzat Chimaev is only 27 years old and in the rank 11 defeating a Rank 2 in the division is surely is a big feat for him, but respect for both fighters for Khamzat Chimaev in facing Burns head-on and giving us a great fight and for Gilbert Burns this fight is not a downfall for him, but a stepping stone, I think many are truly positive in what has Burns has accomplished here, even though he lost to Chimaev, he gains respect and it is not a negative but a positive feed back for him, so a full respect for Burns and Chimaev.

No more easy fights for Khamzat Chimaev and he learned a great lesson against Gilbert Burns, if there was enough time in the second round we could have seen a finish and the next fight can be Colby Covington if he is willing to take the fight and i am sure Khamzat Chimaev will be tested if it is going to be a five round fight.

I was certain that Alexander Volkanovski would win and i was expecting the hype train to continue moving forward but it ended up being a great fight. Petr Yan was really helpless on the ground and i liked the game plan of Aljamain Sterling and if not for that two take downs Petr Yan would have won the fight.

Khamzat Chimaev showed that he can overcome adversity and then come back and win the fight, i had a feeling Khamzat Chimaev would be overconfident and i was expecting him to get trapped in a submission but he was smart about that as he was hesitant to go on the ground. Gilbert Burns is a really great fighter and to have a win against him means he is ready for the belt.


Petr Yan loss cost me a lot of money, i made multiple parlay bets and i had Petr Yan win in 4 parlay bets which is worth a lot of money and it is a real disappointment.

Khamzat probably realized now that he isn't ready yet for Usman, he was rocked twice. If it weren't just 3 rounds, he could have gassed out already and lose the fight. I predicted he could submit or knock Burns out but was absolutely wrong in this. I'm sure I'm not the only one who also have this prediction.

Matches like in UFC273 made me predict someone is going to sleep, Unanimous Decision is the worse result in MMA fights.  The only that I won was the main event. Disappointed with Yan and Khamzat result.

I wouldn't go that far, quite clearly Khamzat was rocked multiple times in the fight, and was stumbling pretty bad at one point. Potentially saved by the end of the round. While he definitely took Burn's best shots, it wasn't without hurting from it. I'm impressed that he was able to take the shots, and survive mind. Especially, when he got the take down whilst rocked, that isn't easy against someone like Burns who is incredibly good at preventing take downs.

Burns also got buzzed a few times though so I do agree it was an absolute war. Honestly, on a different day both of them could have been knocked out multiple times over. I don't know who got hurt the most, the jab that hurt Burns seemed to be quite substantial at  first, but the he starts basically hammer fisting Chimaev from the bottom position, getting just as many substantial hits as Chimaev, which resulted in him relieving some of the pressure, and allowing Burns to get back up. Then at one point Chimaev pretty much got folded, it was a two punch combo, the second one from Burns was more of a looping drag, but you could clearly see Chimaev was out of it there, and was stumbling.

Honestly, that's probably as close as a  fight you're going to get whatever the decision was you couldn't really argue either way. Too close to call accurately.

UFC 273
Here are my picks for UFC's Tomorrow fight

Alexander Volkanovski VS The Korean Zombie - WIN

Alexander Volkanovski really is technical and has the advantage in this fight, in the round 4 if Herbert Dean would not likely to Stop the fight the Korean Zombie fight take the punishment, but yes it could be a very controversial fight because the Korean Zombie is still standing up but Herb Dean just stop the fight, but Dean has seen something off about the Korean Zombie that is why he doesn't hesitate to stop the fight, the Korean Zombie is taking so much damage from Volkanovski and it was a real win for Alexander Volkanovski.

Aljamain Sterling VS Petr Yan - LOST

It was controversial some say that Yan has won the fight and some say that Sterling really made a progress, I should have gone with Sterling but it was a risky decision but Aljamain Sterling is pretty sure that he would win this fight and I guess he isn't wrong about that he can surely win this with the decision, the fight round was the controversial one, but Aljamain Sterling really land more hits, mostly light punches, but we can also get Aljamain Sterling is true to himself but saying that they would become rich in betting in him and he is right about it, it was a good fight but I should have risked this bet,

Gilbert Burns VS Khamzat Chimaev - WIN

Just like I thought it was a war both fighters have shown tremendous heart and pretty much the fight is more of a brawl and Khamzat Chimaev is taking Burns punches like it was nothing it was not a technical fight both fighters are showing heart by giving their all and exchanging and taking punches like it was nothing, but salute for both fighters, now that this fight has been settle there is no doubt that Khamzat Chimaev can give a decent fight but I think this fight will surely humble him a bit, but this fight I think will be a learning experience for both fighters, well at first Khamzat Chimaev is more technical on the fight landing most jabs, and shots to Gilbert Burns, but when it comes to Brawling Gilbert Burns has the advantage, I really think Khamzat can be more technical with Burns but out of respect and enjoyment on the fight, all technical aspect was thrown out of the window, but after seeing this fight, I can say that Khamzat Chimaev's wrestling is not like with Khabib Nurmagomedov and Islam Makachev, because he surely has problem taking Burns in a ground fight, and sad to say Khamzat Chimaev is not ready for a Kamaru Usman fight yet, maybe a Leon Edwards or Colby Covington first before getting him a Kamaru Usman fight.