*** Sterling vs. Yan Scoring MEGATHREAD ***

How Did You Score the Fight?

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Of course bitch Dana complains about a close decision but he's stayed quiet for more egregious decisions in the past
 
Xoleth said:
And how do you count them?
Two blocked strikes = 1 landed strike?
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I just count how the strikes are thrown(how hard they were thrown) and then look at who landed the cleanest/most non blocked shots. I had Aljo landing just as hard on their hardest 2 shots(Aljo's elbow and body kick vs Jan's punches) and then more less significant shots on top so I gave him the round cause I thought the damage/impact of their biggest 2 shots were even and Aljo clearly landed more overall.
 
Hassan Mouzine said:
round by round it was a close fight.

watching the fight as a whole i thought petr yan looked like shit. this was the worst version i have seen of him. i dont like both fighters and i couldnt give a fuck who got the win, but sterling looked improved and yan looked like he got worse
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Thats the thing. Yan has an argument to edge a win, but he didn’t do anything impressive to deserve it. At least Sterling showed dominant technique and held dangerous positions.
 
Had it very close, Yan let his emotions get the better of him. Think he'd do much better if they fought again.
 
With a reason. You shouldn't be able to win a fight and a belt by just wrapping your legs around your opponent and doing nothing with it (no damage at all, not even a convincing submission attempt)
 
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How Sterling doesn't get a 10-8 round is mind boggling........

What does a grappler have to do to show dominance? Took the man down, transitioned to his back, attempted a few sub set ups, landed a few nice ground strikes and was in no danger at all. How is that not enough for a 10-8?
 
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Petr Yan moving forward but not landing: "He's controlling the action he should win the round!"

Aljo controlling the action on the ground and going for submissions: "He's just stalling he deserves to lose!"
 
PIИKBLIИK said:
The judges disagree and the vast majority of the sports media had Sterling. The round one stats also back up that Yan got out struck.

Yan lost, time to get over it. Aggression and octagon control...give me a break. He was plodding forward and swining and missing haymakers out of anger. Everyone knows who won that round and who the undisputed champ is. I think the saltiness is just amped up because Yan and his fans were so loud for the last year about how Aljo's time was coming and what a beating he was in for and it turned out to be a much closer fight than they had anticipated with some moments of real domination from Sterling.
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I find this take kind of funny. The "saltiness" is more from how Sterling "won" the first fight and the antics over the last year. People wanted him to lose and Aljo knew that. Fans will always be annoying to a certain extent.

As for the debates in here as to who won, I don't think anyone is incorrect. The judges don't always score it based on the criteria (otherwise Torres would have won). The first round was a toss up and people are trying to justify it due to a 6 strike difference when in reality, the round could have been a 10-10. Hence a split decision.
 
OldNick said:
I find this take kind of funny. The "saltiness" is more from how Sterling "won" the first fight and the antics over the last year. People wanted him to lose and Aljo knew that. Fans will always be annoying to a certain extent.

As for the debates in here as to who won, I don't think anyone is incorrect. The judges don't always score it based on the criteria (otherwise Torres would have won). The first round was a toss up and people are trying to justify it due to a 6 strike difference when in reality, the round could have been a 10-10. Hence a split decision.
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Draw rounds are never scored in MMA. When the damage is equal, the scoring goes to volume. When volume is equal, then the scoring goes to octagon control. Only if octagon control is equal is the round truly a draw, but that never happens. In fact, equal volume also almost never happens.
 
websurfer said:
I recall Yan controlling the center of the octagon for all of round one. Sterling was on his horse circling around the whole time. Yan closed him down again and again.
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Cage control isn’t really a main criteria for scoring, I was confused by this as well since ring generalship is part of boxing scoring. Apparently not in mma.
 
Stirling has an inevitable bad ending coming to him regardless what his leg humping fans think. It’s not like yan took any amount of damage whatsoever and anyone watching that fight knows what the outcome should have been
 
Swarthy said:
Naw You have zero. Aljo Stealing is crap.
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Vitor Belfort literally won his championship fight by (basically) an eyepoke and never defended.

Bas Rutten sat in bottom position for the entire fight against Randleman and still won the championship somehow.

Josh Barnett won his championship and then popped for a juice cocktail right after.

Like I said, you have no knowledge of UFC history if you think Aljo is the worst champ. Recency bias my friend.
 
One interesting thing that isn’t being mentioned much is Yan didn’t register a strike until halfway through the round. My main argument would be neither landed anything particularly noteworthy or damaging, there was no strike that made any obvious impact from either guy. So with no clear discernible difference in quality, quantity comes into play which was in Aljo’s favor.
 
UTTERLY DOMINATION BY UNDISPUTED KING - ALJAMAIN STERLING
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