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The first fight wasnt controversial or hard to score even. Volk just had Max's number, and max admitted that volk just had better gameplans in each of the fights. What really happened was that people assumed max lost a step because volk beat him, when really they should have just been praising volk.
You and i don't score impact the same way. We know this since the Aljo/Yan rematch. According to the fight stats, Volk landed 75 low kicks in the first fight with Max and 67 in the second. How you judged some of these matters a lot in your perception of how close the rivalry has been.
But regardless, my main point is that the third fight was lopsided because Volk damaged Max early (not luck, no excuses, all credit to Volk), which made him easy work in the subsequent rounds and gave everyone the impression that skill-wise, Volk had reached 'another level'. I guess you disagree and think that cut or no cut, Volk would have run away in the scoring regardless?