I heavily bet DDP before the fight, didn't hedge, and won a decent amount of money, but I think strickland won this pretty convincingly and I am shocked I am in the minority based on the main forums. I think Strickland won rounds 1,2 and 5 convincingly and I think he won round 3 as well. DDP only clearly won the round where he busted stricklands cut open and had blood pouring down his face (i think R4). Stricklands jab and volume carried the fight and DDP's wrestling was ineffective because strickland just got backup and didn't take any damage or allow much control time. Very surprised here
However, the fight played out pretty much how I expected. Like I originally predicted, DDP can give the fight away by trading boxing with Strickland and not implementing his wrestling. Well, 3 minutes in R1 goes by and DDP's eye is starting to swell shut before he shot the first takedown, which is wayy too late. If DDP couldn't hold strickland down I would have liked to see more cage wrestling. DDP also should have thrown more body/head kicks because they were landing and Sean wasn't defending or countering them at all, free scoring in the judge's eyes.