TJ eating the much more significant blows, head getting snapped back all round. Cory landing more damage
and again cage control doesn’t matter unless the quality of striking was equal. Which it wasn’t.
I’ll never understand people who think cage control matters the same as everything else. Walking into punches isn’t impressive. It’s really not a factor in 99% of fights. Like it doesn’t count at all.
Effective aggressiveness =\= walking into counters until your eye has a gaping wound that almost stopped the fight
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to me the fight was pretty clear
round 1 + 3 were easily Dillashaw’s and I thought Sandhagen pretty clearly won 2, 4, and 5. I can see some arguments about 4- I don’t see it personally but it’s not some miscarriage of justice. Close fight. The decision in itself is fine. How the judges broke the rounds down was not IMO
The guy who invented the scoring criteria had Sandhagen winning for whatever it’s worth. Pretty much everybody who I follow says Sandhagen won. But at the end of the day it’s not a robbery
And not to get lost in this debate but what TJ accomplished in this fight was f***ing insane. It’s not an undeserved win. He was a pit bull in there and put himself in a position where he could win after taking massive damage. All this after missing over 2 years. Hats off to him, I’m excited to see him vs Yan when Petr dispatches of Aljo