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Originally Posted by alnorth
and this is how GSP was given the first round. (The strikes were a heck of a lot closer than 36-16 btw, but that doesn't matter)
If you focus mostly on tallying up numbers, you may be inclined to give it to GSP, but those things are merely a tiebreaker for me. There's a reason why almost every single member of the media gave the round to Hendricks. Dana alluded to it in his rantings, but this is not really a game, this is a fight. If one guy is hurt more than the other, he should probably lose the round. If it was pretty much even then go ahead and start counting up points for the round.
GSP had several light strikes, a couple takedowns to Johny's 1, and a submission attempt, but Hendricks clearly hurt GSP, and that should have been enough to win the round.
I agree it was close, not a robbery, and Dana went overboard, but GSP should not have won the fight.
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In your opinion. In my opinion GSP won 3-2 which is what I called before they announced the winner. It was close and could have gone either way, but I'm not going to say definitively say GSP won the fight. It was going to be 3-2 either way. This wasn't a Pacquio/Bradley type decision and I think Dana was more butt hurt over GSP talking about a leave from absence when Dana was already counting bank on a rematch. GSP is a stand up guy and good dude, and Dana made him out to be Tito Ortiz/Nick Diaz.