Sean O'Malley Win Makes me think UFC Fixes Fights
Fan Favorite can't even stop a takedown but manages to win!?!
Hey Guys,
I was pretty angry watching Sean O’Malley win a decision over Peter Yan, a fight where he was dominated in takedowns and with leg kicks. The Sean O'Malley win debated decision over Petr Yan after brawling slugfest. The problem I have with this is how non-existent Sean’s takedown defense, control of the fight was in comparison to the UFC trying to “manufacture” a PPV star.
It’s not so much I was surprised to see Sean get the nod, but how disgusted I am at the sport and the UFC’s apparent and significant favoritism. It’s worse than when Connor beat Aldo in clearly a fixed fight all those years ago.
I really don’t want to watch fixed fights.
Yan dominated Sean with takedowns, stalking him with kicks, pretty much the entire fight.
Petr Yan is a wicked striker and it’s just sad he wasn’t able to KO Sean O'Malley who seems like an entirely fake star the UFC has been grooming. This was apparent by the incredible biased commentary. It makes me wonder at the legitimacy of the UFC altogether to be honest.
Yan, from Russia, entered the fight as the former bantamweight champion and as the No. 1 contender at bantamweight (135 pounds) in the official UFC rankings. O'Malley, 27, ranked at No. 11.
The fight wasn’t just robbery it was pure corruption from an MMA standpoint in history. UFC president Dana White said during the week leading up to the fight that the winner would be next in line for the title shot at bantamweight. The UFC have been trying to desperately pump another Pay Per View star and the pink haired O’Malley seems to be the best they could come up with.
Even the comments after the win in the cage from Sean were very dubious, something along the lines of the people want to see me to win. Yeah no kidding, you can barely do much if you cannot get the knockout, champ!
Yan’s defense is so good I’m not even sure he felt much of what Sean had to offer:
Yan simply controlled 'Sugar' on the ground for one-third of the fight, was able to take him down “at will”, and 'No Mercy' even out landed his foe in the striking department.
While Rogan admits he thought Yan won the fight, he credits O'Malley for the damage he was able to inflict. Yan took O’Malley down six times and somehow lost? It’s the angriest I’ve ever been in a sport clearly with match-making bias.
Let’s Look at some of the Stats
Petr Yan had a 46% takedown rate in the fight, and over 5 minutes of control time.
Due to Petr Yan’s defense and guard, the majority of O’Malley’s strikes didn’t even really damage him.
Yan’s kicks visibly devastated O’Malley as he had no answer for either the leg kicks or the takedowns. He was struggling for the majority of the fight.
Yan also won the battle of body strikes.
O’Malley seems to have been more “active” if you read the stats and didn’t see the right. All this means was O’Malley was very one-dimensional with head strikes his only “defense”.
Sean O’Malley literally has no defense, even his foot work was sloppy.
The guilty face of a young lion cub pushed to the wolves too soon:
Even Sean visibly knew he lost that fight. The kid knows this is just a business, it’s definately not a science.
My only consolidation is it’s not just me who thinks the UFC is losing credibility over this one:
and the incredibly polite:
this is more what I was thinking:
There you have it:
The problem is the UFC commentators clearly were siding with Sean O’Malley without any objectivity, the washed up champs turned commentators the UFC has trained (and badly). DC and Bisping have no business being in those chairs. DC especially is a clown.
The problem is with this decision, I’m starting to think the UFC since being acquired is a clown organization. This is the kind of decision where you lose fans, on a card that was disappointing that could have been great - should have been great! It was a stacked card, but left you just feeling empty.
Judges looking at damage at the end of the fight really don’t know how to judge a fight. I’m just afraid UFC favoritism played a big part in it, and it’s financial. The sport is clearly not regulated in a fair way.
All of twitter literally saw the same fight I did:
And it’s just weird that O’Malley opened up a cut on Yan, how did that even happen?
Robbery or not, O’Malley is now the top contender in the bantamweight division, but what comes next is still a bit up in the air. He’s clearly a tool of the UFC at this point. While Yan remains a better strike and better MMA athlete but not as marketable a fighter.
The UFC is one cut-throat business.
Even the way the UFC was presenting the fight stats seemed biased:
How do you dominate two rounds and lose a decision if the fight is not fixed?
A few weeks have passed and the fight is over, but this was worse than a robbery it might have turned off a lot of fans who actually want things that happen in the cage to count to the outcome.
What in the lack of combat sports knowledge did I just read. Yes, it's a controversial decision, bit you've got everything else wrong, or at best wildly misunderstood. Judges are not UFC employees, meaning a decision win wouldn't be fixed at the ufc level it would be a commission issue. Which is absurd to suggest with this small amount of "evidence." Takedowns don't win fights. Control time doesn't win fights. Read the rules, there was also that big judging discussion just recently that derails this thought.
You're not wrong, plus the distinct possibility of bias against Russian Yan by two of the judges...put it this way: if Jake Paul can pull off that obvious-to-boxing-fans work with Silva, what CAN'T billionaire Uncle Dana do to enrich the brand?