Diego Sanchez won the 1st and 3rd rounds. End of story.

I think Guida won the stand-up in the 3rd round, thus having him edge the 3rd 10-9 and probably coming to a draw 28-28 (depending how you score a 10-8 round). But good article, no way you can call it a robbery, I think your point is the right one that something should be done to fix either the scoring system or to prevent ambiguity at the end of fights. And i guess the best thing about it is that this is an easy fight to go back and watch again.

that is your criteria, or brickhaus’, other peoples could very well differ. I feel as though when a fighter who i THINK wins a fight loses a fight i THINK that fighter was robbed.

Not to say that this is without bias, or even on the same level as your definition, but your definition isn’t the be all end all

it’s clearly an split-decision for sanchez

Round three is the most contentious with, in my opinion, Diego getting the better of the striking and Guida getting top control late (after escaping a Sanchez back mount attempt) but not doing much damage or any positional advances.

In what way did Diego win the stand up in the third round, Clay landed the only real shots of that round plus got the takedown and some gnp the third was clearly Guida just like the second.

Like I said in the other thread, this wasn’t a robbery this was armed robbery with assault. Clay showed he’s a top 5 LW and beat Diego I don’t give a fuck what these refs say. I swear the only time i’ve ever been as pissed off by a decision was also against Diego in the Karo fight. I still don’t know how he won that fight but he must have someone on the take for him to keep getting these wins you can only get lucky so much.

it was a close fight that could have gone either way but we all knew if it was close that sanchez would get the decision but i totaly agree with mike fagan 2 guys like these with there skill sets the fight should have been a 5 round fight, 3 very close rounds just arent enough to find out who the better man is most of the time. I believe veterans who fight eachother with plenty of fights on their record should be able to fight 5 round fights, I also am split on the idea that championship fight should go 7 rounds!

What is a robbery in boxing? Here’s a hint – it’s not a decision that you merely disagree with. It’s a decision that is impossible; that there’s no reasonable way the judges could have scored the fight in favor of the fighter who actually won.

     I strongly disagree with that definition of a robbery. To me, if I think a fighter has won a fight and does not receive a win then it is a robbery. Now, there are different degrees of robbery of course from the disputable to the insane. If Guida was announced the victor I would have said Diego got robbed but that’s not what happened.
     In basketball fouls are always hotly debated after a game. Should a baseball fan have the right to say their team got robbed if replay shows that one of their runners was called out when they were safe. Clottey got robbed too (IMO) but life goes on and of course I admit it was a close fight. But in my mind, if a voter wins 50.1 of the vote, while the opponent wins 49.9, 50.1>49.9 so anything short of a win for Candidate A is a robbery.

I’m really surprised people thought it was close. I thought Diego clearly won. In fact if Guida hadn’t gotten a takedown I may have scored RD 1 10-7 Sanchez. Guida got absolutely demolished in RD 1. The rest of the fight was razor close.

I had it 10-8, 9-10, 10-9 for 29-27 Sanchez. Yes Guida scored some takedowns but often didn’t do anything with them and in some instances Sanchez was doing extremely well off his back with elbows to the head and submission attempts.

i dont mind losing a fight or 2 of lower teir matchups to the undercard and off of the main ppv card as long as the 5 round matchups or 7 round championship matchups are good solid fights. To often lately good quality matchups that should have and could have gone 4 or 5 rounds have ended after 3 rounds with no definitive winner ala franklin vs. henderson or franklin vs. silva or davis vs. hardy and i could go on and on naming fights where the extra rounds really wouldve given us what we pay to see and that is a definitive winner and great fights

I think another thing a fight like this shows is that we should be thankful that MMA, and maybe specifically, didn’t inherit the emphasis on records while they were growing. Boxing has always had these guys who don’t get to a bigger card until they are 35-0, 40-1, things like that (i could be wrong, but when i was into boxing years ago i believe that was the case), and thankfuly MMA has been able to avoid that where a fight like this will help Guida, and not hurt him just because he lost.