{"id":226254,"date":"2017-03-05T05:54:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T13:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=226254"},"modified":"2017-04-14T14:09:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T21:09:06","slug":"ufc-president-dana-white-gives-scoring-ufc-209-main-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-209\/ufc-president-dana-white-gives-scoring-ufc-209-main-event\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC President Dana White gives his scoring for UFC 209 main event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November, in the co-main event of UFC 205, welterweight champion Tyron Woodley and challenger Stephen &#8220;Wonderboy&#8221; Thompson battled to <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-results\/ufc-205-results-tyron-woodley-and-stephen-thompson-fight-to-a-draw-highlights\/\">a thrilling majority draw<\/a>. With this result, Woodley hung onto the welterweight crown \u2013 though surely not in the fashion he had hoped.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, in the main event of UFC 209, Woodley and Thompson met again, with the goal of producing a clearer, more decisive result. Unfortunately, this welterweight title rematch was perhaps even closer than the pair&#8217;s first fight.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout this contest, Thompson was the busier man, pushing Woodley backward, but failing to land any especially damaging offense. Woodley, meanwhile, landed the fights more decisive blows and takedowns, but these moments were very rare.\u00a0The end result, then, was a disappointingly slow and incredibly close fight.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the judges would award Woodley <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-209\/ufc-209-results-stephen-thompson-vs-tyron-woodley\/\">a majority decision win<\/a> \u2013 though this result was <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-209\/ufc-fighters-react-thompson-vs-woodley-2\/\">immediately controversial among fans and pundits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One member of the MMA community who did not agree with the scoring in this welterweight title fight was UFC President Dana White, who explained to the media post-fight that he scored the bout for Thompson.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI had it three [rounds] to two the other way,\u201d White told reporters (via <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2017\/03\/ufc-boss-dana-white-scored-ufc-209-main-event-for-stephen-thompson-over-tyron-woodley\" target=\"_blank\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a>). \u201cI thought that \u2018Wonderboy\u2019 won three to two. One of the judges scored the last round 10-8, so that obviously throws [the scoring].\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>White then commented on the audible disappointment of the fans, who booed consistently throughout this anticipated welterweight title rematch.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s easy to sit in your seats, drink some beers and [eat] some popcorn and boo people, man,\u201d White said. \u201cThey\u2019re not in there fighting Tyron Woodley or Wonderboy. A lot was at stake, and these guys fought the way they needed to fight to win. Woodley came out and made some big claims before the fight that we would have a definitive answer on who is the champion and things like that. I like Tyron.\u00a0He\u2019s talented.\u00a0You\u2019ve heard me say all the things he is. You can\u2019t be upset at people now or whatever after that second fight.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you agree with Dana White on this one? How did you score the UFC 209 main event? Sound off, PENN Nation<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 3\/5\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November, in the co-main event of UFC 205, welterweight champion Tyron Woodley and challenger Stephen &#8220;Wonderboy&#8221; Thompson battled to a thrilling majority draw. With this result, Woodley hung onto the welterweight crown \u2013 though surely not in the fashion he had hoped. Last night, in the main event of UFC 209, Woodley and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":206384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10112,10643],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UFC President Dana White gives his scoring for UFC 209 main event | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Last night, Tyron Woodley defeated Stephen Thompson by majority decision \u2013 but UFC president Dana White didn&#039;t agree with that result.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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