{"id":327534,"date":"2019-10-07T12:42:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T19:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=327534"},"modified":"2019-10-07T12:42:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T19:42:13","slug":"edson-barbozas-manager-says-paul-felder-has-agreed-to-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/edson-barbozas-manager-says-paul-felder-has-agreed-to-trilogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Edson Barboza&#8217;s manager says Paul Felder has agreed to trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edson Barboza&#8217;s manager Alex Davis says that rival Paul Felder has agreed to a trilogy fight after their <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/edson-barboza-to-appeal-split-decision-loss-against-paul-felder\/\">controversial split decision outcome at UFC 242<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-242-results-paul-felder-defeats-edson-barboza-highlights\/\">Felder won a split decision<\/a> with scores of 30-27, 29-28 and 27-30 in his favor. The fact that opposing judges had the fights 30-27 in favor of each fighter was very concerning.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was extremely controversial amongst fans and media. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/mmadecisions.com\/decision\/10400\/fight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMADecisions.com,<\/a> 13 of 16 media members scored the fight 29-28 in favor of Barboza, with three having it 29-28 for Felder. Meanwhile, 63 percent of fans thought Barboza took the fight 29-28, with 28 percent going 29-28 for Felder and 1 percent with other scores.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Author&#8217;s note: I scored the fight 29-28 for Felder, giving him rounds two and three and Barboza round one. Round two was a swing round that was very close. It was a close fight no matter how you cut it.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Davis told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/10\/7\/20903143\/ufc-denies-edson-barboza-appeal-paul-felder-alex-oliveira-nicolas-dalby-copenhagen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMAFighting.com<\/a> that Felder has verbally agreed to the trilogy after the two have split a pair of fights previously. They also met at UFC on FOX 16 in July 2015, with Barboza taking home a unanimous decision in a &#8220;Fight of the Night&#8221; performance by both men in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPaul Felder is down to doing it,\u201d Davis said. \u201cI\u2019ll talk to UFC matchmaker Sean Shelby\u00a0this week. Edson wants the Felder fight, but we don\u2019t know if that\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davis recently appealed the decision with the UFC, who commissioned the event. He said the UFC denied the appeal, but he&#8217;s hopeful that just the act of appealing could represent some change for the good when it comes to MMA judging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the utmost respect for Paul Felder,\u201d Davis said. \u201cHe thinks he won, and he\u2019s very coherent. He also agrees that the scorecards were absurd. We all know it\u2019s absurd that one judge scores it 30-27 to one fighter and another judge scores it 30-27 to the other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the loss, Barboza has now lost two straight fights with a KO loss to Justin Gaethje in his previous outing. As for Felder, he&#8217;s currently riding a two-fight win streak with a unanimous decision over James Vick in his last fight.<\/p>\n<p>Who are you picking in the rematch: Edson Barboza vs Paul Felder?<\/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 10\/7\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edson Barboza&#8217;s manager Alex Davis says that rival Paul Felder has agreed to a trilogy fight after their controversial split decision outcome at UFC 242. Felder won a split decision with scores of 30-27, 29-28 and 27-30 in his favor. The fact that opposing judges had the fights 30-27 in favor of each fighter was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54474,"featured_media":325079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10425,10486,39610],"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>Edson Barboza&#039;s manager says Paul Felder has agreed to trilogy | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Edson Barboza&#039;s manager Alex Davis says that rival Paul Felder has agreed to a trilogy fight after their controversial split decision outcome at UFC 242.\" \/>\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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