{"id":461267,"date":"2022-10-24T10:09:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T17:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=461267"},"modified":"2022-10-24T10:10:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T17:10:38","slug":"michael-bisping-explains-why-sean-omalley-won-at-ufc280-that-was-a-close-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/michael-bisping-explains-why-sean-omalley-won-at-ufc280-that-was-a-close-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bisping explains why Sean O’Malley won at UFC 280: “That was a close fight”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sean O’Malley won a controversial split-decision<\/a> over Petr Yan at UFC280. And while Michael Bisping had Yan winning the fight, he understands why the judges scored the fight the way they did.<\/p>\n

O’Malley won the first and third rounds on two of the three judges’ scorecards. That shocked a lot of fans and fighters, some of whom gave Yan all three rounds. But Michael Bisping didn’t see it as that one sided.<\/p>\n

“That was a close fight, a very, very close fight,” he said on his UFC280 post-fight show (via Sportskeeda).<\/a> “I thought Sugar Sean won the first round because Yan is a slow starter… I do recall at the end of the fight that I thought Petr Yan won, but I don’t think it was a robbery.”<\/p>\n

“It was a very close fight,” he reiterated. “The number one criteria in judging a fight is damage. I think if you looked at Yan, he had absorbed the most damage.”<\/p>\n