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The fight was investigated after all by the WMMAA with 3 unofficial independent judges to re-score the fight (due to Maldonado's conflict of interest accusations, which were never actually proven, and of course the scoring controversy). All 3 independent judges had it a draw (28-28) where evidently he did get the 10-8. The unofficial scores that I posted had 4 draws and 1 card in favor of Fedor where I included a Play-by-Play from a Bloody Elbow journalist that covered the action. Like I said from the beginning, it was a drawish fight. Maldonado won the first round big. How big is the question (a 10-7? No, especially not in a 3 rounder). Judges hesitate to hand out 10-8's as it is but now that's changing due to the recent Unified Rules changes that provide much more clarity when scoring them in particular. Prior to these changes I've seen many rounds that I was sure would be scored a 10-8 that weren't scored as such, and again, particularly in 3 rounders this ended up being the case. It's not surprising when you think about it given the limited number of rounds they have to work with and the risk associated with putting too much weight into a given round.Yeah, that's not a reasonable argument. If round 1 wasn't minimum a 10-8, then 10-8s don't exist in MMA.
You wanted his reasoning so here it is. Why did Tim Burke of Bloody Elbow score Round 1 a 10-9 for Maldonado rather than what many believe should've been a 10-8?
The guy never tweeted him back because he likely accepted his argument as reasonable.
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