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Show the B.J. Penn vs. Jon Fitch fight to people who don’t know how MMA is judged, and ask them who won. They’d tell you it was Fitch, obviously. But of the three people whose job it was to decide who won, only one said Fitch was the winner. The other two said it was a draw, and so that was the result: No one won the main event at UFC 127.
What’s unfortunate is that the people who don’t know anything about MMA would have done a better job of judging this fight than the professional judges.
Jon Fitch deserved to win the decision at UFC 127. That the fight was a draw is a combination of the fact that MMA has bad judges, and bad judging criteria.