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Editor in Chief of MMA Torch, Jamie Penick, recently presented solid claims for BJ Penn having been the victim of an unjust decision at UFC 112, where he lost the UFC Lightweight Championship to Frankie Edgar. I’m afraid I have to respectfully disagree.
B.J. Penn got outworked in that fight, and deserved to lose. While FightMetric scored the fight for the former champion, the more reputable CompuStrike numbers reveal that Edgar did indeed defeat B.J. Penn last night. If the CompuStrike name is familiar to you, that is because that is the system that Strikeforce actually uses on air and broadcasts as factual information.
In my eyes, and apparently in the eyes of CompuStrike, there was just no way that BJ Penn won that fight last night. Edgar took him down twice, and outstruck him 90-81. BJ Penn offered almost no leg kicks, no takedowns, he didn’t drop Frankie Edgar, and he was flat footed in his slow march towards Edgar the entire fight, so I fail to see any concrete logic as to why Penn should have been declared victorious.
Edgar even did considerably more visible damage to Penn’s face. I’ve come to the conclusion that the argument that BJ’s strikes were more effective, even though he threw less and did less damage, only speaks to the fact that if this were a fight between Edgar and someone not named BJ Penn, the result of this fight wouldn’t be up for discussion.
That judge who scored every round for Edgar was watching a different fight take place, but I really see no way that Penn soundly defeated Edgar to the point that it could be considered unjust or any sort of Machida/Shogun style "robbery."
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