Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-85.255.236.100-20180527201649/@comment-68.40.152.247-20180529150050

Nyanimations wrote: It's a close fight and Till took it thanks to being an aggressor and having an hometown advantage (the crowd went wild even when the shots did not land) which clearly swayed the judges' opinion. I also like the fact that Bisping didn't really back for his UK guy while Dan Hardy was all over Dern Till.

I saw many people justifying that Till won because Till pushed the pace and controlled the octagon as in putting Wonderboy on his backfoot and on cage. If that's the reason for giving a(n unfair 49-46) nod to Till, then Wonderboy should have won the second T-Wood fight. Both that fight and this fight are similar in a way that there are no decisive winner in those five-rounders until the last round where Wonderboy got knocked down and lost the fight 'decisively' but only this time the roles are reversed. Not saying Thompson won Woodley 2, but just saying..

Edit: I think the paradigm has been shifting lately. If the aggression, 'octagon control' and damage are what defines a winner, then Cruz probably would have dropped a lot of decisions in his fights tbh, sans the third Urijah fight. TJ would have gotten a nod in their fight since Cruz was basically on his backfoot almost the entire time. I need to rewatch but Till winning 49-46 and having UK judges in Liverpool hometown is bogus to me. Even the universally agreed super close TJ-Cruz was a razor close split decison. You are on to something. I will say without a doubt that Wonderboy won the first T Wood fight. Wonderboy's style is a disadvantage in decisions. In the Till fight, Wonderboy outstruck Till the majority of the fight. He was landing all the clean strikes, but Till is tough enough to not show any damage. The knockdown didn't change the fight anymore than Thompson's goofy takedown. The crowd cheering even when Till missed played a big part in how this was scored. Its sad for Wonderboy to take 3 recent Ls in fights that could have gone either way. The hometown advantage gave the decision to Till. The knockdown may have been from the weight difference.