Paddy Pimblett is ‘baffled’ at UFC robbery callings: “I think that’s because people hate you.”

Paddy Pimblett’s celebration over his UFC 282 win was cut short by the reaction to it from fans and media.

Backstage at T-Mobile. Pimblett wasn’t able to take in his unanimous victory over Jared Gordon, so reporters informed him that the term “robbery”, was being used.

” I’m annoyed that people think they lost,” Pimblett stated during UFC 282 after-fight show. “I’m pretty annoyed, to be honest. But I’m 4-0 in the UFC – haters going to hate, you’ve got to get on with it.”

Pimblett walked into the Las Vegas arena as the breakout star of the event, given a walkout reserved for headliner status and cheered by thousands in attendance, more than a few of them wearing Pimblett wigs.

At the announcement of three 29-28 scores for Pimblett, the audience erupted, though a few boos could be heard. Whatever split he had, it was clear that the unanimous verdict for Pimblett was the unavoidable fact.

“It’s not as thought it was a split decision victory,” he said. But I will be truthful, I believed I had won the first two rounds, so I decided to take the third. It’s my own stupid fault – you should never take a round off, thinking you’re two rounds up. It’s obvious .”

Pimblett spent most of the third frame against the cage wrestling for position, and traded minor attacks with Gordon who frequently slapped him in the face with punches during the first two rounds. The lesson for Pimblett was clear in retrospect: never bank on judges’ interpretation of the action.

At the same time, Pimblett’s own interpretation of what happened didn’t leave room for any other conclusion.

“Nowadays fights are scored on damage. I have a cut lip. That’s all,” he stated. I did more damage every round. His face is beat up. He’s got a busted nose. His head was a bit cut, and he suffered damage to his eyes .”

Dominick Cruz, UFC commentator, pointed out a new metric, control time, as an argument which, at minimum, might help to understand those who witnessed the fight for Gordon.

“If somebody tells me I have six-and-a-half minutes of control time on me, I would, in my own position, wonder if, ‘Yeah, maybe I could see how you would think that the other person won,'” Cruz offered. “You don’t see that at all from any others, because it’s 15 minutes long.”

“I understand what you’re saying there,” Pimblett replied. “The control time, in the last round, yeah, he controlled me against the fence, but he didn’t do anything with it. I think I was landing the better knees and little short shots in those positions when he had me pushed against the cage.”

” It’s only a matter of “We can’t view any other…just 100% unanimous decision from you eyes?” Cruz stated. “There’s no chance …

“No,” Pimblett said. “Even the control time, I don’t see. Like, I’m going to watch the fight back, obviously. Some people have said to me, they think I won all three rounds, even the third, because he never did anything with the control time. I ended up on his back, landing a few shots.”

Officially, Gordon outlanded Pimblett in total strikes (100 to 97) and takedowns (3 to 0), while Pimblett was ahead on significant strikes (63 to 58), according to UFC stats. Twenty-three of 24 media outlets scoring the fight gave it to Gordon, with a little less than half giving the American the 30-27 shutout.

There’s a likely another conversation ahead about the MMA scoring and how judges look at the action they’re seeing. Pimblett believes that the accusations of a robbery are based on the professional’s personal preference.

“I think that’s just because people hate me,” he said.

Source: https://www.mmafighting.com/2022/12/11/23503797/paddy-pimblett-baffled-at-ufc-282-robbery-calls-i-think-thats-just-because-people-hate-me?rand=96749