Michael Bisping isn’t sure how judges awarded Movsar Evloev the win over Lerone Murphy.
Evloev (20-0 MMA, 10-0 UFC) defeated Murphy by majority decision in the UFC Fight Night 270 headliner Saturday from The O2 in London. Evloev won four rounds on two of the three judges’ scorecards, which led to two 48-46 scores after the point deduction.
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Bisping scored the rounds completely differently, and had Murphy (17-1-1 MMA, 9-1-1 UFC) winning the fight.
“I’ll just get to the point: I thought Lerone – and I’ve got nothing against Movsar, and this is not me being biased, for all the American fans – I thought Lerone should have won that fight,” Bisping said on his YouTube channel. “I thought he won the first three rounds. I thought Movsar didn’t pick it up and really start going for it until Rounds 4 and 5. And clearly Movsar won Rounds 4 and 5.
“He dominated those rounds. He busted him up, he damaged him. Lerone was talking about at the end of 4, he blew his hip out and whatnot. But even still, that’s three rounds to two. And then, even if you give Movsar the third round, which was a close one, Movsar had a point deducted for the two groin shots. He had a point deducted in Round 4.”
Bisping could also see the fight being scored a draw, which one judge did, as did 12 of 17 media members on MMA Decisions.
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“Movsar Evloev, you’ve got to say congrats because maybe I’m wrong,” Bisping said. “Maybe I’ve got to watch the fight back. But I thought Lerone, his takedown defense was great. When Movsar did force the takedown, he was able to get back to his feet relatively easily. I thought he landed the cleaner strikes on the feet. Nothing with particular consequence. There wasn’t like the biggest – he didn’t wobble him, and stumble him, and all that type of stuff.
“But I thought he landed the cleaner shots, and I thought he won the first three rounds. Now, maybe I’m wrong, but there was the point deduction. So again, should it have been a draw? Because if it’s two rounds a piece, and the third round, let’s just say Movsar won three out of (five), well then, he’s essentially lost one of them because he loses the point. So, if anything, it should have been a draw, in my humble opinion.”
This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Michael Bisping thinks Lerone Murphy beat Movsar Evloev at UFC London
