You may believe fighters from Australia or New Zealand\u2014on the bill in 12 of the night’s 13 fights\u2014arrived predestined to win any fight that was close.<\/p>\n
If so, the majority decision given to Kaan Ofli was no surprise, even if you disagreed.<\/p>\n
But to the broadcast team, it was still good for a verbal gasp or two.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old featherweight had his hand raised for a second straight time after two judges gave him two of three rounds against Chinese foe Yizha, who got a draw from the third judge but was considered a lock by Bisping and Cormier.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know, man,” Cormier muttered in the immediate aftermath of Bruce Buffer’s official announcement. “I don’t know.”<\/p>\n
Anik agreed, saying, “I think it’s safe to say that everyone at the broadcast table agrees with you.”<\/p>\n
It wasn’t universal, however, as B\/R’s W\/L scorecard agreed with the majority and had Ofli up 29-28, giving him the first and third rounds. In fact, all three judges gave him rounds one and three, with the single deadlocked score resulting from judge David Lethaby’s 10-8 margin for Yizha in the second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You may believe fighters from Australia or New Zealand\u2014on the bill in 12 of the night’s 13 fights\u2014arrived…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-446792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}