Have you ever been in a fight, took a few lumps, and the next day, after someone sees your battle wounds, asks, "did you win"? The common response is, "you should see what the other guy looks like!" There's a lot of truth to that scenario. As I always say, he who looks worse, LOST!
As any fan of Mixed Martial Arts knows, judging has become a humongous problem in the sport. Martin "The Hitman" Kampmann's demolition of, yet loss to Diego Sanchez is just the latest example of this ongoing issue that truly threatens the overall health of the sport as it attempts to continue to foster further growth.
We can go and break down the fight, minute by excruciating minute, and debate on end about who deserved the decision. That's been done ad nauseum already. That's not what I care to do anymore. The only issue I want to bring up related to this, one that any human being with decent vision can easily see, is physical damage. Shouldn't physical damage be a determining factor in who won a fight? Obviously, a score has to be given at the end of each round since we are using the 10-9 must scoring system. That's the same ridiculous, outdated, and inapplicable scoring system that we unfortunately 'borrowed' from another sport completely. That nonsense is a whole other debate. Back on topic, the extent of physical damage done to a fighter is visual proof of how effective the fighter who administered the beating was. I'm not saying that a fighter who gets cut badly, by one technique, immediately should be considered the loser of a fight. I'm talking about when a fighter looks like he just got run over by a truck, it's blatantly obvious that the other dude got the job done. Especially when he looks relatively unscathed in comparison to the dude whose face he just turned into chopped meat. That insane amount of physical damage is visible proof of who was the more effective fighter. That was the case on Thursday night. "The Dream" lived through an absolute nightmare and the HITMAN should forever change his nickname to "The Dream$masher"! It was that bad! I haven't seen someone look as physically abused from a beating in a mixed martial arts fight since Enson Inoue got basically facially disfigured by Igor Vovchanchyn in the good ol' Pride days.
The ever so eloquent, Charlie Sheen, has made the term "winning" the new, hot word of the moment. The definition means many things, the most obvious being, victor. Charlie would never use "winning" to describe that nightmare The Dream lived through Thursday night. Give Diego credit for surviving, but he did not win that fight in any way, shape or form!
As they say, a picture is worth a thou$and words. Do any of these pictures look like the face of someone who is "winning"?!?
Bottom line, dude got worked and worked BAD! There's no disputing that reality. He was still leakin' blood 20 minutes after the fight was over while on his way to the hospital. This was a beating of astronomical proportions!
In the words of the great Charlie Sheen, "it was EPIC!"
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