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FightMetric Report for WEC 48's Chan Sung Jung vs. Leonard Garcia - Bloody Elbow

I admit it: for all intents and purposes, I missed the front runner for fight of the year the first time around. As my friends left for a party, I fired up a stream of the Spike prelims in order to get in a few games of NHL 10. I chalked it up to hyperbole when I heard Goldberg and Rogan losing their minds two minutes in. When the Hyperbole Train hadn't checked into the station at the end of round two, I knew I had missed something good.

Oops. Not only did I miss unnamed organization's Griffin-Bonnar moment, it turns out the judges royally messed up the decision.

Before we dive into the FightMetric stats, here's how some of the top MMA media members scored the bout:

Brent Brookhouse scored it 29-28 Garcia (Jung won round 1)
The Sherdog Staff (Breen, Fridley, and DeSantis) scored it unanimously 30-27 Jung
Ray Hui (MMA Fighting) scored it 29-28 Jung (Garcia won round 3)
MMA Weekly scored it 28-28 draw (Jung won round 1 10-8, Garcia won rounds 2 and 3)
MMA Junkie scored it 29-28 Jung (Garcia won round 3)
Josh Gross (Sports Illustrated) scored it 29-28 Jung (no round-by-round)

Brent Brookhouse will be playing the part of Douglas Crosby.

A lot of people thought the judging was wildly incorrect. First, let's take a look at the FightMetric Effectiveness Scores and their extrapolated ten-point must decision:

Garcia Jung TPM
Round 1 53 198 10-9 J
Round 2 160 158 10-10
Round 3 110 145 10-9 J
Total 323 515 30-28 J

Eek, not looking good for the judges.

The raw striking stats throw some sand on the fire. For the fight as a whole, Jung outlanded Garcia in every category with the exception of leg kicks, including total strikes (106-71) and HiPer strikes (78-52).

Jung dominated round one. He outlanded Garcia 51-18 (36-10 HiPer strikes) including a clear knockdown during the fracas. I saw Garcia missing a lot of strikes during the round, but even I am surprised by the "elusiveness" of the Korean Zombie.

It's rounds two and three that make the fight difficult to score and keep it from becoming an Easton/Beebe level of robbery. Jung outlanded Garcia 32-25 in the second frame, but landed a virtually equal number of HiPer strikes. Garcia outlanded Jung in round three, though Jung landed the more effective power shots to the head (13-8).

It should be pointed out that Jung took Garcia's back in the middle of round two, albeit briefly.

As usual, this isn't the travesty some might make it out to be, though Jung, in my mind, is the "rightful" winner.

Photo via @badboygarcia

[Leucoethiops]

Jung looked like he was outworking Garcia, I'm not really sure how the judges gave Garcia the nod...

[lwbrewer]

There was no emotion from Jung and Garcia basicly won the hearts of the judges. fightmetrics was basicly how I saw it too. It will make a great rematch next year

[Mirko45]

Someone at the show took a picture of the scorecard and put it on twitter, I was stunned to see all 3 judges gave round 3 to Garcia. I had it 30-27 Jung and feel this is yet another case for giving judges monitors because they clearly weren't seeing the whole fight

[tucker50]

I thought the Zombie won, everyone gave him round 1, but the second and third were cole enough for it to be a coin flip for the judges. I think the last 2 rounds were to close to really complain about this fight.

[jdwall]

ya know what, the cheesy saying there is no loser definately applies here zombie just inherated a ton of fans, wec still promoted it as theyre fight just not on spike the fans got a hell of a show w/ arematch in the works, and the fighters get fon bonuses and ill bet dana & wec manag will rub a little extra grease on the chin of jung for him if u know what iz sayin

[IceCold48]

i've come to the conclusion that the fight was so crazy and back and forth that the judges didn't know what to do so the decided the winner of each round by doing enny meeny miny mo

[lwbrewer]

Originally Posted by IceCold48

i've come to the conclusion that the fight was so crazy and back and forth that the judges didn't know what to do so the decided the winner of each round by doing enny meeny miny mo

All joking aside thats probely a better explaination then the judges would give I dought this hurt Jungs stock any with WEC. Bonnars still around need I say more

[b1uef1ow]

2 bad judges. Guy gets dropped and eats a whole bunch of clean punches that transform his face into the elephant man and he gets the W for his troubles WTF? Seriously It's starting to look more an more like these decisions are fixed.

[lwbrewer]

Originally Posted by b1uef1ow

2 bad judges. Guy gets dropped and eats a whole bunch of clean punches that transform his face into the elephant man and he gets the W for his troubles WTF? Seriously It's starting to look more an more like these decisions are fixed.

I think it is more of the judges going in with a precieved out come and letting their mind see it that way. Most people if the are rooting for a person notice all of the plus's and over look the Negitives. It's not right but believe it's true.
Just like they say they can insert single frames in film the naked eye can't spot but it influences you with out realizing it. I feal the prefight hype does just that.