Win, Lose, but Never Draw
It's hard to advocate for draws. They're usually the worst resolution to a contest because no one feels like anything was settled. It's not fair for someone to work so hard and have "nothing" to show for it. But what's more unfair is to lose when you don't deserve to. Last night's main event between Martin Kampmann and Carlos Condit was a fight so evenly-matched that neither fighter deserved to lose. Looking at the in-depth report on the fight, we see a first for a match posted here: Both the ten-point must system and the overall score call this fight a draw. Each round was exceedingly close, with both Round 2 and the overall score falling within our four-point margin for error.
A draw is not a No Contest. In a No Contest, it's functionally as if the fight never happened. A draw means a hard-fought effort that was equal to the other fighter's. In a sport filled with disappointing matches where guys just fight not to lose, it's sad that one of two people really fighting to win has to lose because judges won't consider the third way.
posted by FightMetric @ 10:12 AM
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Yeah, when I watched it I thought that this was one of the rare cases that should've been a draw as well.
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