Former UFC title challenger Chael Sonnen says Alex Pereira lost to Jan Blachowicz in the UFC 291 co-main event.
Pereira won via split decision but a lot of people felt Blachowicz should have gotten the nod from the judges instead, including Sonnen.
“There’s no reasonable world where Alex Pereira won that fight and that’s not Chael’s opinion, that’s math. He lost rounds one and three,” Sonnen said on his YouTube channel.
“It was wrong. It wasn’t a robbery. I have seen worse. It was wrong. There is nothing by the numbers that could get you to the conclusion that Alex won,” continued Sonnen.. “You can look at takedowns, look at attempts; you could look at strikes; you could look at defense and see who slipped more punches. There was nothing by the numbers that could get you to a belief that Alex won.”
“The judges factored in a criteria, and they’re known to do this, it’s just not in the rules, of fatigue. Jan Blachowicz was exhausted and Alex was not. Jan Blachowicz could not move and Alex could.”
