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Congrats to @JanBlachowicz for his successful title defense. Commentators were pretty biased against him during the fight but he had a near-perfect conservative approach. The champion was the betting underdog and even during the fight, he didn't get enough respect. #UFC259
There's a lesson in here about markets somewhere, probably around the topic of bias.
Imagine a fight where one person objectively lands more hits in every round (and bigger/harder), and yet commentators and viewers think the other person is winning.
Imagine a fight where one person objectively lands more hits in every round (and bigger/harder), and yet commentators and viewers think the other person is winning.
Partly this is from charisma/narrative momentum going into the fight, and then also how they "look" while fighting, with one looking crisp (but getting hit more lol) and never really putting the other in danger, and the other looking slower (but hitting more, and harder).
