Sean Strickland’s head coach, Eric Nicksick, is flabbergasted by the scoring in Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 200 main event.
The Xtreme Couture trainer saw his student get his hand raised in the middleweight matchup with Jack Hermansson, but not before one judge scored the fight against Strickland (25-3 MMA, 12-3 UFC), making for a puzzling split decision result.
Although the other two judges managed to get it right, Sal D’Amato turned in a dissenting scorecard, 48-47 in favor of Hermansson (22-7 MMA, 9-5 UFC). The reaction was a widespread confusion about how he could see the fight that way.
