LAS VEGAS – Danny Barlow had a scary name on Saturday night time.
The UFC welterweight was one scorecard away from shedding to Nikolay Veretennikov, as his UFC on ESPN 61 bout resulted in a cut up choice studying favoring him. Nonetheless, many on-line thought Barlow (9-0 MMA, 2-0 UFC) had a transparent victory over Veretennikov (12-5 MMA, 0-1 UFC) throughout their fundamental card bout. However maybe extra curiously, the scorecard favoring Veretennikov gave him all three rounds.
Though many on-line freaked out on the 30-27 scoring for Veretennikov, Barlow wasn’t sweating it.
“That’s what occurs while you go to the choice,” Barlow informed reporters on the UFC on ESPN 61 post-fight interview. “It’s out of my fingers as soon as it goes to choice. Once I heard it, no, I wasn’t bothered by it. However yeah, it’s what it’s.
“As soon as the decision bought to the judges, I’ve seen some loopy issues occur. So I simply just about like, yeah, I felt like I received, so I wasn’t anxious about it. However like I mentioned, you’re going to have some judges that make these kind of choices.”
Outdoors the odd scoring, Barlow was glad along with his efficiency and what he was capable of show within the octagon. He did anticipate the combat to be extra intense, however all in all, was proud of the win.
“It wasn’t a shock as a result of we positively was ready,” Barlow mentioned relating to his efficiency. “We have been ready within the clinch, and I really felt greater than him within the clinch. He was a really huge and robust man, however that’s one other factor I felt like we have been profitable in. Our gameplan was profitable. I wasn’t actually stunned by something. … I anticipated him to be a beast, particularly him coming off all these wins and ending guys. I used to be anticipating it to be extra of a canine combat.”
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