One thing that Lederman said after the fight was that Chocolatito's corner did not have the right substance to stop the bleeding of the cut(s). There was an incredible amount of blood loss. It was a bad cut, but could it have been better contained? Did the bleeding affect the judges scoring? I wasn't shocked Sor Rungvisai got the decision, he had the knockdown, and though Chocolatito re-established control in rounds 3-6, you could make the argument that Sor Rungvisai won some of those rounds down the stretch. Chocolatito finished strong in the 12th, but like 7-11 were really very close rounds. I take my hat off to Sor Rungvisai, this was a modern day bloodbath. I'm not sure how accurate those punch stats were, but there were definetly rounds that Chocolatito outlanded him a lot, but on a round by round basis I think you can make the argument that Sor Rungvisai may have edged him 7-5 (with the KD and the point deduction evening out). At one point I thought Sor Rungvisai was just giving away rounds by not blocking upstairs enough, but towards the end (before the 12th) he started to re-assert himself and do some good work in there. The bleeding of Chocolatito may have played a role even though the judges aren't supposed to score based on that, when a guy is just bleeding that heavily I'd say it's quite distracting to see that much blood when you're trying to score a fight. Is the corner to blame for not being able to stop that cut from bleeding so badly?
He had Miguel Diaz one of the best cut men in the business. What do you do when a guy purposely butts you like 5-10 times in a fight? The blood did influence those shitty judges imo.
Huge fan of Roman and I feel REALLY SAD that he lost (because he actually won), but those headbutts weren't intentional. Roman was charging forward all night... orthodox + southpaw. It happens.
