Here's the fight video of Alexa Grasso defending her UFC Flyweight Championship against Valentina Shevchenko from last night's UFC show in Las Vegas. The rematch is because Alexa needs to prove that her win wasn't a fluke. And Valentina wants to prove that it was a fluke. But will Valentina be more aggressive? As it turned out, it didn't matter because Alexa's win by submission in the first fight was a fluke. This fight was what I thought the first fight would be. It was close but neither of them came close to a finish. I scored the fight 48-47 for Alexa. Round four was probably the closest round. I gave Alexa rounds two, four and five. I gave Valentina rounds one and three. So why was it a draw? Based on the scores, Valentina should have won the fight 48-47. The judges scored rounds one, two and three the same as me. But in round four, Mike Bell and Sal D'Amato scored it 10-9 for Valentina and Junichiro Kamijo scored it 10-9 for Alexa. So even if all three judges scored round five 10-9 for Alexa, Valentina wins the fight 48-47. But Mike Bell inexplicably scored round five 10-8 for Alexa. This gives a new meaning to the term robbery. A draw means Alexa keeps the title. I don't know how he came up with 10-8. And we'll never know as the judges are not allowed to explain. So now we will get a third fight, right? Except Valentina broke her hand. And I don't expect the UFC to put off either Erin Blanchfield or Manon Fiorot. So we may never see a third fight between these two. Check out the video for yourself and see if round five is a 10-8.
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