The thing here is... what criteria do you use to score that round? Here we have a volume striker vs a hard hitting striker... for me Poirier was the one landing the more cleaner shots especially since Holloway just stopped trying to block some shots like that true savage he is and Holloway landed more shots. If u also take in consideration that Holloways face looked like it had taken alot more damage.
I feel like we the fans often take into consideration to what fighters press the action and moves forward, im all for different strategies as long as we see some action and if we dont the ref should be more active to make the fighters engage with point reduction threat. But the last 2 fights didnt have a single round were the criteria octagon control got into play, there was too much action happening.
We had examples earlier on this card with the Jouban vs Grant fight. Jouban didnt throw enough didnt cut off Grant and when exchanges happend a more or less one armed Grant actually got the better of those exchanges most of the time. So i would say it was Joubans own fault he lost, he should have tried to change something during the fight and atleast try to throw more, cut off the angles more and kicked to the body more. The fact is when u face an opponent that has good movement and cardio and ur best parts of the game are in striking then u need to use strategies to lure him in and counter, thats smart strategy. Im actully emberassed to use this as an example but look at Khalil tonight.. he used good strategy to pull off a victory against Anders thats so tough he probably would have won on his toughness if Khalil would have fought like he used to do.
So after this little rant i would like to say i scored Holloway vs Poirier... 48-47 to Poirier.