UFC 198 Shogun loss didn’t bother Corey Anderson until he watched the tape

It’s no secret, fighters are often the worst judges of their own efforts when it comes to who won or lost a bout on the scorecards. The memory of Forrest Griffin running out of the cage, eager to rid himself of a loss to Tito Ortiz, only to find out he’d actually won the fight, still stands as a great reminder that being there isn’t necessarily the best metric for judging.

That seems to be the problem Corey Anderson is grappling with after UFC 198, when he was pretty well resigned to the fact that he lost his fight with Mauricio “Shogun” Rua. Anderson pressed the majority of the action in each and every round of the fight, but got dropped twice in the first two rounds and never quite managed to create his own fight changing offense against Shogun. Here’s what he told MMA Junkie Radio about his thoughts as the scores were being read:

“I mean, in the cage, when it happened, I was talking to (UFC ring announcer) Bruce (Buffer),” Anderson told MMAjunkie Radio. “I said, ‘Tell me, Bruce. Tell me now before you say it on TV, I …

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