The UFC Shanghai prelims delivered plenty of action, but one result had the fans in an uproar. The judges unanimously scored the bantamweight bout between You Su-young of South Korea and Xiao Long of China as 29-28 in favor of You. The decision didn’t sit well with a large section of fans, who believed that Xiao’s late push and ferocious third round were more than enough to earn him the win.

The bout itself had a clear divide in momentum. You seized control early on, pressing forward and outlanding Xiao with higher accuracy in the first several rounds. However, the narrative shifted radically in the final seconds of the fight. Xiao Long, fueled by the energy of his home crowd, unleashed a furious torrent of elbows, 35 of them in a sequence, that clearly stunned his opponent.

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