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Dave Tirelli and Cardo Urso both had it 29-28, with Iaquinta winning the final two rounds, while Doug Crosby was the lone dissenter, scoring it a 30-27 clean sweep for Masvidal. Thirteen of the 15 documented media scores on scored the fight for Masvidal, but the Virginia judges ultimately saw things differently. There were a lot of respectable fighters who tweeted that I won that fight, and that's what I take most of anything - people who know about fighting, people who know in the second and third round when things get tough, what it's like to just keep coming forward and really want it and not shy away from a battle." It could've went either way depending on who you ask. What does that count for? There's just so many different ways you can score a fight like that. "He's landing a punch going backwards and it's just touching me on my head," Iaquinta continued. I'm not trying to take him down like I need to take him down. I'm grabbing his leg, and if he's in good position, I'm throwing punches out of it.

Do you remember me trying to take him down eight times? I wasn't shooting, like, Ben Askren takedowns, where it's like my life depends on it and I'm shooting and I'm really getting him to the ground. "One-hundred percent, stats do not tell the whole story," Iaquinta said. And while Masvidal out-landed Iaquinta in each round, including a 86-55 edge in total strikes, Iaquinta led the dance for the latter stanzas while tenderizing Masvidal's lead leg, which seemed to sway the judges. Masvidal put Iaquinta on wobbly legs with a salvo to close the opening round, but then failed to capitalize, electing instead to back up and counter throughout the second and third frame. Masvidal, too, appeared disgusted by the decision, departing without conducting a post-fight interview. The crowd in attendance at Virginia's Patriot Center booed Iaquinta lustily after the decision was read, prompting the New Yorker to rip off a memorable expletive-laden rant before storming out of the cage. I think he was fighting like he wanted a paycheck, and that was the difference in the fight." "The second and third round, I came to fight. The last minute of that first round, he beat my ass, I'm not going to lie.

Even the first four minutes of the first round, I think I came after him. He wasn't fighting, and I was pushing forward. "I think the second round, third round, he took off. "I do, I think I won the rounds," Iaquinta said on Monday's edition of The MMA Hour.

The fans in attendance in Fairfax didn't exactly agree with the decision, but after re-watching the fight several times, Iaquinta stands by the outcome. Iaquinta scored perhaps the biggest win of his career on Saturday, gritting out a split decision over highly-respected veteran Jorge Masvidal after stumbling early in the co-main event of UFC Fight Night 63. Al Iaquinta isn't backing down from the commotion of this past weekend.