Karine Silva earned a decision victory over Dione Barbosa at UFC 319 while many fans booed the result. Silva expressed surprise at the fan reaction and said she felt she had been close to submitting Barbosa in two rounds. Silva noted that judging now favors measurable damage over control and believed she had the fight in the bag despite its closeness. The matchup was a rematch of their 2019 bout, which Barbosa won. Silva said the outcome did not feel like revenge because she believed she had won the first meeting and focused on doing her job and making her team proud.
"I was a little bit surprised with the reaction of the fans. I thought I was closer to submitting her for two of the rounds. Nowadays it's damage over control," Silva told reporters including Cageside Press through a translator at her post-fight scrum. "I thought I had it in the bag. I knew it was close, but I knew I had won it. I think the fans came to expect me to always finish my fights because that's who I am. Unfortunately that's not what always happens."
"In my head it wasn't really revenge for me because I felt I won the first fight. I didn't come here with the vengeance mindset. I came here with the mindset of doing my job, making my team proud of me, and putting the work that we worked on during all these months together," Silva told Cageside Press.
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