A lot of people are calling Robbie Lawler’s split-decision “win” over Carlos Condit at UFC 195 “controversial.”

Which is an insult to the word “controversial.”

We could rightly call Saturday’s UFC 195 main event “controversial” if Webster’s Dictionary ever changes the meaning of the word to … “when the wrong person gets their hand raised.”

Otherwise, let’s call Saturday’s split decision what it really was: A shafting. Ugly. A mockery.

• To say “Robbie Lawler beat Carlos Condit,” would be accurate if you ignore key facts of their five-round fight. If you’re blinded by your fanhood, and absolutely smitten by Robbie Lawler’s warriorness, then you could say he beat Carlos Condit on Saturday night (despite the challenger out-striking Lawler by a whopping 198-78 margin).

• If you’re completely mesmerized by Lawler’s explosive displays of firepower, then you could say he “beat” Carlos Condit (despite the fact that Condit threw nearly four times as many strikes and daringly charged forward the entire fight while Lawler predominantly backpedaled).

• If you are OK with Robbie Lawler having, at best, four good minutes of a 25-minute fight (while Condit stalked him and controlled the fight for the remaining 21 minutes or so), then you could say Lawler “beat” Condit.

• If you jaunted to the bathroom during that pivotal Round 3, or spent part of Round 3 talking to a buddy on the phone, or browsed Facebook or Twitter during the round, then you might have scored the round for Robbie Lawler (and understandably missed the fact that Condit again stalked Lawler throughout Round 3, landing twice as many significant strikes as Lawler in the round and throwing nearly three times as many). You might have missed the fact that Lawler never hurt Condit whatsoever in Round 3.

• If you consider Condit’s high volume of kicks to the legs and mid-section, and punches to the head to be “pitter patter” (as a good friend of mine alleged), then you could say “Robbie Lawler beat Carlos Condit.” You could call Carlos Condit a “pillow puncher,” even though 28 of his 30 wins have been finishes (an astonishing 93%), and 15 of those have come via TKO.

• If you consider Carlos Condit to be a pillow punchers, and his strikes “pitter patter”) … George’s St. Pierr’s dinged-up face after his fight with Condit told a different story; and tell that to Rory McDonald (whom Condit beat up and stopped); and to Johnny Hendricks (who didnt’ want to stand and bang with Condit); and to Martin Kampman (whom Condit TKO’d); and tell that to Robbie Lawler (who respected Condit’s power and skill so much that he backpedaled for the vast majority of Saturday night’s fight).

Robbie Lawler is a good person and was a worthy champion. My respect for his skills, sacrifices and valor is immense. He is unquestionably one of MMA’s most entertaining fighters and it is not his fault two cageside judges got it wrong.

But to say the words, “Robbie Lawler beat Carlos Condit” … I can’t bring myself to do it. Just seeing that sentence feels ugly.