UFC President Dana White Discusses Bad Judging And Reffing In MMA

he should be asking for a rule change on the 12 to 6 elbow

Yes, BUT he kicked the guy two times in the junk. The first one was pretty brutal.

Did whatshisface milk it? Yes. Did he try to get points off a clean kick later? Yes.

But, dude needs to watch where he’s kicking. Erick Silva got DQ’d for one strike to the back of the head (that’s how I counted it, anyway, Yamasaki maybe saw differently in the heat of the moment).

Bruce Leeroy kicked the guy twice in an illegal zone. Personally, I didn’t really care for that fight either way.

Was that Herb Dean seemed to be forcing Figueroa to continue to fight. After that second MASSIVE low blow. It should have been a DQ and the fight should have been over.

Bear minimum it should have been a NC and a move along.

Nothing about that was fair to Figueroa. And if that isn’t changed than people will still borderline use low blows as an offensive advantage.

Hammil could not continue because of his shoulder injury from the throw, not the 12-6 elbows.

Because there was never any controversy in Pride right?

I won’t let it fade me though.

2 point deduction for 2 hard nutshots. I like the symmetry.

I could be wrong.

Not pointing fingers as any ref in particular

I can’t help but think that you are thinking of Herb here – simply because he has dreadlocks and appears relaxed.

I don’t think that would be good for anyone.

how pervasive the mob is in regards to MMA.
we have a great (by ‘great’ i mean ‘extensive’) history of mob involvement in boxing, so i guess it wouldn’t be entirely out of the ken of possibilities.

Seems like there are many more suspect decisions in fights than mistakes by the refs. The bad ref calls more often than not can be chalked up to human error from heat of the moment decisions. Protecting the fighter and whatnot. Not to say I haven’t done my fair share of screaming at them through the TV though.

but i don’t see how anyone can reasonably disagree with that statement.

I wrote a long post and it gets murdered on me.

Anyway, I just said the five minute round system in MMA doesn’t really make sense with a traditional boxing-based judging system. The rounds are too long, and the sport is too complex, to accurately break down into a 10-9 or 10-8 winner. It’s no wonder than close fights end up a coin-toss when they go to the judges. Probably a better system would be to judge the fight as a whole—-as in who won most of this fight, using the round more like periods/quarters in a normal sport. Of course this just opens up more room for controversy, but the fact remains that MMA is not a judge-friendly sport like boxing or kickboxing, where you only need to look at one-or-two points of attack.

I mean, to me the winner is the fighter who controlled the tempo/place of the fight and most actively worked for a finish. I don’t know if there is a system that could fit the sport effectively, since there are thousands of techniques to look for and, really, a close fight is as subjective to call as your opinions of music or movies. Of the last few months, I’d be fine with considering Condit-Diaz and Shogun-Hendo draws because to me there was no clear winner. But the sport, as a promotion, NEEDS a winner, so you’re more or less flipping a coin based on who won, in your opinion, specific rounds.

I think the ONLY satisfactory method would be to judge the fight as a whole, and then if the fight is deemed close, the fight a sudden-death round to decide the winner. Of course, this is also a pretty dumb/dangerous idea, but the current point-fighting method of judging in MMA is not really tailored to the nature of the sport.