In their new book Scorecasting, Jon Werheim and Tobias Moskowitz explain why officials are at their worst when it matters the most. Jonathan Snowden takes a look at how their idea of an officiating "omission bias" can apply in UFC fights as well as basketball or baseball games.
The Nevada State Athletic Commission has assigned referees and judges for this Saturday's UFC 125 event, according to the Las Vegas Sun. Yves Lavigne has been assigned to referee the main event, a lightweight title fight between Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard, while the judges scoring the bout will be: Patricia Morse-Jarman, Marcos Rosales, and Glenn Trowbridge.
Bloody Elbow's Mike Fagan collects and compiles the best of the best of the best quotes from around the MMA universe for September 5th - 11th.
Did Yves Lavigne Really Make Statements About Josh Koscheck's Chances vs. Georges St. Pierre?
MMA quotes for the week of May 24th through the 30th.
One of the major stories to come out of last weekend's UFC 98 event was a controversial stoppage by referee Yves Lavigne, in the Phillipe Nover-Kyle Bradley prelim fight. This of course, was...
While no video seems readily available, it's being reported at Sherdog that Yves Lavigne repeated his dubious stop-and-start refereeing performance last night at UFC 98 in the Kyle Bradley vs...
A look at the power law and it's applicability to MMA referees.
A look at the power law and it's applicability to MMA referees.
Yves Lavigne wiped down Anderson Silva at UFC 97 and avoided a potential GreaseGate II.
