re: UFC Fight Night - Machida vs. Dollaway - (12/20)

49-46?

Get these fricking judges out of here

49-46?!

Miocic won the 1st two rounds and dos Santos won 3 and 5. 4 was a draw

49-46 x 2. frick that noise. I'd be pissed too if I'm Stipe. That's insulting.

ETA: to be clear I thought JDS won

Judging has been bad, but the UD here wasnt terrible. The 49-46 is bad, especially two of them.

I'm strongly in the camp that the UFC and MMA in general needs to develop an independent and unique scoring system.


As an inventor of a competitive sport, one of the first pieces of golden advice I got when we were in the infant stages of figuring the game out we were scoring it like tennis and some random old dude that stopped to watch us play told me when he asked how we were scoring it, that to stand alone we needed to come up with our own scoring system.

I then came up with something different and developed a scorebook to keep the stats and track the match.


This fight was a boxing centric match, but I think those 49-46's came as a result of all the take downs JDS defended. It's all subjective in the scoring now, who knows if Stipe really wanted to take him down, maybe his game plan was to pin him against the cage and limit the chances of getting caught by JDS and using the cage and clinch to drain JDS and pick him off with shots when breaking the clinch.


There really needs to a way to score all the facets of a MMA match. You get credit for a take down, does the guy get credit for getting back to his feet?

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I'm strongly in the camp that the UFC and MMA in general needs to develop an independent and unique scoring system.


As an inventor of a competitive sport, one of the first pieces of golden advice I got when we were in the infant stages of figuring the game out we were scoring it like tennis and some random old dude that stopped to watch us play told me when he asked how we were scoring it, that to stand alone we needed to come up with our own scoring system.

I then came up with something different and developed a scorebook to keep the stats and track the match.


This fight was a boxing centric match, but I think those 49-46's came as a result of all the take downs JDS defended. It's all subjective in the scoring now, who knows if Stipe really wanted to take him down, maybe his game plan was to pin him against the cage and limit the chances of getting caught by JDS and using the cage and clinch to drain JDS and pick him off with shots when breaking the clinch.


There really needs to a way to score all the facets of a MMA match. You get credit for a take down, does the guy get credit for getting back to his feet?

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The problem with this is it has to go through the athletic commissions which are mostly boxing guys who don't truly understand mma.

The workaround is to create an International Federation of MMA. It's honestly big enough, profitable enough, and competed in throughout enough countries to make a serious run at being an Olympic sport.

A sport has to have 75 countries that it is competed in to be eligible for Olympic consideration, there's a few other hurdles and the International Federation to govern the sport is the first step.


eta: Here's the IMMAF LINK


Looks like some Swedish fricks saw the money grab opportunity and took it. UFC doesn't appear to contribute financially to this thing, so it'll probably never be anything more than a leech on the MMA promotions.

Stipe was like 1-18 on takedown while Junior was something like 1-1 or 1-2.

JDS landed 30-40 more strikes, had the only knockdown I believe, and finished the fight stronger. Stipe definitely wasn't robbed. The judges got it right, even if their numbers were off.