Thanks for posting. Very interesting and frankly stunning read. In the second fight, the dissenting judge seems to show disregard for the actual rules which say that only effective striking and effective grappling (damage and submission threats) count in the first instance. Only when there is no difference in that regard, stuff like ring control can even be taken into consideration.
But this guy goes deep with his alternative interpretation: "Lara had some great leg kicks in the first round and was bruising the inside of the leg. Diana kept coming forward, so I gave (Diana) the first round. [Maybe he left out some stuff because that round seems to have clearly been Diana’s but according to this observation, it should have been Lara’s round!] The second round, (Lara) was landing those kicks. Now Diana wasn’t coming forward, so subjectively I thought she had diminished energy. She wasn’t active coming forward, and Lara kept coming forward and was hurting her with the leg kicks. But I really thought she had some right power punches that were more effective the second round and incurred a good bit of damage. That’s why I gave it to her. I thought her striking was more effective – maybe not more efficient, but more effective.”
He seems to decide correctly in the end but it feels very strange to me that someone who is being paid to judge professionally will even talk about this “coming forward” and even the vague diminished energy kind of stuff (if it is not from actively being tired out by having your opponent doing the backpack or sth like that) because those simply should not matter according to the rules.
Anyway, great to hear from judges but that really did not convince me that the decisions are in safe hands.
It’s interesting to hear their perspectives. I think a lot of judges have not trained and have little knowledge of the sport. I like the idea of more ex-fighters, like Leben, reffing and judging.
Yeah same. The dude is 34 years old and carries on like a teenager most of the time. Even when admitting his faults he has to wrap it up with a bunch of “fuck I’m great” sprinkled all over everything.
When O'Malley was a nobody, it was quaint for Conor to send positive messages his way - like ruffling your little bro's hair on the way out the door. Now that O'Malley is a named fighter who people outside the sport are starting to know, he's a threat for Conor.
I have no idea what “BMF” refers to in this, but a friend and I use that to mean “Bitch Mother Fucker”. So I’m just going to assume that that’s what this BMF title is for as well.
These promotions really got to build their own fighters up and stop picking up washed ufc fighters. No one is gonna to watch Karate combat for luke rockhold.
I agree, but I don’t think new/up and coming organizations can afford that. Promoting unknown fighters for a small league probably costs more than drafting UFC vets, who likely draw more eyes on name recognition.
I'm trying to follow the PFL and its annoying because they do the 5 embedded episodes leading up to their fight card. PFL should just make one because no one cares enough to watch 5 behind the scenes videos for a pfl card.
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