Tuesday, June 10, 2014

MMA JUDGING

After watching this past weekends fights, specifically, Sanchez vs Pearson I, as a completely devoted MMA fan, be it local, regional, or UFC, i cannot help but wonder what is the deal with the people who's only job is to pay attention to the fight, and score it appropriately. The scoring in that fight was an absolute joke. They may as well have been playing jewel crusher on their mobile phones than scoring an entertaining and actually pretty good fight. Having said that, Sanchez did NOT win that fight by any means possible. I myself have rewatched the fight several times as well as im sure some of you die hard fans have. And hey, some days our favorite wins and some day he loses, but the judging in that fight was as bad as the recent fiasco on The Ultimate Fighter when terrible scoring and reffing cost someone their chance at advancing in the tournament. We have all heard Dana White go on about "do u want to be a fuc$&g fighter? Finish fights, dont leave it in the judges hands" and yes that is the goal of everyone who steps in th ring or cage, and that is to finish their opponent in spectacular fashion, and have replay KO,S and Submissions, but not every fight will end that way even if the fighters leave it all in the cage, and we are treated to war between to closely matched men or women. So the question is, who is training these people to be judges, and how much training do they need before they make completely bone headed decisions? And its not just the fact that you may have lost a bet , or your fighter didnt win, the fighters suffer financially. Pearson put it best when he was quoted saying "they basically took half of my earnings tonight" I agree. Nothing is ever going to be perfect in any sport or competition, but someone has to hold the so called pro judges accountable for their actions and their training. Most of the time it goes smoothly and to the victor goes the spoils, but maybe its time to stop spending thousands of dollars on creating promotional shirts ans stickers and pics of half dressed ring girls, and TRAIN THE JUDGES WHO HOLD THE FATE OF THE FIGHTERS LIVELYHOOD IN THEIR HANDS. Hey most of you that read the stuff i bitch about and its just opinion and its whatever, but i think this is serious bullshit and the people in charge need to be held accountable, and train the so called "judges" Let me know what you think, good bad or whatever. Peace

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