Anyone else agree with Tony Weeks? (Finney vs Valentin)

[Dr Fong]

This thread should be retitled

Anyone else not understand the scoring criteria?

Just before I was listening to Jack Slack (who I genuinely like), the quintessential fart-sniffing MMA intellectual, thinks it is 'damage-based scoring' and commented that Weeks was probably technically correct 'according to the criteria'.

It's not just MMA's army of moronic clickbaiters leading the charge to complete ignorance. It's unfortunately the best we've got too.

 

[Oblivian]

I don't see how you give Rd 1 to Valentin, but I'd definitely entertain he could've got a 29-28.

 

[Söze Aldo]

 

[Lawrence]

I'm an amateur MMA judge and I had Valentin winning that fight, but had money on Finney so I'll take it!
As soon as the fight was over I wanted to see how others would react to that lone judge.

A judge placing wagers on the sport he judges ?

Odd. But with the 2003 account, I bend the knee and assume it's ok somehow.

 

[Violent Violin]

The main problem in this fight is whether the dominance in a tertiary criterion should weigh more than barely winning the primary.

No, by definition "primary" trumps "tertiary."

 

[Dr Fong]

I just listened to Thomas' take on this and it was pretty bad. He struggles quite badly with some of the basics of judging routinely.

However, although Thomas is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is, he is still smarter than most people in MMA. So again, like with Jack Slack, it's some of the better people who don't know what the fuck they are talking about, not just morons. Which is a problem.

Weeks is not a 'hero' for bad judging. He is there to do his job and use the criteria. It's up to the shitty commissions to fix their shitty scoring system, not him to take matters into his own hands.

 

[yossarian1979]

A judge placing wagers on the sport he judges ?

Odd. But with the 2003 account, I bend the knee and assume it's ok somehow.

I only bet on UFC fighters and when I get my pro license that all vanishes.