Has a judge scoring a UFC fight ever had a medical episoda?

[King Pun**]

Say 1 of the 3 judges passes out due to heat stroke or gets lupus etc. Is there an undercover 4th judge scoring as well so they have all 3 cards. Or do they just use whatever scores that judge had and go off which judges are left for the rest of the fight?

 

[BigTruck]

They pulled a judge from the last fights and replaced him so they got to have backups and I don't think it's the same judges for every fight so there's plenty of ppl to take over if needed.

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

Say 1 of the 3 judges passes out due to heat stroke or gets lupus etc. Is there an undercover 4th judge scoring as well so they have all 3 cards. Or do they just use whatever scores that judge had and go off which judges are left for the rest of the fight?

In the Jones-Reyes fight all three judges had temporary blindness

 

[DS66]

Ah yes, sudden onset Lupus. I would hope they have a backup judge ready to step in if needed.

 

[moreorless87]

Cecil Peoples guest stared in Scrubs if thats what you mean.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

The backup judge is Hunter Campbell

 

[Your Salad]

There is a single backup and his name is Howie Booth.

 

[Pitier of Fools]

If you think about it, it's pretty shocking that no judges have ever come down with lupus in the middle of a bout.

 

[mjfan23]

Yes. When scoring the Ostovich vs PVZ the judges had all their blood rush to their privates and not enough oxygen in the Brian to judge properly

 

[VAfan]

they flip a coin.

 

[El Fernas]

During the fight who knows if they get someone from the AC to provide an scoring if the remaining 2 lead to an unconclusive result, before the fight, no issue, more than 3 judges there during fight night.

 

[PaddyO'malley]

they flip a coin.

#PowerSlap style I dig it

 

[Local Plata]

2 of the judges smoked the same meth before for O'Malley/Yan fight. And all 3 judges had simultaneous Transient Ischemic attacks during the Paddy/Gordon fight.

 

[Sticko]

I'm not aware of any judge having a medical episode in the middle of a bout.

If a judge passed out in let's say the middle of the third round of a five-round fight and was medically unable to continue, my best guess is the fight would be declared a NC. But I'm not sure if there are even any rules or regulations about this sort of thing or if it would just be down to the athletic commission making a decision on the fly.

 

[omawho402]

Say 1 of the 3 judges passes out due to heat stroke or gets lupus etc. Is there an undercover 4th judge scoring as well so they have all 3 cards. Or do they just use whatever scores that judge had and go off which judges are left for the rest of the fight?

That's actually a great question. It's too bad everybody is just making stupid jokes and not providing any insight because I would really like to know.

 

[2004 account]

They do have an extra judge already

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