Is Sal D'amato the worst judge in MMA?

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I seem to remember him constantly getting fights incorrect and being the 1 dissenting judge way more often than most. I have been watching the prelims today and saw him do it again in the fight between Julia Polastri vs Cory McKenna where Julia clearly won rounds 1 and 2 and the fight 29-28 but somehow Sal had the fight for Cory.

Not sure if anyone has stats on split decisions with the minority opinion but I would expect D'amato to be one of the leading judges in this statistic. What do y'all think is there a more consistently bad judges than D'amato in MMA?
 
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Cecil Peoples scored it 10-9 for __________ used to be a punchline.

Like if someone posted about a horse drowning, you'd say, "Cecil Peoples scored it 10-9 for the horse."
 
I think Chris Lee is the worst. Sal gets some difficult fights correct quite a few times. If I recall correctly, he was the sole judge to score Matt Hammill over Bisping back in the day, which I thought was very obviously a Hammill victory!
 
I don't remember their names. Sal is the name i hear alot in robbery discussions though so I gotta be him.

There was one judge who had Chito winning against Sandhagen. I don't care what happens in the future, he's among the worst just for that. Same with the guy who had 30-27 Tuivasa when he got dominated by Rozy.
 
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NoBiasJustMMA said:
I seem to remember him constantly getting fights incorrect and being the 1 dissenting judge way more often than most. I have been watching the prelims today and saw him do it again in the fight between Julia Polastri vs Cory McKenna where Julia clearly won rounds 1 and 2 and the fight 29-28 but somehow Sal had the fight for Cory.

Not sure if anyone has stats on split decisions with the minority opinion but I would expect D'amato to be one of the leading judges in this statistic. Whar do y'all think is there a more consistently bad judges than D'amato in MMA?
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You could pick someone and make an argument. It's sort of like picking out who is the most annoying on the show 'The View'. There is no wrong answer.
 
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I don't remember their names. Sal is the name i hear alot in robbery discussions though so I gotta be him.

There was one judge who had Chito winning against Vera. I don't care what happens in the future, he's among the worst just for that. Same with the guy who had 30-27 Tuivasa when he got dominated by Rozy.
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I would have to check but whoever had Tuivasa winning every round against Rozinstruik is definitely a contender for most shitty judge since it was the opposite.

Edit: Apparently that was Howie Boothe, from New Zealand, I'm sure that's just a coincidence and not favoritism /sarcasm.
 
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he might not even be in the bottom 5, as hard as that is to believe
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They really need to start doing yearly reviews for refs and get rid of the shittiest ones. A lot of jobs have yearly reviews, don't see what would be so hard about doing it for judges.
 
NoBiasJustMMA said:
I seem to remember him constantly getting fights incorrect and being the 1 dissenting judge way more often than most. I have been watching the prelims today and saw him do it again in the fight between Julia Polastri vs Cory McKenna where Julia clearly won rounds 1 and 2 and the fight 29-28 but somehow Sal had the fight for Cory.

Not sure if anyone has stats on split decisions with the minority opinion but I would expect D'amato to be one of the leading judges in this statistic. What do y'all think is there a more consistently bad judges than D'amato in MMA?
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Small Ron McCarthy is currently the worst active judge for any and all events. He is putting out huge amounts of questionable decisions.

The most consistently bad judge is the Texas-only Joe Soliz. I took his entire mmadecisions record and it's somewhere like 60-80% terrible to at least questionable decisions.


Pious Augustus said:
Mike Beltran
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The ref? Did you mean Mike Bell? I mean, he deserves a mention for sure.
 
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Dumbamoto is bad, but not as bad as some.

He'll get fights completely wrong, but then all of a sudden there'll be a clear robbery and he'll be the only one that somehow got it right lol.

I suppose he's consistent in his own way.
 
yossarian1979 said:
If I recall correctly, he was the sole judge to score Matt Hammill over Bisping back in the day, which I thought was very obviously a Hammill victory!
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No. I only know this cuz I joke about the fact that people keep calling that a hometown robbery even though both the judges who scored Bisping the winner were American, and the lone British judge scored it to Matt.

13Seconds said:
There was one judge who had Chito winning against (Sandhagen?). I don't care what happens in the future, he's among the worst just for that.
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Joel Ojeda? Yeah, that was a bad one
 
Mohawk Banditó said:
Small Ron McCarthy is currently the worst active judge for any and all events. He is putting out huge amounts of questionable decisions.

The most consistently bad judge is the Texas-only Joe Soliz. I took his entire mmadecisions record and it's somewhere like 60-80% terrible to at least questionable decisions.



The ref?
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Unfortunately mma decisions seems to be down right now, at least for me.
 
Mohawk Banditó said:
The most consistently bad judge is the Texas-only Joe Soliz. I took his entire mmadecisions record and it's somewhere like 60-80% terrible to at least questionable decisions.
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Just double checked Joe Soliz cuz it irritates me how bad he is.

Between the UFC and Bellator, he's entered scores for 13 decisions, 41 rounds total.
His scores went against fan majority in 10 of those, for 16 rounds total

I mean, fuckin hell

NoBiasJustMMA said:
Unfortunately mma decisions seems to be down right now, at least for me.
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I'm on it as we speak. You on a phone? Sometimes that gets finicky. Try desktop version?
 
Mohawk Banditó said:
Small Ron McCarthy is currently the worst active judge for any and all events. He is putting out huge amounts of questionable decisions.

The most consistently bad judge is the Texas-only Joe Soliz. I took his entire mmadecisions record and it's somewhere like 60-80% terrible to at least questionable decisions.



The ref?
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yes? he judges fights sometimes
 
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