Longtime UFC commentator Joe Rogan is in favor of having more than three judges to score fights. I think that it is an interesting idea. What are your thoughts?
Definitely. 9 judges should score the fight from a bench that is not live at the event, with no commentary or crowd noise to influence anything. They should be appointed for life and should not be removable for cause.
Yes, lets add MORE incompetent people who don't understand the criteria, let alone the positions and movements to this equation so we can get more terrible results. Truly riveting.
Incompetence is still incompetence no matter if there's 3, 5, 7, 9 or whatever the number is. Maybe 5 judges could work better if you employ a high-low elimination type of judging each round then that way they could reach a general consensus in most cases. But shit judges are still shit no matter what procedure is used.
I haven't really thought it through but 5 judges would be best I think - it would eliminate more draws/split decisions I think and when you get 4 to 1 decisions, you get a real idea of how competent that one judge (thus, they should be questioned and have to reason why they scored it the way they did).
Definitely. 9 judges should score the fight from a bench that is not live at the event, with no commentary or crowd noise to influence anything. They should be appointed for life and should not be removable for cause.
His idea of the gaining points seemed completely insane. Judges can barely tell who won a round. But he wants them to judge how effective techniques are on the fly? Or to even assign a point value to a punch seems crazy. It would be impossibly complex. But adding two more judges might help.
I think they should keep it as is, but give more 10 8 rounds. Also I personally believe the last round should be worth more than the first two. In any real fight your not judged by the opening engagement, youre judged on who victorious at the end. I get it's a sport so it can't all be based on the last round, but I feel it should be weighed a bit more heavily.
more judges would make it worse and more confusing and also more susceptible to having incompetent judges in the lineup not saying it's good now but I don't see that working out well.
If they could somehow entice ex fighters into doing it it would probably help. Though so many of them probably have trained with certain teams/fighters or know them, you'd have to question their impartiality.
Maybe get the refs while they're sitting idle watching the fights. I'm sure they're scoring the fights in their heads and are more qualified than some of the current judges.
3 judges in separate rooms watching on monitors I would like. I wouldn't be opposed to 5 judges either, but I'm not totally sold on it though. Personally, I like the scoring system. Just not some of the judges.
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