Sal D'Amato - > Why is this guy still judging

It feels like, if you look back at decisions that you felt was way off and look it up via MMA decisions, chances are very good Sal D'Amato was one of the judges. Some recent fights:

http://www.mmadecisions.com/decision/11044/Dan-Ige-vs-Edson-Barboza
http://www.mmadecisions.com/decision/11034/Ben-Rothwell-vs-Ovince-Saint-Preux
http://www.mmadecisions.com/decision/11469/Thiago-Moises-vs-Bobby-Green
http://www.mmadecisions.com/decision/11521/Cory-McKenna-vs-Kay-Hansen
http://www.mmadecisions.com/decision/9876/Blagoy-Ivanov-vs-Ben-Rothwell
http://www.mmadecisions.com/decision/9127/Mirsad-Bektic-vs-Ricardo-Lamas

This guy has been bad for a very very long time. But this guy judged the highest number of fights in 2020. (http://www.mmadecisions.com/blog/124/The-Busiest-UFC-Judges-of-2020)

Why?

 

And yes this guy was the guy who robbed Vieira blind recently. There were too many just bleed stupids who were defending this guy though *puke*

 

Guess who was the judge for Bj-Edgar 1?

http://www.mmadecisions.com/decision/1468/Frankie-Edgar-vs-B.J.-Penn

 

Try this exercise, think of a robbery, and see if Sal D'Amato was the judge.

 

She lost that fight bud...let it go

 

Who was the judge for Rampage vs Machida?

http://www.mmadecisions.com/decision/2030/Quinton-Jackson-vs-Lyoto-Machida

 

Or for Davis vs Machida?

http://www.mmadecisions.com/decision/4380/Phil-Davis-vs-Lyoto-Machida

 

People like you and Sal D'Amato ruins this sport and many peoples' careers, sickening

 

Who was the judge for GSP vs Hendricks? I wonder

http://www.mmadecisions.com/decision/4707/Georges-St-Pierre-vs-Johny-Hendricks

 

What about Chris Lee who scored the fight for Felder (against RDA)

 

Name is just once but posted 4 times in a row

 

Sal stole TS' anime collection.

 

no but good one.

 

The issue is for a judge's decision to matter, there's always one other judge who had to agree with them.

The only exception is a split draw where none of the judges agreed. It's just hard to say one judge was clearly wrong when 2 out of 3 thought that way.

 

What a brain dead logic right here. If you make a wrong decision, then it's on you.
Just cuz there might be one other guy who fucked up, doesn't absolve you of the wrongdoing, nor does it give you pass to fuck up and fuck peoples' careers when one loss could be bye bye.

Whether your college fucks up on his job doesn't have any bearing on whether it's okay to fuck up on yours.

 

someone should compare these fights in a chronological timeline of Sal's bank statements, vehicle/property purchases and luxury vacations



not me though. definitely someone else

 

He is terrible, but so are many others. For any of those robberies there has to be at least another judge that does the same. Shogun vs Machida 1, Felder vs Barboza, Jacare vs Romero, Jones vs Reyes, all fucked up results without Sal. He should be dumped, but the whole system is broken anyway and that's the main problem. The good thing is that at least it's not at the level of boxing where it's just transparently corrupt.

 

Why is Adelaide Byrde still a judge? These are questions for the wind and time.

 

Based on examples in OP, seems like Derek Cleary is pretty bad too

 

Look I'm not saying it can't be done, but it's always an uphill climb when you're arguing against what 2 out of 3 or even all 3 judges thought. That's why you've gotta do something like show that 18 out of 20 MMA journalists thought they got it wrong.

As it is I've never heard anything about how the commission reviews or evaluates the judges' performance. And the commissioners have an uphill climb because they probably know less about judging than the professional judges who work for them.