"Shertard" got robbed

A point for one grab with no warning? Conor vs Khabib with this ref would have had a 10-2 round.

Dude smells like cigs and booze.

 

I'd like to be on whatever drugs you are tonight...

 

That was good refereeing. That fence grab prevented a takedown.

 

I wish the refs would take this same approach with the eye pokes TBH...

 

A point though? We've seen worse in past fights. Would have been better to reset the fight awarding Montana top position. Even that seems generous.

 

I'm not sure about that one. An eye poke or nut shot doesn't have to be on purpose. Grabbing the cage is always on purpose.

 

Eye pokes were undefeated for years

 

I agree to the extent of whether or not the offender has a history of using eye pokes as a tool for keeping distance

 

I don't know, I'm not sure if you want to take into account in a fight whatever a fighter did in previous fights. The UFC should change their gloves, in 10 years of Pride there were maybe 5 eye pokes in total.

 

It's against the rules so technically do they even have to give warnings? And if it stopped a takedown then it sounds warranted. I didn't really watch the fight though so I'm not 100% sure how impactful the grab was.

 

100% in agreement with this, I don’t understand why Dana is so openly against redesigning the gloves, it should be a no brainer to protect the UFC’s investment in the fighters.

 

Trevor Whitman's ONX gloves would be great for this but he said that the UFC wanted to own the rights to it. It's probably a money thing

 

It's all so arbitrary. And we've seen so many precedents to the contrary.

 

The victims of a robbery are everyone whose TD got stabbed by a fence grab and the ref did nothing.

 

Personally I'd make this the rule:

If a fence grab avoids a takedown, take a point

Don't take a point on the first eye poke or nut shot. Take a point on each second offense

 

yall actually watched that fight? lol

 

Just reset and award the takedown then. I could see fighters not liking that too, but much better than a point.

 

Feel like eye pokes and nut shots are way worse than a semi stuffed takedown.

 

I think it depends on the severity of it. It was blatant and stopped a takedown. Sometimes ref's miss stuff that we can heck, it may change the outcome of a fight, but I think the ref got it right.

 

Fence grabs that prevent takedowns should cost you a point with no warnings, more refs should follow his example