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Hi Sherdoggers,
I'm not in a habit of starting threads, but the latest UFC event, the controversial decisions to be exact, made me ask myself a question:
Is there a system of how the judges score?
As far as I know, there is no precise point system of how they score whatever happen in the octagon. For example if a fighter punches in the face or the body, is it scores the same?
MMA isn't boxing and there are a lot of elements into it, and we all know that it is difficult to judge, but I think that if they will unify a system (I'm not talking about the global scoring of 10 must system - which is not that obvious as well), which will give each element as submission, takedown, knockdown, ground-control time various strikes a point system, the decisions will be much less controversial.
We live in 21st century, and it is possible to provide judges an application that will score the points, and all the judges will need is click on the right element. The judges won't even score it, as the app will, and that will prevent a bias judging.
We will definitely see less split and controversial decisions that way.
What do you think?
I'm not in a habit of starting threads, but the latest UFC event, the controversial decisions to be exact, made me ask myself a question:
Is there a system of how the judges score?
As far as I know, there is no precise point system of how they score whatever happen in the octagon. For example if a fighter punches in the face or the body, is it scores the same?
MMA isn't boxing and there are a lot of elements into it, and we all know that it is difficult to judge, but I think that if they will unify a system (I'm not talking about the global scoring of 10 must system - which is not that obvious as well), which will give each element as submission, takedown, knockdown, ground-control time various strikes a point system, the decisions will be much less controversial.
We live in 21st century, and it is possible to provide judges an application that will score the points, and all the judges will need is click on the right element. The judges won't even score it, as the app will, and that will prevent a bias judging.
We will definitely see less split and controversial decisions that way.
What do you think?
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