Dana White Sounds Off On Need For Judge And Ref Reform In MMA

[No More Sorrow]

I’ve said it many times, in the evolution of the sport right now, one of the big problems that we have is judging and ref’ing. It’s one of the things that drive me crazy.

Attention needs to be paid to scoring and ref’ing. First of all it affects guys careers as far as legacy’s go. Jon Jones should be undefeated right now but he’s not he has a loss on his record and there are tons of guys in the UFC that have those. There are guys that have absolutely, sincerely won fights but lost them on the judges’ scorecards.

Nobody is perfect, there is always going to be problems but the judging and the ref’ing is so bad in Mixed Martial Arts, it drives me crazy and the fans hate it too. These athletic commissions really need to tighten up and start educating their refs and judges.â€

UFC president Dana White publicly addressed the problem with MMA judging and refereeing last night on FUEL TV.

Kind of agree with him here, especially on some of the refs he has no say in who gets hired the athletic commission hires them and assigns them to the fight and a few have made some absolutely horrible decisions the last few months.

 

[Troy]

That is one thing that really needs to be sorted to ensure that everything about MMA is professional. Maybe they need to run some courses for the refs and judges to help them actually learn the rules that UFC have to ensure that the correct decision is made most of the time.