UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Strickland

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

Also can someone please fire Sal D'Amato?

Judging in MMA has been atrocious for a long time now and its obvious that the 3 judges who are ringside have no idea what they are doing 90% of the time.

But this fool takes the cake. He is an absolute turd in a field of stinkers.

The day he and Chris Lee are gone it will be a happy day for all true MMA fans.

Lol thats a good one. Should have thought of that.

If Adalaide Byrd needs to go in the dumpster also.

Didn't Dana already put her in the trash? 

I hope I am right about that or that she-clown will be back messing up results and lives again soon.

Why is it that the fighters careers and our bets have to depend on 3 ******s who are either completely corrupt or have absolutely zero understanding of what they are judging? I favour the corrupt angle because they are literally the only people on earth scoring it the way they do. It cannot be coincidence.

How can this seriously be the status quo in a so called professional sport?

It happens every week and nothing gets done about it. I was hoping Sam Alvey would get a split decision loss again and he might put one of them in a coma. But unfortunately he did not see a decision.

I think a big part of it is that they're Boxing judges.

They don't know **** about MMA.

Some of those guys made absolutely no sense to cut. Like Edmen, he should get a step down not get cut(Ferreira and Moraes too).

I think Sal D'Mato scorecare might be  the worst scorecard I ever seen in the time I watch MMA (6+years), I usually try and see how the judges score it, They no way you can score it for Hermanson, Even if I try and be really bias to Hermanson, You could only give him 2 rounds, And those 2 round if you overscore the leg kicks and body kick , I think it impossable to give the 2-4-5 to Hermanson, Sal D'Mato is a corupt judge and should be fired, Even the most ******** scorer, would of gave Strickland at least 3 rounds

Honesly the fight was a 50-46 score, With the first round being a 10-10 , But no one score the fight 10-10, So either 50-45 or 49-46 being good score card, 

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Edmen got cut??

Poor kid showed a bit of promise and immediately got thrown to the wolves. 

Source?

He’s not cut lol

Yea i was looking it up, and found nothing 

I just looked at the page before.
Yea thats his list of guys he wants cut from ufc

I think D'amato broke a record. I can't think of another example of the entire  MMA media scoring exactly the opposite way to a Judge. There's always one or two ******s from that crowd who misjudge a fight and back some judge's terrible verdict, but on this occasion not a single Media contributor's score aligned with D'amato's.

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Had it 5-0, you could only give Jack the first. Sal should be banned

Almost as bad as the dude who gave Edgar 50-45 over bj penn

Big Sal still has SPLIT on his mind after lil Monster the Stripper turned UFC Fighter busted out 3 that weekend and he's just going to do all possible to put that SPLIT, in his head, in all seriousness us, MMA Fans are more often than not pretty spot on with the Verdict judging, Big John recently stated, or heard that possibly there are commissions who are watching certain people who have been scoring Fights at a good percentage and potentially select a number to go to a judging conference and actually do Amateur Fights, and some will be hired, UFC 247, I believe is currently under serious investigation, after it was discovered that Rounds 1& 2 were scored pre Fight, and by a computer, I don't understand how they continue to frequent Texas when that specific Commission is possibly in some deep swizzle, I saw the card last night and there is a method to the way they score Title Fights, but a Judge must turn in scored Rounds after the Rd is done, yet, I believe it was Reyes v.s Jones or Santos v.s Jones, but Jones is a Championship Round Fighter and I have seen 2/3 Santos, Gus 1, and Reyes and in certain States/Countries, it doesn't take much to see how they are doing it, they refer to Judge 3 as ascending Judge and the card he has is always 28-29/3 for the Challenger and 1 and 2, 29-28 for the Defending Champion, just look, and they have several cards, and typed,? If a finish is to happen in Rd 2, how are they typed in? Just curious if anyone else has saw this pattern and heard about the issues with Texas and Toronto??

Take a look at UFC 167, 247, and Reyes v.s Jones or if that was 247, then look at the inquiries on Santos v.s Jones, Hendricks v.s GSP, and UFC 167 early Pre-Lims, they busted a Judge and initially thought that he sucked, but more than 100 PPV's later and they are investigating it, as well as several other Fox Fight Night Fights, interested in seeing if the so called Experts, a word that should not be in the Dictionary because if you are an Expert, you are perfect, but I am no Judge and I picked it up after watching UFC 167, 1time, Hendricks definitely won 1,2 and 4, and I actually gave him 1,2,4, and 5, but he was only winning if he finished GSP, look at the Official Scorecards.

Bro it is pretty obvious that there is corruption going on and has been going on for a while.

The commissions appoint the judges and the referees and there has been some pretty fishy refereeing as well as God awful judging. This absolutely cannot be just errors as the degree of variance between these crooked judges and everybody else is consistently so different.

The commissions make money from the events in their state and I am certain they make money from the casinos and books. How many times have you seen a very heavy favourite (who is parlayed heavily) lose a really bad decision and crash everyones parlays? This is why the books always win, not because they are particularly good but because they are particularly corrupt. And its the same judges day in day out doing their best to fix fights. It's beyond a joke now. And even worse in lower promotions like Bellator and PFL where they have less clout than the UFC. 

Dana knows what's up, why do you think he keeps telling fighters not to leave it to the judges and if they want a win to go for the finish?

The commissions will do nothing about it because they will be getting all the kick backs. So don't expect anything to change. Boxing has been rotten for years, nothing has changed. Why would it in MMA?

The saddest thing about all this is how it affects fighters and their families who are already underpaid horribly.

I mean, I might lose some money on some bets, but I can afford that. I make bets for fun more than anything and even losing badly on a card won't affect me at all.

But think about a fighter who will get cut after 2 or 3 losses and is not Sam Alvey. They spend their whole career training and dedicating themselves to fighting, reach the equivalent of the NFL and get paid Sh*t for their fights, then get robbed by these criminal judges and referees and then they get cut. Most have children and families who depend on them and many end up with injuries and CTE as an added bonus.

One example I can think of recently is Kai Kamaka, cut after he won a fight against TJ Brown. Luckily he is now at Bellator and probably earning more than he would have at the UFC. Disgraceful on all sides.

These fools are affecting peoples lives and families and something really really needs to be done about this. But it wont be, you can be sure of that.

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I am sure that all MMA fans know these names very well, but lets just name and shame some.

Chris Lee (one of the worst), Sal D'Amato (possibly the worst?), Eric Colon (named appropriately) Rob McCarthy (bet he is related to John) are all awful. In fact almost all MMA judges have been awful so far.

I think Adelaide Byrd was so bad that Dana has actually got her out. Though I may be wrong.

This is worth a read I guess, though the article states their pay is not good and their job is hard. Complete bollocks. Their job is not hard and they are getting paid thousands almost every week to do a Sh*t job with no accountability.

https://wayofmartialarts.com/ufc-judges/

* Edited at 02.06.2022, 8:18 AM ET *