SALT LAKE CITY – On an evening on which judging left many viewers scratching their heads, Dana White was proper there with them.
Following UFC 307 on Saturday in Salt Lake Metropolis, White admitted he was not a fan of a number of the scorecards turned in.
“The judging tonight was atrocious,” White advised MMA Junkie and different reporters after the occasion at Delta Middle. “I felt like I used to be at a boxing match in Eire tonight.”
The judging wasn’t the one regulatory subject that entered the general public discourse throughout Saturday’s fights. Whereas White mentioned he missed the highly-criticized officiating by native referee Dave Seljestad, he added that UFC senior vice chairman of regulatory affairs Marc Ratner indicated his displeasure at actions taken throughout the struggle between Cesar Almeida and Ihor Potieria.
The primary card bout between Mario Bautista and Jose Aldo additionally grew to become a sizzling subject. Aldo was repeatedly smothered by Bautista towards the fence, which prompted his former rival Conor McGregor to develop into irate on social media.
McGregor took exception with the concept of stalling and proposed {that a} clock be put in to restrict the quantity of inactivity that might happen earlier than a separation.
White agreed that protocols ought to be adjusted to advertise extra motion, although doesn’t suppose a clock is critical.
“I at all times suppose that the referees ought to be extra energetic on that, 100%, particularly when any individual retains doing it to stall. You guys aren’t going to f*cking let up on this, are you? I suppose we’ll get into it. When you’re judging a man on management or this or that, should you’re not making an attempt to struggle, how do you win the struggle? When you’re taking a look at tried takedowns, then what about stuffing the takedowns. Simply insanity.”
“… When you possibly can inform that the man undoubtedly doesn’t need to stand and strike and simply desires to stall towards the fence, sure, the refs, that’s their job. Once they see it regularly occurring and that the man shouldn’t be making an attempt to win the struggle, you then preserve breaking them up.”
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