How many of the judges has a jiu-jitsu background? How many have boxing or wrestling background/experience?

I think the biggest flaw in UFC are the judges. They set the trend of how a fight is scored and all other judges in smaller promotions follow their lead. They have nowhere else to look. I think I said it before. We need fighters as refs. Say what you want about Chuck and Tito and the old timers, but I am sure that they would judge a fight much better then the usual suspects we are forced to see give fantasy scores to fighters that doesnt do any damage. There are just too many examples of fights ending 2 judges scroing the fight 27-30 and the third 30-27 just like they watched different fights. Whats up with that? No IMO get some real fighters that have years and years of experience INSIDE the ring.


And yeah UFC 121 would have been much less cool if 'my guys' all lost! No doubt I agree on that.

Would you let a guy that never played football in his life ref a football match? Thats what happening every event in UFC. Guys that never had an MMA fight are judging the fighters performance. Really idiotic if you ask me. The argument that they have experience in boxing etc is as far fetched as saying that 'well the football ref never played football, but hes really good at rugby!'.

I guess that getting fighters to prioritize judging before training other fighters etc is an economical question. If you pay a fighter enough he will probably be happy to do the work as a judge. I have no idea what they make though. More then me Im sure lol.

PS: @ Pepaseed - lol @ Brock smacking the cop out of the way during his entrance hahaha