Herb Dean is currently in Seoul, South Korea and is tasked to be the head official for Road FC. Apart from a slightly different rule set for the fights, the Asian promotion has also been using an “unlimited points” scoring that has veered away from the traditional 10-point must system used in the unified rules.
In Road FC, fighters get specific points for damaging blows, clear takedowns, dominant positions, near submissions, and the like. The total scores will then be used to decide a winner at the end of the fight.
Dean, who is one of the most highly regarded referees in the sport, spoke about the system potentially having a solution to some of the common problems we see in MMA judging.