A pair of ONE Championship fighters just learned that even if if a fight goes to the scorecards, there’s still a way for it to be taken out of the judges’ hands.
Featherweight Sagetdao Petpayathai thought he’d done enough to earn a decision nod over Ma Jia Wen at a ONE show in Yangon, Myanmar last Friday, but the margin of victory was apparently so narrow that officials decided to review the action after the bout was ruled in Petpayathai’s favor.
Vice president of operations Matt Hume (also known as the head coach of UFC champion Demetrious Johnson and ONE champion Bibiano Fernandes) consulted with the judges and they decided to reverse the decision and award the win to Jia Wen.