Some of the loudest critics of MMA judging are the UFC commentators. Just this week, Daniel Cormier and Dominick Cruz offered their opinions, with Cormier stating that judges who are tasked to score UFC fights “keep on making these mistakes.”
The problem with Cormier’s view on this is that he and his cohorts on the UFC commentary desk don’t seem to have a complete grasp on the scoring criteria. That’s not great, considering viewers often take their cues from the commentary team. With that, there is a trickle down effect of wrongness.
What makes things worse is that there have been incidents where the UFC commentators, especially Dominick Cruz, have been proudly, loudly and confidently wrong in informing those who watch and listen to them on UFC broadcasts
What follows are some of the recent instances where the UFC commentators either displayed their ignorance of the MMA scoring criteria or just plain got things wrong.