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I have a difficult time siting through Rogan's podcasts. I think I actually find him more tolerable when he's yelling.
All bouts will be evaluated and scored by 3 judges who shall evaluate the contest from different location around the ring/fighting area. The referee may not be one of the 3 judges.
The 10-Point Must System will be the standard system of scoring a bout. Under the 10-Point Must Scoring System, 10 points must be awarded to the winner of the round and 9 points or less must be awarded to the loser, except for a rare even round, which is scored (10-10).
Judges shall evaluate mixed martial arts techniques, such as effective striking, effective grappling, control of the ring/fighting area, effective aggressiveness and defense.
Evaluations shall be made in the order in which the techniques appear in (c) above, giving the most weight in scoring to effective striking, effective grappling, control of the fighting area and effective aggressiveness and defense.
Effective striking is judged by determining the total number of legal strikes landed by a contestant.
Effective grappling is judged by considering the amount of successful executions of a legal takedown and reversals. Examples of factors to consider are take downs from standing position to mount position, passing the guard to mount position, and bottom position fighters using an active threatening guard.
Fighting area control is judged by determining who is dictating the pace, location and position of the bout. Examples of factors to consider are countering a grappler's attempt at takedown by remaining standing and legally striking, taking down an opponent to force a ground fight, creating threatening submission attempts, passing the guard to achieve mount, and creating striking opportunities.
Effective aggressiveness means moving forward and landing a legal strike.
Effective defense means avoiding being struck, taken down or reversed while countering with offensive attacks.
The following objective scoring criteria shall be utilized by the judges when scoring a round:
a round is to be scored as a 10-10 round when both contestants appear to be fighting evenly and neither contestant shows clear dominance in a round;
a round is to be scored as a 10-9 round when a contestant wins by a close margin, landing the greater number of effective legal strikes, grappling and other maneuvers;
a round is to be scored as a 10-8 round when a contestant overwhelmingly dominates by striking or grappling in a round.
a round is to be scored as a 10-7 round when a contestant totally dominates by striking or grappling in a round.
Judges shall use a sliding scale and recognize the length of time the fighters are either standing or on the ground, as follows:
if the mixed martial artists spent a majority of a round on the canvas, then:
Effective grappling is weighed first; and
Effective striking is then weighed
If the mixed martial artists spent a majority of a round standing, then:
Effective striking is weighed first; and
Effective grappling is then weighed
A round is to be scored as a 10-8 round when a contestant overwhelmingly dominates by striking or grappling in a round.
If a round ends with a relatively even amount of standing and canvas fighting, striking and grappling are weighed equally.
People have also seemed to forget that BJ Penn made the same "look at his face and look at mine" argument when GSP beat him the first time. It's irrelevant. And GSP seems to be prone to getting bruised up in a fight.
MMA fans as a whole are a pretty stupid lot, so arguing with them is pointless.
Not sure if anyone caught UFC Tonight on FS1 tonight.
Hey, I said I thought Hendricks won a close fight, I didn't say robbery, and that was before I went online. Don't lump me in with the crazy people. And I can totally see how my impression was due to some general impression thing based on how I perceived Hendricks to more solidly take his two rounds than GSP took any of his--which is not how these things are actually scored, anyway.
Speaking of crazy people, I watched the Rogan podcast with GSP (or most of it, til the YouTube app died and refused to play any more--oddly enough, the only videos it error messages on were Rogan podcasts. So maybe it had just had enough pseudo-intellectual pothead philosophizing for one day). I have no idea what he said on opie & Anthony, but unless it was "back in the beginning of the year, GSP said he was afraid of some things, feels like he's losing chunks of time, and I tried to get him to say he was being abducted by aliens," not sure what else he could have said. Besides, the dude believes in Sasquatch--no room to talk shit. Not to border on all pleba-like or anything, but I find any stories GSP is telling where there are slight imitations of the people in them to be quite entertaining and ridiculously endearing.