Judging is subjective and judges are corrupt morons, so we will never 'fix' judging. But judging at the very lest should serve the purpose of rewarding people for fighting how we want them to fight. We should not reward guys for running away.
The MMA judging criteria was changed to basically assert 'damage is king'. They simplified the rules in an effort to get judges to stop being completely subjective in what they score, and to an extent it was a wise move. But they went too far.
The problem is, this system allows for guys to run away, barely hurt their opponent and still win. This should not be the case. You should be allowed to counterstrike and win, but it should be premised on you landing substantially - not just 'barely' - more damage to compensate for the fact that the other fighter took more risks and allowed for an actual fight to take place.
I genuinely blame Floyd Mayweather for this cultural shift. In order to sell Floyd PPVs, an entire generation was turned into retarded hipsters who thought they were smart for paying 70 bucks to watch a 'defensive genius' win socrecards while never hurting his opponent in terrible fights. That has spilled over into MMA.
We should judge fights more like how the 'Just Bleed' guy would judge fights, because it makes for better fights.
The MMA judging criteria was changed to basically assert 'damage is king'. They simplified the rules in an effort to get judges to stop being completely subjective in what they score, and to an extent it was a wise move. But they went too far.
The problem is, this system allows for guys to run away, barely hurt their opponent and still win. This should not be the case. You should be allowed to counterstrike and win, but it should be premised on you landing substantially - not just 'barely' - more damage to compensate for the fact that the other fighter took more risks and allowed for an actual fight to take place.
I genuinely blame Floyd Mayweather for this cultural shift. In order to sell Floyd PPVs, an entire generation was turned into retarded hipsters who thought they were smart for paying 70 bucks to watch a 'defensive genius' win socrecards while never hurting his opponent in terrible fights. That has spilled over into MMA.
We should judge fights more like how the 'Just Bleed' guy would judge fights, because it makes for better fights.