http://mmajunkie.com/2015/03/reluct...-errors-is-a-problem-but-it-doesnt-have-to-be
The instant referee Eduardo Herdy put his hands onDrew Dober, you could feel trouble in the air.
There was no evident reason to stop the fight, no reason at all for Herdy to be doing what he was doing, and yet once he started doing it, he couldn’t stop. Not without courting a different brand of controversy. Not in MMA.
Herdy made a mistake. That much seems obvious. What’s less clear is what will be done to rectify it, since, historically speaking, this is not a sport that reverses its errors gladly or easily.
The athletic commission for MMA in Brazil – the Comissao Atletica Brasileira de MMA (CABMMA), which oversaw the bout in Rio de Janeiro – has already ruled out the possibility of taking any meaningful action.
This was, as far as the CABMMA is concerned, the “judgment call of a trained and experienced referee,” and there’s no rule that allows them to overturn the result of a fight based on that. End of story....
The instant referee Eduardo Herdy put his hands onDrew Dober, you could feel trouble in the air.
There was no evident reason to stop the fight, no reason at all for Herdy to be doing what he was doing, and yet once he started doing it, he couldn’t stop. Not without courting a different brand of controversy. Not in MMA.
Herdy made a mistake. That much seems obvious. What’s less clear is what will be done to rectify it, since, historically speaking, this is not a sport that reverses its errors gladly or easily.
The athletic commission for MMA in Brazil – the Comissao Atletica Brasileira de MMA (CABMMA), which oversaw the bout in Rio de Janeiro – has already ruled out the possibility of taking any meaningful action.
This was, as far as the CABMMA is concerned, the “judgment call of a trained and experienced referee,” and there’s no rule that allows them to overturn the result of a fight based on that. End of story....