Daniel Cormier
Former heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier was disgusted with judges at UFC 262
The UFC 262 main even was wild. The first round saw both the fighters have their fair share of moments. But after a particular point, it was Chandler who began dominating, with his explosive power.
Although Oliveira had significant ground control in the first round, it has been learnt that two of the judges’ scored 10-8 in favour of Michael Chandler.
A 10-8 is awarded only when there is a bad beating received by the opponent. There wasn’t any such instance in the first round.
Former UFC heavyweight champion and current commentator Daniel Cormier discussed this in the recent episode of DC & Helwani MMA Show. Cormier was absolutely mad at the judges for awarding Chandler a 10-8 in the first round.
DC explained that he had no clue how a 10-7 round would look if this was a 10-8, before going on to compare a real 10-8 round, featuring Glover Teixeira and Anthony Smith.
“Michael Chandler won that round, but when Charles Oliveira gets you down, takes your back, does good things in the round; how in the world are you scoring that 10-8 as a judge?…If that is a 10-8 round, what is worse? What do you have to do in order to go 10-7?
DC then brought up the Glover Teixeira vs Anthony Smith fight in May, last year:
“If you recall when Glover Teixeira beat Anthony Smith, when Teixeira busted his tooth out of his mouth, that was a 10-8 round. How in the world can you judge these two rounds the same, when one was an absolute beating while the other was a competitive round.”
Cormier took to Twitter to tear into the judges for being clueless. He was not happy with the way they scored Viviane Araujo vs Katlyn Chookagian as well.
Cormier felt that Araujo should have won the round where she attempted a submission and had significant ground control against Chookagian. DC stressed the lack of importance of ground control.
DC tweeted:
“This is absolutely insane, while chandler did win the round Charles had the back and landed some shots. The judging last night was bad, there seems to be no value in ground control anymore. Vivian got to the mount and controlled, attempted sub and still lost the round.”
It is high time the judges began realizing the importance of ground-control.
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