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wisewords When: 01 Jun 18 19:53

hometown fighters losing isn't as big of a deal as made out to be

I agree, but unbeaten ones with big hype surrounding them, different rules apply.

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razz When: 02 Jun 18 23:08

Jun 1, 2018 -- 7:41PM, wisewords wrote:

I acknowledged that they often get favorable decisions. I'm saying the UFC have no control over the judges.remarkable how often the home fighter gets the decision, which is good for the UFC. I think you need to think about this a bit more. UFC definitely have influence over the judges, albeit indirectly.

how so? from the crowd where they host the event? that's pretty indirect lol. but they can't directly influence the judges, they would be banned from the state if found out, it wouldn't make business sense.

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razz When: 02 Jun 18 23:14

yeah I think he was like 1.9 before the knockdown also, good value in hindsight. I don't have blinkers on when it comes to betting lol, i make enough profit on mma as it is, personally though i would just like to see fights be scored more objectively and with more judges who are trained much better. I still don't think till is that much of a superstar outside of liverpool tbh. I think he could struggle if he moves up to MW which it looks like he might have to earlier in his career than he wants to. I doubt he can make 170 more than a couple more times. and with gastelum, romero, whittaker, adesanya, costa, weidman, jacare and the like he would have a tough time getting to the title without maybe getting the WW title first.

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wisewords When: 02 Jun 18 23:23

Jun 2, 2018 -- 11:08PM, razz wrote:

Jun 1, 2018 -- 7:41PM, wisewords wrote:I acknowledged that they often get favorable decisions. I'm saying the UFC have no control over the judges.remarkable how often the home fighter gets the decision, which is good for the UFC. I think you need to think about this a bit more. UFC definitely have influence over the judges, albeit indirectly.how so? from the crowd where they host the event? that's pretty indirect lol. but they can't directly influence the judges, they would be banned from the state if found out, it wouldn't make business sense.

these dodgy decisions seem to happen on international cards alot. no idea where the judges came from for the event in Liverpool. I think the judges are instructed that if it's a close fight this is who they should favour.

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razz When: 05 Jun 18 00:50

they happen everywhere though, a lot of the judges travel internationally too. and there's zero evidence that judges are instructed by anyone to favor the hometown guy, they are more than capable of ****g up and being biassed toward the crowd as it is without the giant risk of instructing them to judge a certain way. it would of been leaked by at this point. some judges are actually good and are former fighters and ref's, and have many years experience training mma, someone would of found out by now if that happened.