http://www.mmafighting.com/2012/11/1...best-and-worst
Haven't really heard any critism at all regarding the reffing until I read this today.
http://www.mmafighting.com/2012/11/1...best-and-worst
Haven't really heard any critism at all regarding the reffing until I read this today.
The stand up thing is spot on. I dunno why it happens at all... would be much better to have a stalling warning and then if the fighter who has been warned doesn't become active, deduct a point. The current way things are makes it a legit technique for fighters who are outmatched on the floor to just hold on and try nothing. If a fighter is in a dominant position and is stalling then for sure, stand them up, but if a guy is on the bottom and just holding why should they be rewarded with a free escape??
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lol - I love reports like this! Infactual, un-educated and simply wrong. I cannot speak for the other ref's fights as I did not sit and watch them all in full.
For the record I refereed five fights on sat night, the first four all went the distance. Thats 12 whole rounds totalling a full 60 mins [we all saw what happened in the main event!] during that whole time I had a grand total of two stand ups [once each in two seperate fights] - both times for the top position fighter in the first instance for simply holding and the second instance the fight at a stalemate with no advancement in position or significant offence.
I am my own harshest critic and if I make a call that I am not particularly happy with I am the first to say. Working in fights that are watched by millions world wide yet having a handful of tweets and unhappy Sherdoggers is as good statistic as you can get and one that I can live with.
As a referee they say its par for the course, or is it? I even had a tweet Sat night saying that I should die, yes die. All because I stood one fighter up once in 15 full minutes.
God love MMA :-) [and twitter!]
if you think its easy stop now
no one achieved anything by doing nothing
never argue with a fool
if fighting is a pursuit rooted in pain, you will find the best teachers have often absorbed the most punishment themselves......and remained standing
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Someone saying you should die is a little harsh. Like I said in the first post, I hadn't heard anything and I personally didn't see anything during the show, I'll be watching it back so I'll see if even notice it the second time round.
Seriously though, that's sad someone would say that.
Top bloke and top ref.
I only said Die because you still owe me for a curry.
I'm sorry Marc.
To be honest I didn't notice anything, thought the stand-ups when they happened were fair enough as guys weren't active enough
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When I read the article my first thought was the guy was slagging Marc's reffing yet wasn't able to actually raise a specific example of bad reffing. Bad piece of writing that was.
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I haven't watched the event properly, my comment was on stand-ups in general btw.
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Classic example of a guy trying to make his name by just slagging off other people with snide comments on the internet. What a talentless cunt.
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