Comments on: (UFC 106) A question or two about the Nevada State Athletic Commission

By: theYiffer

theYiffer — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:04:31 +0000

I’ll have to back Huddle on this one. Until someone with a high-profile does die in the octagon, this is a non-issue.

It’s nice to think that commissions are there to look out for fighters and to keep promoters honest and straight, but they’re not. For Zuffa and other MMA promoters, commissions exist to give them “legitimacy”. Remember the accusation of “human cock-fighting”? The commissions exist to provide bureaucrats an addition to their resumes, and to ensure that they always take their cut.

At this point in that game, we’re all lucky that these government bureaucracies even function as well as they do.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:57:48 +0000

Eh, if he cracks and ends up in the nuthouse there’s 3 other posters here to take his spot.

How ’bout that wonderful 400,000 viewer rating WEC got. Surely this is a key to getting UFC on NBC.

By: Ivan Trembow

Ivan Trembow — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:45:08 +0000

I don’t think it’s hilarious. I think it has been ruining my enjoyment of the site for a long time, and that’s a shame because it’s otherwise a great site.

By: Zack

Zack — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:58:04 +0000

45 Huddle is starting to lose his mind and it’s hilarious.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:58:03 +0000

This flaming that you are doing 45 Huddle is even worse than you normally do.

I cannot believe the things that you are saying now.

By: The Gaijin

The Gaijin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:05:35 +0000

With corruption, political glad handing and favours being the norm for bureaucratic institutions like those, we’ll probably never see change without some serious pressure from a cash-cow like the UFC that keeps their coffers full. These judges are friends of commission members or there for a favour to someone or something and they enjoy their cushy little corner in these worlds – they’re not going to voluntarily give them up or put any effort into improving, because judging for some of these clowns is just an ancilliary annoyance to their position.

In a perfect world, they’d threaten to stay away from certain states that are so pathetic until they straighten up their act, but when Cali and NV are local and friendly confines that’s a tough threat to pull off.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:34:18 +0000

UFC doesn’t need to have a school opened. What they need is for commissions to appoint more judges with martial arts backgrounds. There are a ton of former fighters who would love the pay day to fly to Vegas a few times a month to score fights. I could see using boxing judges when MMA was still a cult-following sport, but it’s drawing more money than boxing does for commissions so it is time they at least acknowledge it’s completely different from boxing.

But of course in a bureaucracy it takes years to sign off on getting a copier fixed so who knows when that would actually happen.

By: The Gaijin

The Gaijin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:09:15 +0000

Yes – having something not pay immediate dividends is useless and should never be looked into. They should never try to fix something that can’t be done right away and just “live with it” because 2 or 3 years will never come. Such an insightful comment.

By: 45 Huddle

45 Huddle — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:28:12 +0000

Only you care what Dana White says on this topic. I’ve read what he has said, and it is kind of pointless. Just like Rogan complaining about the judging criteria.

They both complain without a real solution to it. If either of them logicially looked at the situation, there isn’t much they can do to change anything over the next year.

Every suggestion for judging criteria would either turn it into point fighting and be so abstract that it is impossible to follow.

And the UFC could start a school for refs and judges…. But then there is that whole conflict of interest thing (even if once those guys graduate they are not paid by the UFC). But even if they started that tomorrow, it wouldn’t pay dividends for another 2 to 3 years.

What White says is nice, but unless he gives an alternative solution…. His complaints on this topic are about as useless as every single one of your posts….

By: The Gaijin

The Gaijin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:17:30 +0000

Maybe you should go check out Dana’s thoughts on the judging situation re the athletic commissions. I’ll be chuckling when you pull the 180 now that Zuffa is even acknowledging how embarrassing it is and how they’re working to help make the necessary changes.

But oh my – they can’t train and bring in NEW judges – they’re even WORSE than the shitty ones that no one is doing things about!!