MMA Fighting · Jan 6, 2020
Keeping score: Did MMA judges get it right in 2019?
Esther Lin, MMA FightingAccording to longtime UFC commentator Joe Rogan, MMA judging is as bad as it’s ever been. Several prominent regulators disagree.
When John McCarthy, one of the most experienced and respected officials in MMA, took a job as a commentator for Bellator, he thought you couldn’t call a fight and judge it at the same time. Doing one was hard enough; two was asking for mistakes.
Then his new employer asked him to do exactly that.
”You’re not giving the exact amount of concentration on the fight as the judge, and you could be wrong and not see something, because you’re talking or trying to point out something that’s occurring,” he told MMA Fighting.