Instant dismissal for terrible judging! Yes or no?
Whatever you wanna think about the UFC’s frontman Dana White and the nature of blood sport with its ring girls and that ballbearing wiggle of their honey dews between rounds, he’s a straight-shooter.
And, so, yesterday, after one of his three judges made an error so egregious it couldn’t be ignored, the call came in and the judge was sacked mid-card, a decision MMA fans hailed as “landmark.”
A couple of typical responses on Facebook.
This is incredible and such a landmark moment for holding these terrible judges responsible for their actions. I have been saying for years that judges with these kind of atrocious scorecards should be escorted out of the building and it finally happened The company needs to keep this up. That is one of the worst score cards in MMA history.
MMA will now be absolutely changed. I felt relieved seeing him relieved of his duties. Abysmal judging.
Howie Booth was one of three judges at UFC305 hitting the score cards for the heavyweight bout between Australian Tai “Bam Bam” Tuivasa and Surinamese fighter Jairzinho Rozenstruik.
Jairzinho Rozenstruik beat hell out of Bam Bam for three rounds but when it came down to read the score cards, turned out ol Howie gave every round to Bam Bam. The other two judges were the mirror opposite, all three rounds to Rozenstruik, making it a split-decision.
Wild judging decisions have long been a hallmark of the UFC, less so in WSL events although it does happen.
And, so, to bite off the particular cancer tough decisions gotta be made. Mid-card, zero minutes notice, judge sacked.
Which leads to surfing, the WSL and Finals Day which runs real soon, September six through fourteen, whenever waves are good or good-ish, this is Southern California after all.
Should judges be ripped out of their seats mid-event if they’re not punching the right buttons, and not just ’cause they had a photo taken with a competitor?
Elo was disappeared overnight, could not the same levers be pulled?
And what would that mean for the Brazilian surf fan army? Neutralised or emboldened?
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The judging has made the WSL basically unwatchable. I am over it completely the current system is so awful I’m pretty sure the whole system has failsafe unfair wrong call rigging in place every contest the whole thing stinks the surfers are ripping but the judges get it wrong way too often for how much b.s. everybody goes through
Have any wOsl judges been photographed being friendly to wOsl surfers lately ?
Does the wOsl follow a firm apartheid-like segregation policy to stop any potential Olympic style judge/competitor fraternisation before it happens ?
Or do they all regularly attend the same boozy soirees of the kind that ELo used to enjoy ?
After watching some recent footage of Florence at Trestles I have come to the conclusion he will most likely get Carissa’d in the Finals.
Finals day is a dumb idea and the points should be cumulative. If John loses and retires, what have we gained other than injustice
*When
Let’s get ex head judge Perry Hatchet’s take on this !!
Finals day looms large for the WSL . You’ve heard it 1st on BG
Seriously , they’re pulling the plug after this
Did you really mean to downvote your own comment?
Awesome work. Humility that Jesus would be proud of.
I think I might start following your example.
Solidarity, brother. Downvotes the new upvote!
I’ll answer here so’s not to break the sequence. It’s about judgement. Being judged…but I can’t articulate it properly because I’m a fuckhead .
No one cares , it’s all about Olympic gold now , the games changed open your eyes to the bigger picture.
I think your right.
the wsl championship is really just a way to qualify for a Olympics spot to represent your country.
Ziff dream of selling the wsl just went to unsellable
downvoted yourself?
Let’s hope they toss finals day out like ELo
If the wsl judges go off script the head judge will fix it up b4 the score are shown
Goes back a long way dude.
That’s the problem, no point having a panel of judges when the head judge telling everyone the score needs to be….
Thats what im insinuating AI, the head judges can have too much control of the outcome
I would like to see
A bloody Mid Season Cut
Of all the judges
That is actually a great idea.
a new judging panel for each new ocean surfed!
the full-time judges are going hate it but it makes it more interesting for the punter and stops the obvious bias towards travel buddies.
and besides,the judges should fuck off and get a real job!
There should be a judges Challenger Series
among your finest. Laureate level stuff
“UFC” …unidentified flying cunt!
all judges that judge “subjective” sport, should be people that know absolutely nothing abut the sport or athlete.
“that was an amazing kickout. I’ll give him a ten”
Im gonna take your sarcasm seriously. You make a serious point. Its a spectators show, so surfers should give the great non endemic audience what they want, the most daring, stupidly show off stuff , ridiculous airdrops, ragdolled in the barrel, triple flip flyouts, and judge them accordingly. Screw the technicalities. I hate it about skating, they have a name for every single trick, every tiny variation, you need a dictionary to keep up.