So according to Big John it doesn’t take much to be a judge…does that mean any old asshat off the street can walk into a states athletic commission and be hired as a judge? I agree with Timmy; I think its a great idea and I hope that its something that they give a try. I mean it can’t hurt right??

Simply a great idea. People can say what they want about Sylvia but the man is simply hard to beat. According to Big John McCarthy, there’s little you have to do to be certified as a judge. The Athletic State Commissions needs to be exposed.

I wonder if he feels that he oughta be allowed to use his “slingblade” in the cage.

Sorry guys, rough day on the loading dock.

Tim is right.
(punches self in nuts)

kicks and stomps should remain banned while un banning knees to the head of a downed opponent. mma sucks in a ring, the ring favors anyone who wants to be a pussy and try to crawl between the ropes to try and get it stood up or re centered because they are un happy with thier position, although most of the time the re start the same position in the middle, the stop and start of the fight definetly affects the outcome. in the cage the only restarts you have is if the fighters are playing human blanket.

Wow…I think Tim may have finally broke down and got a PR person. Unfucking believable.

Oscar, Pride was good but not perfect. Some of the worst/bias calls ever were in Pride, and the judging was fucking terrible.

i never really liked sylvia but i have to agree with his stance with kicks/stomps on the ground and judge certifications. if that became standard, non japanese mma wouldn’t be so pussy, perhaps even get rid of the cage aswell, favors wrestlers too much. pride fc was perfection

They need to put in concrete how to judge mma.

UFC should do that robot strikes counter that Strikeforce? uses? show you how many punch, kicks, submission attempts and executed!

We also need a legit tree of fighters so we can see who is going to fight who based on climbing up the latter not what the UFC decides!

The certification idea is interesting, but I can’t see it helping. I think most disputed decisions come from people valuing various aspects of MMA differently. Does a submission attempt count as much as a knockdown or slam?

Ex. If fighter A hits fighter B with a right hook and scores a knock-down, but fighter B locks in a triangles and almost submits fighter A in the same round, who won the round?

I say they just ran unlimited rounds until a stoppage and just negate the reason for judges in the first place. It really would justify that PPV price if you paid for 3 days of fighting rather than 3 hours.

The big guy is right, I think that this fight has been one of the most talked about in a while and has created quite a buzz. I keep saying this rematch needs to happen! I know the LHW division in the UFC is the toughest and with a lot of great contenders taht deserve a shot but a fight with this kind of buzz and surrounded with a GREAT card… WOW

at least he comes up with a decent idea instead of spending the time to write this incredibly hurtin post, Tim sylvia is awesome, big fucking deal if he fucked some hoe with his belt on, just cause you’ll never have one doesn’t mean you have to care what some guy does with his. At least he didn’t try to pawn it for coke like fucking ricco, why is no one of his nuts? Fedor is prolly gonna rock him, but man I would love to see Timmah knock the shit out of him cause it’d make all you bitches worship his Mr. T special.

Good idea though, since cecil peoples would fail the test as soon as they handed it to him we’d at least have one less judge who has his head firmly encased between his ass cheeks.

It really isn’t a bad idea and I hope someone runs with it. It would help the sport out greatly.