Cecil Peoples' explanation

[tn94z]

TweetThis is what I was trying to explain about how leg kicks and what not are not scored as well as you may think

After being blistered on the internet for 36 hours, Cecil Peoples, one of the judges from the disputed Lyoto Machida-Mauricio Rua is firing back. Fans have been crushing him and the UFC over the Machida 48-47 decision. Many fighters outside the cage believed that Rua won the fight. One media member said the UFC [expletive] up and Dana White needs to stop blogging and fix the sport. Peoples told CageReport.net that there is a lack of understanding on how to score a fight:

"First of all what you need to understand is that from where the judges are sitting, we get to see things that the fans at home may miss. Mauricio Rua was being aggressive but it wasn't effective aggressiveness which is what we as the judges look for when scoring a fight. The way I saw it, Lyoto was landing the more cleaner and damaging strikes throughout the fight - if you take a look at the judging criteria clean strikes are valued more-so than the quantity of strikes landed. Although Rua threw a lot of low kicks they were not as damaging as Lyotos diverse attack in the earlier rounds which is why I scored the first three rounds for Machida.

You have to keep in mind we always the favor the fighter who is trying to finish the fight, and leg kicks certainly don't do that.

When both fighters are engaged in a striking match what I always look for is the fighter who is being judicious, picking his spots, being accurate and landing the cleaner strikes which ultimately is what Lyoto did more effectively than Rua. Lyoto made Shogun come after him, he determined where the fight took place which in my opinion constitutes as effective Octagon control.

I recognize the fact that Rua did have a few takedown attempts during the course of the fight however Lyoto defended them all successfully which counts as effective grappling in his favor, where as unsuccessful takedown attempts are not scored at all. Therefore going by that criteria, I believe Lyoto won the fight clearly. I'm just glad the other judges on the panel saw it the same way and I'm sure the fans who understand the technicalities of the sport agree with the decision too."

[FUZO]

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we get to see things that the fans at home may miss

Bull shit on that comment..

You have to keep in mind we always the favor the fighter who is trying to finish the fight, and leg kicks certainly don't do that

bull shit again leg kicks have finished fights who is this moron making this article

Lyoto made Shogun come after him, he determined where the fight took place which in my opinion constitutes as effective Octagon control.

I cant beleive what type of crap is coming out of this guys mouth

Lyoto made Shogun come after him, he determined where the fight took place which in my opinion constitutes as effective Octagon control.

Bull shit shogun was on the attack going after him. machida kept moving away from him this is just a dumb ass article from a dumb ass guy

I believe Lyoto won the fight clearly. I'm just glad the other judges on the panel saw it the same way and I'm sure the fans who understand the technicalities of the sport agree with the decision too."

Yeah sure you dumb ass again. What a nut job. "Lyoto won the fight clearly"
oh yeah he wont it clearly.My god this guy is a complete waste of time

[FUZO]

Tweetwhat board or site did this article come from

[tn94z]

TweetIt's not the article or the site that wrote it. These are Cecil People's comments. He was one of the ringside judges at the event.

But this explains what I mean by the way the judges look at fights. MMA needs its own scoring system. These are just athletic commission judges. The judge boxing matches as well.

Don't get me wrong Fuzo, like I said earlier, I had Shogun winning the fight but I knew that it was really close. When they said unanimous, that just blew my mind. I just posted this to kind of prove what I said about the way they judge the fights and how some of these weird decisions are made.

[FUZO]

TweetYeah cool I understand

[jipped genes]

Tweetthats what you get when a boxing judge judges a MMA fight.