Debate Erupts Over Controversial Fight Judging in Dubai

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00:00Now, a lot of people saw the fight in different ways.

00:03How did you see it, right?

00:05Some judges thought it was dominant.

00:07A lot of people thought it was close.

00:09For the most part, people thought the decision was correct,

00:11but the judge's scorecard was all over the place.

00:13What was your opinion on it?

00:15Yeah, I had it pretty close.

00:17I know one judge had it, what, 50-45, which I thought was absolutely absurd.

00:21One judge had it 48-47, which I think was more accurate.

00:25Anything with Nurmagomedov winning by one or two rounds, I think, was accurate.

00:30I think you could give Paul Hughes easily rounds two and three.

00:33A lot of people thought he finished strong, et cetera, et cetera.

00:35I think Nurmagomedov won.

00:37I don't think I've ever seen a night, and this was all night, by the way, in Dubai,

00:41where we had really bad judging, but the right fighters won, if that makes any sense.

00:46A lot closer than they should have been on the scorecards.

00:51I thought Corey Anderson dominated, and the judges had him barely winning,

00:55and then we had the fight that was, in the end, that was, I thought Nurmagomedov won

00:59by one or two rounds, and one judge had an absolute wipeout.

01:03So we had some bad judging.

01:04We had the right decision, which is really weird.

01:06We had some bad judging.

01:11I'm going to take it away from you.

01:14We're going to take it away from you.

01:19We're all around the world, but we get the right decision.

01:25We're all around the world.

01:27So let's do this.

01:29We're all around the world.

01:31So let's do this.