UFC on FOX 7: Henderson vs. Melendez April 20th

Brian Stann said the "stats" should be removed because they are pretty much useless(not to mention misleading) in American MMA that goes round by round. I agree with Mr. Stann.

Also, i'll take it a step further and say they often count attempted strikes as landed strikes and that significant strikes is too subjective to be shown on TV as something that is supposed to give the viewer an idea who is winning the fight.

Brown vs. Mein gets FOTN

Thomson and Palacio share KOTN

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the count on the SF/UFC fights was 4-4...2 of UFC's wins were disputed decisions so it's fair to say, in the building that Scott Coker built...the flag is raised.

Apparently the judge that gave the fight to Melendez is a Cesar Gracie affiliate owner.

http://www.mmagraciefighter.com/instructors.html

http://mmadecisions.com/decision.jsp?id=4196

That's an unforgivable oversight by the commission. He scored round 4 for Melendez. The only round Bendo clearly won. Which means he probably have a clear Melendez round to Bendo.

It doesnt matter much though because i know some will think that it buries any thought Gil should have won...the many who felt Melendez won that fight on the TV side of things, the journalism side of things, and the fan side of things arent affiliates of Team Cesar Gracie.

Oh I'm not arguing the fight couldn't have possibly been scored in favor of Gil. I just don't know why the commission doesn't at least do a little checking around on these people before they assign them to judge certain fights. The fact that he judged round 4 for Gil is very strange, though. Pretty much everyone I've seen has agreed that Bendo won round 4.

I had Gil clearly winning last night but I had people over and didn't give it my full attention. I just rewatched and think it was a draw. It's hard to score all those kicks.