Former UFC referee ‘Big’ John McCarthy supplied his experience on UFC Seattle’s controversial ending.
Getting into the principle occasion highlight in determined want of a win, Henry Cejudo as a substitute suffered his third straight defeat when he surrendered a choice to Music Yadong. Sounds easy sufficient, but it surely was something however.
Closing in on the ultimate minute of the third spherical, Music inadvertently poked Cejudo within the left eye, bringing a pause to the motion. ‘Triple C’ took the complete 5 minutes of restoration time and opted to complete the rest of the spherical.
Nevertheless, as soon as Cejudo received again to his nook, he let or not it’s recognized that he couldn’t see out of his eye which prompted the combat to be known as off simply earlier than the fourth spherical was set to start.
It’s unclear if Cejudo anticipated the combat to be dominated a no-contest, however the contest was finally despatched to the scorecards the place Music gained a unanimous technical resolution.
With all of the confusion surrounding the end, McCarthy tried to supply some perception into what went down and why Cejudo was slapped with one other loss on his document regardless of being fouled.
“As simple as I can put this,” McCarthy wrote on X. “Henry was fouled by Yadong with the attention poke. The foul was dominated to be unintentional by Jason Herzog and Jason gave Henry 5:00 minutes of time to recuperate. Henry resumes within the combat for the rest of the third spherical by avoiding confrontation with Yadong. Through the break between the third and 4th spherical Henry spoke to his cornermen and acknowledged that he couldn’t see out of his left eye. The damage was not brought on by a good blow (Authorized Method).
“If the injury was caused by a Legal Technique Henry would have lost by TKO. The injury was caused by a FOUL. You cannot lose the fight based upon the stopping of the fight due to an injury caused by a foul. A sufficient number of rounds were completed for the judges scorecards to determine a winner of the contest based upon the fight passing the 3rd round of a 5 round fight. A Technical Decision is used to establish a winner in a fight where the allotted number of rounds (With this fight being 5) are not completed due to an injury sustained by a fighter that was caused by a foul be it intentional or accidental.”
John McCarthy explains why UFC referee Jason Herzog began the fourth spherical
Including to the confusion in Seattle was Referee Jason Herzog who knowledgeable each fighters that he must begin the fourth spherical after which instantly pause the motion to go to the scorecards. In line with the ABC’s web site, a combat solely has to succeed in the midway level for a combat to go to the judges as a result of an unintentional foul. Because it seems, that’s not the case in any respect.
McCarthy defined that in a five-round combat, the competition should enter the fourth spherical to go to a technical resolution, therefore why Herzog shortly stopped and began the penultimate spherical.
“Downside is that this, McCarthy added in a follow-up publish. “You possibly can have a look at what’s on the ABC’s web site beneath the principles, and it’s utterly mistaken. It’s going to say that the combat should go to the midway level for the combat to be judged as a Technical Choice. That’s just for fights which are both 2 spherical or 4 spherical fights. In a 3 spherical combat the combat should enter the third spherical and in a 5 spherical combat it should enter the 4th spherical to go to a Tech Choice.
“There are places like California that go on the finished the 2nd of a 3 round fight or finished the 3rd of a 5 round fight. But the actual Unified rule states must enter the 3rd or 4th . That is why Jason made a start and halt of the 4th. It should have been judged as a 10-10 round by all the judges and the scorekeeper should have come out with scores of 40-36 and 39-37 on two of the cards. It was not Jason’s fault the Commission didn’t complete the job correctly.”
