UFC Photo: Magny and Lombard nearly kill each other, judges still had all 10-9s

UFC: Brisbane co-main event had judges that still don’t seem to know how to use the 10-pt must system.

The UFC: Brisbane co-main event had a crazy back and forth match up that saw Neil Magny dropped and almost finished by Hector Lombard in the opening round, only to recover to completely dominate the second round. That stanza had the MMA world screaming for a stoppage as referee Steve Perceval allowed Magny to throw countless shots to a completely defenseless Lombard for almost 2 minutes.

This led to Hector making it to the end of the round, but all the unnecessary damage he took from the bad refereeing just let to him being promptly finished just seconds into the third. (Watch highlights here)

The scorecards didn’t matter with the end outcome, but you’d still expect it to be pretty straight forward as there were two very dominant rounds. Alas, it was much different in reality.

While I scored it exactly the same as how Dallas Winston did on our play-by-play — a 10-8 score first round for Lombard, and a 10-7 score on the second for Magny — the judges didn’t. In fact there’s not even a single 10-8 on there.

It was quite baffling, but judges Evan Field, Barry Foley, and Kon Papaionannou all somehow still had both rounds as 10-9s.

Magny-Lombard was 19-19 on all three cards heading into the third. pic.twitter.com/K8Noawx3uw

— John Morgan (@MMAjunkieJohn) March 20, 2016

You see a lot of people complain about the 10-point must system in Mixed Martial Arts, but as I’ve said in the past, it’s the judges who are the bigger problem. Those were two of the most one-sided rounds you’ll see, ones that could’ve been stopped on numerous occasions. Yet they all still refused to use the other scores on their disposal, seemingly dead set on turning this into the “10-9” must system.

UFC: Brisbane co-main event had judges that still don’t seem to know how to use the 10-pt must system.

The UFC: Brisbane co-main event had a crazy back and forth match up that saw Neil Magny dropped and almost finished by Hector Lombard in the opening round, only to recover to completely dominate the second round. That stanza had the MMA world screaming for a stoppage as referee Steve Perceval allowed Magny to throw countless shots to a completely defenseless Lombard for almost 2 minutes.

This led to Hector making it to the end of the round, but all the unnecessary damage he took from the bad refereeing just let to him being promptly finished just seconds into the third. (Watch highlights here)

The scorecards didn’t matter with the end outcome, but you’d still expect it to be pretty straight forward as there were two very dominant rounds. Alas, it was much different in reality.

While I scored it exactly the same as how Dallas Winston did on our play-by-play — a 10-8 score first round for Lombard, and a 10-7 score on the second for Magny — the judges didn’t. In fact there’s not even a single 10-8 on there.

It was quite baffling, but judges Evan Field, Barry Foley, and Kon Papaionannou all somehow still had both rounds as 10-9s.

You see a lot of people complain about the 10-point must system in Mixed Martial Arts, but as I’ve said in the past, it’s the judges who are the bigger problem. Those were two of the most one-sided rounds you’ll see, ones that could’ve been stopped on numerous occasions. Yet they all still refused to use the other scores on their disposal, seemingly dead set on turning this into the “10-9” must system.