Laura Sanko joins Daniel Cormier to discuss the state of judging in the UFC following the controversial decision in Saturday’s main event between Holly Holm and Ketlen Vieira. In addition, DC responds to being told “leave me alone” by his pal Khabib. Plus espn.com debuted their UFC weight-class power rankings this week. DC comments, and lets you know his top five.
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I had the same understanding as DC on this, but now I’m like hey, “All about Damage now baby!” 🥳
I’m neither pro nor against open scoring, but the betting excuse was ridiculous. I couldn’t care less about some degenerate’s opinions on the sport because it might affect their past time. Life’s a b¡tch, then you die… they’ll get over it
ya'll are awful
They sent dc the weasel's breakdown.
Laura is sexily gorgeous
I love that DC is arguing with Laura when she agrees with him and is simply saying the judges are looking for different things because they’re trained that way
Regardless of how we thing the judging needs to be changed, we can all agree that the judging needs to be changed.
Open scoring takes way from the excitement, also if I’m up 3 to 5.. I’m coasting.
Doesn't matter someone always complains
Sad truth is judges are fcking stupid
holly lost. bad.
I am with open scoring. You don't need to show the scores from each judge, the judge's scores can still be anonymous you can just show which fighter is winning based on the total or just show who won the round.
It’s shocking how welterweight is being slept on because of Kamaru Usmans dominance. Lightweight has a great top 10 but the entire top 15 of welterweight are absolute killers that put on phenomenal performances.
Cormier is so biased towards wrestling. Holding someone is not fighting it's clinching.
People eating large amounts of money if you will but perhaps this could influence judges and their art of judging it should be definitive it just means that the winners arbitrary the judge's opinion no matter how educated you or lack thereof education
DC you need to be a judge. We need old mma high athletes to be judges! And why not 5 judges? 3 is wrong!
HOLLY WON!
DC is a nitwit sometimes
Covington v. Usman 2 not being scored a draw was a terrible tragedy in MMA thanks to the blind muppets across the octagon.
This is why all fighters need health bars . Then we could just go off that.
DC and Laura Sanko both company guys. They will never say something against the UFC. Disgusting how they sold themselves
The judging was based on who the big money was bet on & Holms Had It.. The gambling commission & their casinos all won and Holi got ripped off a hard earned win.. STOP WITH ALL THESE "B S EXCUSES WHY/HOW HOLMS LOST" ALREADY Laura YOUR reasoning is TOTALY WRONG!
Honestly, no matter how popular Holly is, she is not a reason to be a good fighter.
Many years pass in the hope that Holly might be able to improve her usual habits during the strike.
Unfortunately, it is clear that nothing has changed, except that the fear of being hit causes great caution and pressure others to the fence!
Anyway, years ago Holly should have been coaching or something like that, because obviously he's never been good at strikes, wrestling or jujitsu!
The judges may have noticed that the rules may sometimes be too stupid.
Laura acting like she understands fighting. lol Cute.Too much cake on your face, Laura. Can't see you.
Holm got beat up plain and simple
She was getting hit clean and wasn’t catching Viera clean she was pushing her against the fence but wasnt doing anything with the control, and she got judo thrown all crazy
“Leave Khabib alone”- shut up Sanko
Ain’t no way Islam is a heavy favorite against Charles that’s blasphemy
get this floozy off here
DC on something. Holding should get points ? That’s wrestling advantage, should we give points for the striker to jab and move. Shift, jab and create distance. Should that count for extra points ? Move move move keep away from the holding. Should that be points ?
You guys taking up for that bogus decision prove the whole of UFC is a sham. I'm done with it.
oh ok, so we have to change the way we view a fight to understand the judges. thats a beautiful cop out and slight of hand. having this much open to interpretation, is leaving a door open for b.s. it was pretty obvious who won the fight. i guess this is where they will start litigating themselves into annoyance, like all of the other main stream sports
bruh DC put featherweight over welterweight lmao
And honestly, I love fried chicken 🍗 🤤
Blah, blah, blah, blah….Holly got robbed !
The best thing for the sport is less clinching on the cage. Fans always hated that because it creates a stalemate during the fight. Judges not calling for long cage clinches is amazing for fans. Fights will be so much more exciting when fighters realize this.
And honestly, but the reality is – Holly got screwed by clueless judges !
When are you two doing a beer bong challenge again..?!?🤭
Need more Laura!
I wish to roll with Sanko.
Mma needs experienced mma judges some dont understand when a fighter-is threatening with a bjj stoppage or a wrestling stoppage most dont understand more than strikes.