Following UFC 313: Pereira vs Ankalaev, there has been a large debate in the MMA space about how removals and removal of the removal must be scored by judges.
However, that is not the only score debate that is currently raging online; With veteran commentator Joe Rogan, he now explains why he thinks that submission attempts should also count on the score cards.
Ironically, the former bloody elbo editor Luke Thomas wrote in 2009 about this exact problem and 16 years later, the debate rages on how submissions are scored in MMA fights.
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Joe Rogan has problems with submitting attempts in MMA scores
Speaking through the latest episode of the Jre Podcast, Joe Rogan pointed out the lightweight between Arman Tsarukyan and Charles Oliveira as an example of how submission attempts should be scored.
“Look at the Arman Tsarukyan battle, when you think of that fight with Charles Oliveira – Charles Oliveira caught him several times in deep entries, which I think should count for a lot [in the scoring].
“If I looked at who won that fight, I would say that Oliveira won that fight because he had him in deep problems.”
Oliveira threatened several entries in that fight, which took place at UFC 300 in April 2024, but the victory was eventually handed over to Armenian via a razor obligation.
“It was a kind of controversial opinion, but I think a tightly closed triangle or d'Arce choke, or something in that sense, should be considered winning.
“You are doing something that is very difficult to do [that] Your opponent does not want to happen, you have dominated the position to the point that you have secured the entry and then a man squeaked out with sweat, technology or grit – but he was in F – – problems. “
Joe Rogan offers a simple solution for painful MMA trend
Submissions in MMA scores are not the only thing that Rogan has had problems with in recent months, after he has also spoken about the entire series of Eye-Pokes that unfortunately have already ruined several large periods this year.
Henry Cejudo vs Song Yadong ended in Eye-Poke Controverse; With the recent main event of the flight weight between Manel Kape and ASU Almabayev with annoying errors of fighting.
“I keep saying, but I think they should cover that handy hand,” Rogan said on his podcast at the end of 2024: “You have to cover the fingers, there is no reason not to cover the fingers as a bad glove.
“Just have a piece of leather that goes over the fingertips, so you have one thing. It will not penetrate your struggle and it will not change you striking. It's not going to change anything.
“In this way, at least when you are punctured in the eyes, you get a bone thing, you don't get something that goes into your eyeball.”
Given the controversy that came from the glove change of the UFC last year, Rogan's suggestion of a fingert top cover would be a beautiful central ground that can help to reduce fight -dependent pouring.
“Let them all cover and have a soft edge. So even if you are punctured in the eyes, you don't get an individual thing deep in your eyeball with an eyeball, that's what you get now. You get f – – fingernails! “
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