Former UFC double champion claims UFC Atlanta judge ‘should never judge again’ after main event scorecard

Henry Cejudo has focused on Mike Bell for his score of the UFC Atlanta Main Event between Kamaru Usman and Joaquin Buckley.

Last Saturday, the Premier Promotion returned to Atlanta for UFC Atlanta with a Welterweight main event between former champion Kamaru Usman and the rising competitor Joaquin Buckley.

'The Nigerian nightmare' successfully broke his three fights that lose skid, Buckley dominate over five rounds and picking up the unanimous decision.

After his victory, Usman stated that he wants to fight the winner of the coming welterweight title fight between Jack della Maddalena and the Islam Makhakev, who rejects the callout of Belal Muhammad.

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Henry Cejudo Slams Mike Bell to score UFC Atlanta Main Event

In the event, Usman was written off by a large majority of the UFC fan base because of its inactivity in the past two years, as well as his persistent knee problems.

The performance of the 38-year-old was so impressive that even his rival Mohammed praised him for his performance.

For the most part of the fight, Usman showed his extremely dominant wrestling, so that 'New Mansa's' powerful success was destroyed.

Two of the jury members scored the fight 49-46 and scored the last round for Buckley after a late rally. Experienced judge Mike Bell, however, scored the fight 48-47 and USman only gave an advantage of one round.

And with that Bell is the target of the former UFC -Dubbele champion Henry Cejudo who has questioned Bell's Scorecard.

“I had it 49-46, which judge had 48-47 would never have to judge again, that is terrible, guy. And I hope it was not Derek Cleary because Derek Cleary sewed me several times and if it is dude, I don't know that Derek were Cleary and Sal d'Amano are the jury members and those duda-dues.

Cejudo hopeful that AI assessment will take over in the UFC

With the growing influence of AI in the sport, UFC boss Dana White consistently claimed that AI will come in the current UFC ranking system and will overhaul too much.

'Triple C', however, hopes that the UFC will go one step further and will have AI judge fights to get rid of human mistakes.

“I hope that AI can come together at some point and do it,” said Cejudo.

The business partner of White, Turki Alshikh, has introduced AI to his boxing events, although the official human judges have not yet taken over.

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