Retired UFC star Josh Thomson has a problem with two of the jury members after UFC 318.
The only man who has eliminated Nate Diaz saw Dustin Poirier's pension fight on Saturday evening.
Josh Thomson agreed that the unanimous decision of Max Holloway was well deserved after UFC 318's main event.
However, the MMA veteran of 32-fighting set the problem with 'blessed' and won the second round of the fight.
Photo by Cooper Neill/Zuffa LLC
Josh Thomson calls for a change of radical scoring system
Max Holloway staggered his old rival before he hit him when the fight went to the floor.
The BMF champion spent a lot of time in the mountain and dropped annoying ground attacks while dominating a large part of the second stanza.
With 15 seconds left in the round, Poirier turned the tables by scoring his own knockdown, jumping to a guillotine choke and landing sore elbows.
The horn sounded to end the round and possibly save Holloway, who staggered back to his corner.
Two of the three jury members of the Cagesside scored that round against Poirier, despite an impressive recovery and late flurry.
Thomson does not agree with them that he has called for a major change in the MMA scoring system.
'The Punk' believes that a round on top ends a decisive factor in scoring a fight.
“That is how I would do a scoring system,” said Thomson on the podcast “weighing in” that he shares with the legendary referee John McCarthy, who did not agree with his take and laughed at the suggestion of the control change.
“I gave up my faith when it happened … The man who fell early, and then displays the storm, survives, and then returns and the end of the round wins by dropping that person, he should get more points for that.”
Dustin Poirier calls on UFC 318 jury members
Poirier raised the same issue as Thomson during his press conference after the fight on UFC 318.
'The Diamond' thought that his late success was enough to win him around two, so he was shocked when he discovered that only one of the judges gave it to him.
“Just in the eye of the storm, it felt much closer to me,” said Poirier.
“I really thought it might have been 2-2 to go into the fifth [round]. Mike Brown checked the score cards when we arrived at the dressing room, and I think the jury members gave me different rounds.
“I think the jury members gave him the second round. I thought I almost got him away. He hurt me too, but I thought my shot when I followed with elbows, I cracked him. He told me in the medical tent: 'Hey, man, you got me away. '
'Because it was in the fight, it felt much closer than that. When I heard the jury members' [scores]I had something like that: 'Really not. It was closer than that. '' '