{"id":235743,"date":"2017-05-01T07:52:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T14:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=235743"},"modified":"2017-05-01T07:52:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T14:52:15","slug":"referee-john-mccarthy-says-differing-rules-athletic-commissions-not-fair-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/john-mccarthy\/referee-john-mccarthy-says-differing-rules-athletic-commissions-not-fair-fighters\/","title":{"rendered":"Referee John McCarthy says differing rules of athletic commissions is &#8220;not fair to the fighters&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the UFC travels across the united states \u2013 and further afield \u2013 the rules its athletes compete under can change depending on the rules of<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dana-white\/dana-white-new-york-state-athletic-commission-like-2001\/\"> the athletic commission that is overseeing the fight<\/a>. According to<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tito-ortiz\/referee-big-john-mccarthy-says-he-had-to-hurt-tito-ortiz-to-get-him-to-let-go-of-submission-on-chael-sonnen\/\"> veteran referee <\/a>Big John McCarthy, this is a real problem, and at the end of the day, an inconsistency that is simply not fair to the fighters.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy explained this feeling on a recent episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2017\/05\/john-mccarthy-different-rules-across-mma-commissions-not-fair-to-fighters-officials-or-fans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie Radio<\/a>, using the rules of the NFL for context.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cYou look at the NFL \u2013 the NFL is a business where no matter if they go to New York or Wisconsin in Green Bay, they go down to Dallas or San Francisco, they are an organization that runs the officials, that runs the sport of football for professionals,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cWith that, they have rules committees that meet every year \u2013\u00a0they go about coming up with new rules they think are going to benefit the sport, the participants, try to make things better for the fans and knowing what should be done in a certain situation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe problem with MMA is, we have all of these athletic commissions, and each athletic commission is an entity unto itself,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The athletic commission can do what it wants, and that\u2019s the problem we have with MMA. It\u2019s not fair to the fighters, it\u2019s not fair to the officials, it\u2019s not fair to the fans.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s a problem for fighters because fighters travel. The low-level fighters are fighting in their state, and they\u2019ll fight multiple times in their state, so they get used to that rule set. But if you\u2019re a top-level fighter and you do one show in California and it\u2019s under the Unified Rules of MMA, and then you go to Missouri and they say, \u2018Oh, we have a different set of rules,\u2019 you just affected that fighter in a bad way. You should care about that, but that\u2019s not what\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think of these comments from Big John McCarthy?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 5\/1\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the UFC travels across the united states \u2013 and further afield \u2013 the rules its athletes compete under can change depending on the rules of the athletic commission that is overseeing the fight. According to veteran referee Big John McCarthy, this is a real problem, and at the end of the day, an inconsistency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":157753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10176],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Referee John McCarthy says differing rules of athletic commissions is &quot;not fair to the fighters&quot; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Veteran MMA referee Big John McCarthy believes the varying rules from commission to commission are unfair to MMA fighters.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/john-mccarthy\/referee-john-mccarthy-says-differing-rules-athletic-commissions-not-fair-fighters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Referee John McCarthy says differing rules of athletic commissions is &quot;not fair to the fighters&quot; 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