{"id":372656,"date":"2021-01-06T06:06:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T14:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=372656"},"modified":"2021-01-06T06:06:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T14:06:53","slug":"ufc-president-dana-white-shares-his-thoughts-on-open-scoring-in-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-president-dana-white-shares-his-thoughts-on-open-scoring-in-mma\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC president Dana White shares his thoughts on open scoring in MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC president <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/justin-gaethje-will-probably-fight-charles-oliveira-next-according-to-dana-white\/\">Dana White<\/a> has given his thoughts on the constant debate surrounding the potential introduction of open scoring in mixed martial arts.<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind open scoring is that everyone would be well aware of how the judges are scoring the fight as the contest goes on, whether it be a three round affair or a five round main event.<\/p>\n<p>Many have campaigned for this to be introduced in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, but Dana White has been pretty clear in his reasons for not wanting it to happen.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Will Open Scoring Work in MMA?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6vPcCSoNNw4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we do the fights I have an idea of who I think won or lost or whatever, but when I\u2019m standing there with the belt, I don\u2019t know what Bruce Buffer is going to say,\u201d White said during an online chat with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/plus.espn.com\/\">ESPN+<\/a> subscribers and Invicta color commentator Laura Sanko (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2021\/01\/dana-white-ufc-mma-open-scoring-mostly-downsides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201cHe doesn\u2019t tell me anything. The judges tell him, the commission do their thing, they tell him and I\u2019m standing there waiting to hear too so I\u2019m just as blown away as the fans are. And I agree with you, it completely takes away the anticipation of who won the fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a guy knows that he\u2019s up two rounds and you\u2019re a professional fighter, you can absolutely stay away from a guy for an entire round and make the fight completely horrible,\u201d White added. \u201cIf you already know you\u2019ve got two rounds in the bag, guarantee if you saw your score up there, all I have to do is stay away from this guy for the next five minutes. That makes for a lot of bad third rounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIts never going to be perfect,\u201d White concluded. \u201cThere are always going to be fights that absolutely drive you insane and piss you off, blow your bets, there will always be all these other things that go with the fight business. At the end of the day, watching the fight and waiting for the results are fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Dana White&#8217;s assessment of open scoring? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC president Dana White has given his thoughts on the constant debate surrounding the potential introduction of open scoring in mixed martial arts. The idea behind open scoring is that everyone would be well aware of how the judges are scoring the fight as the contest goes on, whether it be a three round affair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":351722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10112,39610],"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>UFC president Dana White shares his thoughts on open scoring in MMA | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC president Dana White has given his thoughts on the constant debate surrounding the potential introduction of open scoring in MMA.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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