{"id":57364,"date":"2013-04-22T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=57364"},"modified":"2022-02-06T13:09:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T21:09:30","slug":"judge-who-scored-fight-for-melendez-trains-under-cesar-gracie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/judge-who-scored-fight-for-melendez-trains-under-cesar-gracie\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Who Scored Fight for Melendez Trains Under Cesar Gracie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/main-stare.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57237\" title=\"Benson Henderson and Gilbert Melendez\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/main-stare.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/main-stare.jpg 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/main-stare-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/main-stare-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This past Saturday, at UFC on FOX 7, UFC lightweight champion, Benson Henderson brought yet another title fight into the championship rounds, winning a <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufc-on-fox-7-main-card-live-play-by-play\/\">razor-thin split decision<\/a> victory that could have justifiably gone either way. When it was all said and done, it seemed like a typical Benson Henderson fight with a typical decision victory.<\/p>\n<p>What stood out though was the fact that Gilbert Melendez won the fight on one of the judges scorecards, a card that was filled out by an member of the Gracie Fight Team under Cesar Gracie. This judge is Wade Vierra. He had the fight scored 47-48 for Melendez, who is also a member of the Gracie Fight Team.<\/p>\n<p>Now this isn&#8217;t to assume the Vierra purposely scored a fight in favor of a fighter that he could have held some bias towards, as Melendez. The fight, like I said, was extremely close and without this affiliation, no one would have looked twice at one judge going against the grain. This seems more like an peculiar coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, a challenger must simply do more than eek out a decision against a champion to take his belt and the majority of the judges felt that Melendez hadn&#8217;t done enough. Still, this is something to think about when selecting judges in a system that is far from perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Wade Vierra&#8217;s LinkedIn Profile header:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Wade-Vierra.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57372\" title=\"Wade Vierra\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Wade-Vierra.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Wade-Vierra.png 635w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Wade-Vierra-300x99.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Wade-Vierra-585x194.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Wade-Vierra-390x130.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the latest MMA news visit <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\">BJPENN.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This past Saturday, at UFC on FOX 7, UFC lightweight champion, Benson Henderson brought yet another title fight into the championship rounds, winning a razor-thin split decision victory that could have justifiably gone either way. When it was all said and done, it seemed like a typical Benson Henderson fight with a typical decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":57237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[131,149,194,9,3977,15,3578,4817],"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>Judge Who Scored Fight for Melendez Trains Under Cesar Gracie | BJPenn.com<\/title>\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\/ufcnews\/judge-who-scored-fight-for-melendez-trains-under-cesar-gracie\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Judge Who Scored Fight for Melendez Trains Under Cesar Gracie | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; This past Saturday, at UFC on FOX 7, UFC lightweight champion, Benson Henderson brought yet another title fight into the championship rounds, winning a razor-thin split decision victory that could have justifiably gone either way. 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