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𝗪𝗜𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗔! The PFL is coming! The 2025 #PFLWorldTournament Semi-Finals roll through Wichita, Kansas LIVE from the @INTRUSTarena on June 20th! Get your tickets TODAY! 🎟️pfl.info/WT25Wichita

@abcboxing trainer Sean Wheelock will be hosting a Bare Knuckle training course in Indianapolis! facebook.com/share/p/1EnDwn…

@jaypettry @Grabaka_Hitman Those Phoenix cards were awesome - @InvictaFights and @shanknapp matched them well!

@Grabaka_Hitman And then there was the Kansas card, where QFs and semis were 1x5 so that the final could be 3x5 and they wouldn't exceed five five-minute rounds in a night. I remember talking to Adam Roorbach about it.

Invicta held a one-night tournament in Colorado a couple years ago. Semifinals and final were full 3 x 5min round fights.

@Scott_Fontana UFC are allowed by @abcboxing to self regulate, so it could absolutely be done.

Not that I'm enthusiastic about PIF entrenchment in global sport and MMA in particular, but wonder what would happen if something like this was broached with KSA

Pleased to welcome this fight to Wichita - can't wait for the return of @NicoMHernandez to Koch Arena on the @WichitaState campus! espn.co.uk/boxing/story/_…

@lthomasnews @lthomasnews certain commissions push referees to take points and be proactive while others (and promotions) don’t.

There aren't really fouls in MMA. What we call "fouls" are really just techniques you can do most of the time, but maybe not always.

Welcome to @KansasBoxing and @KansasCommerce @PFLMMA - can not wait to host you!

@ufc @ESPNPlus Seems fair to tell them the score instead of having to guess...#livescoring @arielhelwani @lthomasnews

Here's how the judges saw that fight 👇 [ #UFC313 LIVE NOW on @ESPNPlus PPV ]

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@lthomasnews While I agree with the sentiment, going back and taking a point after the fight is over might set a very dangerous precedent. Davis would have fought differently if the knockdown was counted - referees need to be better educated and get the easy calls right the first time.

If they overturn Saturday's result, it'd be the first good decision an athletic commission has made in some time.

Between this and the ending of Cejudo/Song, our industry needs strong leadership and to better educate referees on the rules. Fighters are potentially losing millions of dollars because of these issues. @arielhelwani @lthomasnews

@MMAJunkie This is absolutely incorrect. Taking a point has no bearing on the fight going to the cards or not. At any point you can not lose a fight due to injuries resulting from a foul that is called by the referee.

Jason Herzog sees Henry Cejudo's #UFCSeattle point gripe, even if the outcome still would have been a loss mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2025/02/ufc-se…

@JimMiller_155 Officials needs to be empowered to #takethepoint - it's the only sport where officials are asked to deem intent when a common foul occurs.

It’s not the gloves, it’s the culture. The shameless, win at all costs mentality amongst fighters and the “eye pokes are an accident and not a foul” mentality most people seem to have. The good news is that we can change the culture. Penalize the foul immediately during the pause in action after confirming a strike or post was thrown with outstretched fingers. I believe not only a point deduction but also a purse deduction would have a rapid effect on how many pokes we see. I’ve come to these conclusions after being taped into those gloves 45 times, totaling over 7 hours inside the Octagon, landing over 1200 significant strikes (none of which were thrown with extended fingers, and I also slept at a Holiday Inn Express a few times.

@arielhelwani is 100% right. Referees need to be empowered to take points on all fouls, especially ones that will effect the remainder of the fight, much less end it.

@erikmagraken @JohnMcCarthyMMA A bigger question is why was a foul that directly led to the end of the fight not penalized. MMA needs a complete overhaul of the handling of fouls.

@JohnMcCarthyMMA Thanks John. Under Washington’s regs it reads that three complete rounds is all that’s needed. (Perhaps that’s why the 4th was not scored)

Hey Erik, no they were not there. Problem is this. You can look at what is on the ABC’s website under the rules, and it is completely wrong. It will say that the fight must go to the halfway point for the fight to be judged as a Technical Decision. That is only for fights that are either 2 round or 4 round fights. In a 3 round fight the fight must enter the 3rd round and in a 5 round fight it must enter the 4th round to go to a Tech Decision. There are places like California that go on the finished the 2nd of a 3 round fight or finished the 3rd of a 5 round fight. But the actual Unified rule states must enter the 3rd or 4th . That is why Jason made a start and halt of the 4th. It should have been judged as a 10-10 round by all the judges and the scorekeeper should have come out with scores of 40-36 and 39-37 on two of the cards. It was not Jason’s fault the Commission didn’t complete the job correctly

@dannyrube Yeah, no reason the fighters with their careers on the line need to know the score...

This Kattar/Zalal fight is exactly the reason why we will never have open scoring in the UFC.

@aaronbronsteter There are some who already do, and ALL should. @abcboxing should push for this. @KansasBoxing has allowed some to attend virtually when they asked.

Following UFC 311, I attended the commission's debrief with the referees and judges, which is typically not open to media. I detailed the experience and why it is so important that other commissions opt for this level of transparency in the future. sportsnet.ca/ufc/article/mo…

@SeanWheelock leading the Bare Knuckle Fighting referees course in @cityoflenexa - @KansasBoxing leading the way.

@erikmagraken They are still doing it with some of their international show - and @abcboxing allows it

Fun fact - when the UFC first started they pretended to be santioned by a body called the IFC which they themselves invented. When did they stop this charade? Why did they stop this charade?