Texas MMA judge Seth Fuller uploaded a video directed at Joe Rogan, Jon Anik and Daniel Cormier according to their comments about his judging at UFC 277. The video, which is on the subject of 30-minutes long, is a in particular unusual example of an MMA judge publicly discussing fights they have adjudicated.

What spurred this movement from Fuller is the UFC broadcast personnel’s complaint revolving around the scorecards for Hamdy Abdelwahab vs. Don’Tale Mayes. Abdelwahab received the struggle by means of lower up choice with two judges scoring 29-28 for the Egyptian and Fuller scoring 29-28 for Mayes.

When Rogan heard a judge had given the struggle to Mayes, he said (on air) “that guy needs a talking to… we need to take a look at to see what he’s been on.”

In line with Fuller, those words from Rogan lead to an immediate backlash at the side of a take a look at from an anonymous amount asking “did you even watch the struggle f***tard?” Fuller said the comments have moreover damaged his standing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Legislation; the gang that oversees combat sports activities actions inside the state of Texas.

“Joe Rogan you’re however my hero,” said Fuller in his video (ht MMA Fighting). “Alternatively I have to face that [criticism], and everybody I know has to face that, and that’s the essential section, the price has to hear that. Now the price goes, howdy, on account of this we shouldn’t have put this guy on the primary UFC. … And that’s to me, various BS, because of if I’m doing it improper, then cite me for doing it improper. Alternatively in case you’re pretending that I’m now not professional, or I was careless, or I didn’t suppose, and do my perfect conceivable, and I don’t care about the ones fighters and care that the result is the proper outcome in step with the rules that they agreed to, you’re merely plain improper.”

Fuller added that he used to be hoping his video received’t value him his “longer term judging career.”

“In all probability it’s merely my ego causing me to check out this entire issue,” he persisted. “It’s maximum indubitably an unpleasant idea. I maximum indubitably can’t win proper right here. Alternatively I believe it’ll ship coaching. It’ll ship understanding.”

Fuller moreover introduced an entire breakdown of why he scored the struggle for Mayes. In his opinion the fighters had been even heading into the overall moments of the third round. In line with Fuller a late flurry by means of Mayes earned him the third round and thus the struggle.

“If I had it in my head as even, then I would transfer to regulate, and there’s for sure in my thoughts, Abdelwahab would win,” he added. “On the other hand, that’s now not what I’ve been prompt, that’s now not what I’ve been professional, and that’s now not what the unified MMA rules state, and because of this truth now not the rules that the ones two men agreed to, and it may well be unfair to do the rest.

“Two other judges obviously disagree, and I have no drawback with that. Alternatively I merely wanted to show you, I’m now not an idiot, I’m now not dangerous at scoring, I don’t now not know what I’m having a look at. I do know what I’m having a look at, and in truth, I would say I know the rules that I merely said to you upper than the announcers, because the announcers merely went all through the route that I went via 12 years previously, and their rankings had been all over.”

Fuller, who claimed to be a Brazilian jiu jitsu black-belt with 10 years of refereeing and judging revel in, added that comments from Rogan and a up-to-the-minute article regarding the necessities of judging and officiating in Texas, led to him now not getting to oversee a struggle on the primary card at UFC 277.

“I wasn’t depended directly to do the principle card of the UFC irrespective of my lengthy revel in and resolution to this sport. And that’s OK. I’m now not mad the least bit. … This type of issue, the ones type of articles, gets to the price and it’s going against my reputation and it’s going against whether or not or now not they’ll use me over again in the future. Alternatively the popularity is a big one. This is my first time inside the UFC, and now I have a reputation of being an unpleasant judge. Tens of thousands and thousands of people heard those comments. So on account of this I’m responding.”

The TDLR have since introduced a statement to MMA Fighting about Fuller’s statement.

“TDLR asks all judges to refrain from commenting publicly on scoring, and they are steered to refer all questions to our public wisdom officer, Tela Mange,” be told part of that statement. “All judges are made conscious about this protection and we think them to act accordingly.”

This isn’t the principle time judges and referees had been criticized for their art work on a UFC card in Texas. In 2020 the TDLR spoke back to Rogan straight away after the UFC commentator accused a judge at having a look down at the ground or his phone merely forward of a controversial score used to be as soon as given after a struggle between Lauren Murphy and Andrea Lee.

The TDLR claimed that judge used to be as soon as having a look down at a follow beneath the bottom level of the Octagon.

In 2021 UFC fighter Steven Peterson vowed not at all to struggle in his space state of Texas after calling the price “f***ed”.

“I have 9 losses in my career, 5 of which I would extraordinarily contest, sit with you, watch the tape and argue with you the best way I received the struggle. Those picks had been all out of place in Texas,” he said.