The best and worst from UFC Fight Night 133

#1 Worst: Questionable judging marred some of the fights

The judges made a mess of the call in the fight between Dennis Bermudez and Rick Glenn

It feels like a while since we’ve had some really egregious judging in the UFC, but if questionable scorecards are your thing, then last night was the show for you. Okay, so realistically, of the 8 fights that went to the judges’ scorecards on this show, only 2 of them probably should’ve gone the other way. But even in the fights that went the right way, there were some weird scores.

Case in point, Alexander Volkanovski absolutely dominated Darren Elkins. He almost finished him in Round One, and clearly won all three rounds. But somehow the judges not only didn’t give him a 10-8 first round, but one actually gave Elkins a round! Meanwhile, Cat Zingano was given a 10-8 round in her fight with Marion Reneau and while she clearly won, none of the rounds in that fight saw her do as much damage as Volkanovski did.

The really bad call came in the fight between Dennis Bermudez and Rick Glenn, though. The first round clearly went to Glenn, as he pieced Bermudez up with his striking and didn’t allow ‘The Menace’ much offense despite Bermudez’s aggression. But the second and third rounds saw Bermudez get his takedown game going, and the third round, in particular, saw him do damage with elbows from the top, although he was also cut by an elbow from Glenn.

Somehow though, two of the three judges saw fit to award the fight to Glenn, with one somehow calling it 30-27! It was a truly baffling call and worse still, it probably leaves Bermudez clinging onto his UFC career by a thread, as it was his third split decision loss in a row.