Retired UFC star Josh Thomson has an issue with two of the judges after UFC 318.
The only man who has knocked out Nate Diaz watched Dustin Poirier‘s retirement fight on Saturday night.
Josh Thomson agreed that Max Holloway’s unanimous decision win was well-deserved after the UFC 318 main event.
However, the 32-fight MMA veteran took issue with ‘Blessed’ winning the second round of the fight.
Josh Thomson calls for radical scoring system change
Max Holloway wobbled his long-time rival before battering him when the fight went to the floor.
The BMF champion spent a lot of time in mount, dropping nasty ground strikes as he dominated much of the second stanza.
With 15 seconds left in the round, Poirier turned the tables by scoring his own knockdown, jumping for a guillotine choke, and landing painful-looking elbows.
The horn sounded to end the round and potentially save Holloway, who wobbled back to his corner.
Two of the three cageside judges scored that round against Poirier, despite an impressive recovery and late flurry.
Thomson disagrees with them so much that he’s called for a major change to the MMA scoring system.
‘The Punk’ believes who ends a round on top should be a deciding factor when scoring a fight.
“That’s how I would do a scoring system,” Thomson said on the ‘WEIGHING IN’ podcast he shares with the legendary referee John McCarthy, who disagreed with his take and laughed at the rule change suggestion.
“I put my credence on when it happened…The guy who got dropped early, and then weathers the storm, survives, and then comes back and wins the end of the round by dropping that person back, he should get more points for that.”
Dustin Poirier calls out UFC 318 judges
Poirier raised the same issue as Thomson during his post-fight press conference at UFC 318.
‘The Diamond’ thought his late success was enough to win him round two, so he was shocked to find out that only one of the judges gave it to him.
“Just being inside the eye of the storm, it felt a lot closer to me,” Poirier said.
“I really thought it might have been 2-2 going into the fifth [round]. Mike Brown checked the scorecards when we got to the locker room, and I think the judges gave me different rounds.
“I think the judges gave him the second round. I thought I almost had him out. He hurt me, too, but I thought my shot when I followed up with elbows, I was cracking him. He told me in the medical tent, ‘Hey, man, you had me out.’
“Being in the fight, it felt a lot closer than that. When I heard the judges’ [scores], I was like, ‘No way. It was closer than that.'”