UFC 247: Dana White, Joe Rogan blast judge’s ‘insane’ 49-46 scorecard for Jon Jones against Dominick Reyes
- Two judges score close main event 48-47 in champion’s favour, but third has Jones winning four rounds
- UFC commentator Rogan says scorecard ‘disrespectful’ to performance of Reyes
Jon Jones’ victory over Dominick Reyes was a close call in the eyes of most – except for one judge who was cage-side at UFC 247.
Two of the judges had it 48-47 for Jones, despite Reyes impressive performance in the first three rounds, which many observers believed he had a strong case for winning.
But the third judge, Joe Soliz, somehow had it 49-46.
“Insane,” was UFC president Dana White’s assessment of that scorecard.
“The scoring was all over the map,” White added at the post event press conference at Toyota Centre in Houston. “Joe Silva, our former matchmaker here, had it as draw. [Yahoo reporter] Kevin Iole hit me up, he had Jones 3-2. Going into last round, I had Dominick Reyes 3-1.
“My kids are terrorising me that the fix is in, and ‘How come this happened, Dad? Reyes won the fight’. The list goes on and on. There’s not like this landslide of people saying it was a robbery, people have it all over the place.
