Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) executive director Jeff Mullen said on a judges training call Wednesday that he did not agree with a controversial score in last Saturday night’s UFC women’s featherweight title fight between Alexa Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko.
Grasso and Shevchenko fought to a split draw in the fight, which was the main event of Noche UFC in Las Vegas. Grasso retained the UFC women’s flyweight title due to the result.
Judge Mike Bell, a highly regarded judge who works on most major UFC cards, scored the fifth and final round a 10-8 for Grasso, leading to him scoring the bout 47-47. Judge Sal D’Amato scored the fight 48-47 for Shevchenko, and judge Junichiro Kamijo scored it 48-47 for Grasso.
During the call Wednesday, Mullen and Nevada judges went over five rounds that some judges scored 10-8 on the Noche UFC card. When it came to the fifth round of Grasso vs. Shevchenko, every judge on the call, as well as Mullen, agreed that it should not have been a 10-8.
“Mike is one of the very best judges in the world,” Mullen said. “He’s just as good a judge as he was [before]. I don’t agree with his score on this round.”
The correct call, the judges said, would have been 10-9 Grasso…
