

MMA DECISIONS TWITTER SERIES
Only fights from Bellator, Cage Warriors, Invicta, KSW, World Series of Fighting and the UFC were considered.A fight must have a minimum of 15 fan scorecards.A fight must have a minimum of 6 media scores.Only decisions in which at least two-thirds of the tracked media scores disagreed with the actual winner AND decisions in which at least two-thirds of the submitted fan scorecards disagreed with the actual winner were included.* - Marking these fights as such does not imply that the judges held a geographical bias of any sort it is merely an objective observation. Conversely, if the loser was from the event's country and his/her opponent was from elsewhere, the fight was marked as an "away-country decision". "Home-Country Decisions", by definition, are those fights in which the winner hailed from the country in which the fight was held and his/her opponent was from another country. He is the first fighter to appear in the top ten twice in the same year. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos was the only fighter on the list twice: once on the winning side and once on the losing side.In previous years, there have never been more than four unanimous decisions in the top ten. Five of the top ten fights were unanimous decisions.Six of the top ten fights occurred at just three events: UFC 247 in Houston, UFC on ESPN 8 in Jacksonville, and UFC 251 in Abu Dhabi.That makes a remarkable 96 UFC decisions in the last two years without an entry on this list.

He added 58 decisions to his UFC tally in 2020. For the second straight year, the judge with the most completed UFC scorecards without an appearance in the top ten is Michael Bell.Sal D'Amato and Derek Cleary made the most appearances on this year's list, but they also submitted the most UFC scorecards for the year (77 and 65 decisions, respectively).Soliz also submitted scorecards in just three UFC fights all year. At the same event in Houston, Joe Soliz rendered disputed scorecards in the 5th and 11th most disputed bouts of the year, including the hotly discussed 49-46 Jon Jones card in his title fight against Dominick Reyes.He only rendered 3 UFC decisions all year, yet two of those decisions were in the top four of the year's most disputed. Though there were others on the list with more appearances, Danny Dealejandro's two entries were noteworthy.By the measurement used in this list, Murphy/Lee was the most disputed decision since Lauzon/Held in 2017.Martinez was moved from #4 to #2 on the list after it was pointed out that MMA Junkie scored the fight for Martinez and not Ewell as originally recorded.
