While the co-headliner of UFC 251 ‘Alexander Volkanovski vs Max Holloway’ continues to rumble in the debate of UFC Fans, welterweight fighter Ben Askren has chipped in to provide his opinion regarding the result of the fight.

Featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski retained his title against Max Holloway after an intense ‘dog-fight’ at the co-main event of UFC 251. However, a lot of fans including some MMA veterans have claimed that Max Holloway should have won the fight and accused the judges of curbing The Hawaian’s ‘well-deserved’ victory. Meanwhile, Ben Askren seemingly believes that it is not the judge’s fault and justified the result of the matchup via social media.

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Ben Askren claims the result of Alexander Volkanovski vs Max Holloway’ was not the judge’s fault

‘The Funky’ Ben Askren recently took to Instagram and voiced his opinion regarding the recently happened ‘Alexander Volkanovski vs Max Holloway’ matchup. According to Askren, it was not the judge’s fault rather Ben Askren stated it to be the system’s fault.

While MMA fans continue to bash the UFC judges for their scoring method, Ben Askren revealed that UFC does not follow a full fight scoring system. ‘The Funky’ also stated that Max Holloway won the first two rounds. However, Askren believes that the third round was extremely close and hesitated to agree that Max Holloway won the round.

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When referring to the final two rounds of the matchup, Askren took Volkanovski’s side. However, the welterweight prospect also claimed that “We” need a full fight scoring system to get over al the confusion regarding the result of a match up.

“That was not the fault of the judges that was the fault of the system. 10-9 mark is a fraud way to judge a fight. It is really simple. “If you watch it without 10-9 process you would think Max Holloway won the fight, I guess that’s how you would say that but obviously he did not. “You watch the full fight which is how you score the championship.”

“One and two are relatively clear for Hollway, four and five are relatively clear for Volkanovski. Three was like for me is as close as it gets. I mean I think I said like I have no idea who won that round or something like that but then again when I scored the fighters that I had 3-2 for Holloway but I am really not all convinced on that one because you know it was so close. So, yeah 10-9 mark system guys”  said Ben Askren.

Dana White believes Alexander Volkanovski vs Max Holloway vs badly judged

UFC president Dana White has also stated that the co-headliner of UFC 251 was misjudged and has already talked about lining up Max Holloway opposite Alexander Volkanovski for the third time inside the octagon. The pair primarily met each other in December when Volkanovski snatched the featherweight title from Holloway. In the rematch at UFC 251, Volkanovski successfully retained his title against Max Holloway. However, considering the fact that both the contests were ‘lose-call’, Dana White is seemingly planning to set up a rubber match between two of his A-listed featherweight prospects.

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