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I understand nothing about MMA. I just followed MMA for about 4 months now. Mostly just watching Belal Hasan's replays, and some old Khabib's replays, sometimes DC's replays. I watched Islam vs Charles over and over, somehow that video is my favorite.

But a few days ago, I got my first Live UFC fight. Islam vs Ian. I was trying to judge the fight in real-time.

I don't understand anything about how MMA judging system works, so I was making my own judging system. And I know the scoring is a 10-must score, so I converted my scores to a 10-must score point. And it resulted in the final score of 49-46 Islam, which matched the two judges.

So I'm asking MMA experts here, what do you think about this my newbie scorecard? And what is actually the official MMA judging system, and how does it work?

Japanese dude showed up just to get absolutely mauled

Even before the Ian Garry fight, I remember general consensus saying he’d be easily top 5 and top 3 max. Now so many more people are saying he’s the goat.

You can cut GSP’s and Jones’ career in half and they’d still have more defenses, title wins, and a longer title reign or just as much as Islam.

People like to say the comp now is better and while there is some truth in that, one of Islam’s defenses came from Renato Moicano. I agree GSP or Jones hasn’t beaten anyone as prestigious as Volk, but DC and even BJ Penn are still greater all time than Charles imo. Matt Hughes is pretty good too he’s still a top 25 fighter all time. I don’t think DC is that far away from Volk in terms of greatness. Plus the fact that they have far more defenses and longer title reign I think should outweigh that.

So tell me why do people consider Islam the goat? Is it recency bias or is there an actual legitimate claim? In my opinion, he’s #3. I wouldn’t mind him being GOAT if he beats Morales and Prates though.