Round Action & Metric Tally
Unified Rules Guidance (ABC MMA Rules)
Suggested: 10-9 Red (Norma Dumont). Greater effective striking damage (+8 significant strikes) outweighs single takedown with low positional damage. Control without damage is secondary.
Official Cageside Scorecards
3-JUDGE PANELThe Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts — Scoring Framework
Legal strikes that have immediate or cumulative potential to contribute to the end of the match. Heavily weighed over volume. Successful takedowns, submission attempts, and reversals are weighed only when accompanied by impact or finishing danger.
Only assessed if Effective Striking and Grappling are completely equal. Attempts to finish the fight, moving forward while executing legal attacks. Merely following an opponent without attacking does not earn points.
Dictating the pace, place, and position of the match. Only considered as a tiebreaker if both Striking/Grappling and Aggressiveness are completely tied.
A judge SHALL evaluate whether a 10-8 round is warranted if a fighter has spent significant time dominating their opponent in both damage, duration, and control where the opponent offered little to no effective offense.