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Would Five UFC 114 Judges Have Made a Difference?

Fans at Saturday nights UFC 114 event in Vegas booed when Antonio Rogerio Nogueira was awarded the victory with a split decision of two out of three judges making that call.

A new judging system was being tested also this weekend in Amsterdam which might have given Brilz the victory that fans thought he earned.

The system in Amsterdam is simple; it uses five judges instead of three.

Had this been the set up last weekend, perhaps two more judges would have chosen Brilz over Nogueira and the five judge panel would have awarded the split decision victory to him at UFC 114 instead.

Big Payouts at UFC 114

Memorial weekend saw UFC 114 action at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas which also aired on Spike TV and then became a pay per view event.

The two top salaries of the event probably due to their long simmering feud where the event headliners Rashad Evans and Quinton Jackson who earned the top payouts for the event.

Evans who won the main event walked away with $435,000, almost have of this was win bonus money, and Jackson who earned about $250,000.

The entire payroll for the event was $1.371 million dollars; half of this went to Evans and Jackson.

Other top money makers from the bill included Michael Bisping at $190,000, Antonio Rogerio Nogueirra at $120,000 and Dong Hyun Kim with $64,000.