Regarding our result for Patchy Mix vs. Shoko Sato: for several years, Tapology’s policy has been not to alter a fight result based on point deductions or penalties imposed for actions outside the fight itself. We record the result produced by the judges’ scorecards.
This policy developed after situations where post-fight or administrative penalties could produce outcomes that we felt were inconsistent, arbitrary, or potentially open to manipulation. To provide the full picture, we built our system to display both the result of the fight itself and any subsequent result imposed by the promotion.
We recognize that no policy handles every situation perfectly. Even before today’s RIZIN event, we had been discussing whether certain circumstances should warrant exceptions to these rules. Today’s unusual situation will certainly be part of those discussions.
For now, we will continue to display Mix-Sato according to our existing policy while clearly noting RIZIN’s official ruling.