X<\/a>. \u201cWe will reverse and classify these as exhibition. We look forward to many colorful replies on social media about how stupid we are. Thank you in advance. But above all we want to be fair and get this correct. We add hundreds of fights daily to Tapology and try to evaluate them consistently. This is difficult to do given the different kinds of fights and circumstances that are sent our way. One category of fight that we have been getting far more strict about is EXHIBITION fights.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cFor the last several years we have been very restrictive about allowing fighters or leagues to claim exhibition status,\u201d Tapology added. \u201cIt has become a loophole for keeping legitimate fights off of records. It allows fighters to compete in otherwise professional bouts without it counting. As a result, new events being sent to us, even if a reality show format, are generally not exempt from counting on Tapology win\/loss record. This is the standard we applied to reviewing the \u2018Ultimate Pelea\u2019 events that we found footage of this week.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s not fair and not consistent is that we are applying a roughly 2023-forward framework to a 2017 event,\u201d Tapology said. \u201cIf this event had been reported to us in 2017, we would have certainly accepted it as exhibition at that time. This is the crux of how we agree we were incorrect when we classified these yesterday. We apologize for the sh*t storm and we appreciate all the interesting feedback we received. Yes, some of the feedback was fairly dumb. But some of it contained good and helpful arguments.\u201d<\/p>\n
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