Dana White walked into the UFC 334 post-fight press conference at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night and torched the judges who scored Kevin Holland vs. Uros Medic a majority draw.
“That decision is absolutely insane to me,” White told reporters, as captured on the UFC’s YouTube broadcast of the presser. “I’m embarrassed to even tell you what happened to me tonight.” He added that he’d been hosting business guests all night, and he didn’t hedge on the result: “Clearly, Kevin Holland won that fight.”
The welterweight bout went the distance and came back 29-27 for Medic with two cards at 28-28. Even the announcement was a mess. Bloody Elbow reported that Bruce Buffer called it a draw while reading scores that sounded like a Medic majority decision, and a draw was then confirmed as the correct result.
The round-by-round numbers make it worse. Per MMA Mania, Holland dropped Medic in Round 1, outlanded him 19-9 in significant strikes and threatened with several tight D’Arce chokes. In Round 2, Holland led 20-7 in significant strikes, and Medic lost a point for two low blows. All three judges still scored that round for Medic before the deduction, which turned it into a 9-9 round across the board. Chris Lee and Michael Bell gave Holland the first and Medic the third, producing their 28-28 cards. David Bruce gave Medic all three rounds, first round included, which is how a guy with a point deduction ends up winning a card 29-27.
White also brought up his son, who got stranded in Cincinnati when the airspace shut down and texted him in disbelief asking how Holland had lost. White said he hadn’t even realized the result went that way, because in his view there was no way he lost that fight. Bloody Elbow also quoted White saying that, from what he understood, a judge applied the point deduction to the wrong round.
It wasn’t his only scoring gripe of the night. Bloody Elbow reported that White believes heavyweight champion Ciryl Gane was the rightful winner of his main event slugfest with Josh Hokit.
Holland now sits at 3-2-1 over his last six fights and closes 2026 at 1-0-1. That timing stings more than usual. During fight week, Holland revealed he’d signed what he expects to be his final UFC contract, and he plans to retire once it’s done. When you’re counting down your remaining fights, losing a win to a scorecard costs a lot more than a line on Sherdog.
Medic, for his part, still had a strong year, highlighted by a nasty knockout of Geoff Neal and his first UFC main event win in his home country of Serbia.
My take: Medic doesn’t deserve the heat here. He came to fight. But a 29-27 for the guy who got dropped, got outstruck 39-16 over two rounds and got docked a point is closer to a typo than an opinion. And when the boss of the company is the one calling it embarrassing on the record, maybe Holland’s short list of remaining fights should include a rematch where three people actually watch Round 1.
