Does UFC have big credibility issues? Judge for yourself

Yes, but only after the crowd went nuts and Grice nearly had a heart attack and Black didn't know what the hell to think. Only after all that, only after several minutes, was the mistake caught.

Sad to say, this problem isn't exclusive to Saturday night. At UFC 63 in September 2006, Jorge Gurgel dominated Danny Abaddi and then literally jerked his head in disbelief when the first judge's card was announced as 29-28 for Abaddi. The UFC later amended that decision, saying the judge meant to score the fight for Gurgel.

Meant to. But didn't. Scary.

This has been going on for years. After his UFC debut in 1999, Jens Pulver had his hand raised in victory. Moments later Pulver's glee became gloom when it was announced that a mistake had been made, that his UFC 22 fight with Alfonso Alcarez had actually been scored a draw. Oops.

Now there's the Grice-Black debacle, which wasn't even the only scoring embarrassment from Saturday night. Here were some others from UFC 77:

• Josh Burkman's victory against Forrest Petz was announced as a majority decision, then changed to reflect that it was actually a split decision. As an added bonus, all three judges originally thought Petz's last name was "Perez." On their cards, "Perez" has been crossed out and replaced by "Petz."

• Stephan Bonnar beat Eric Schafer by technical knockout, but the official ballot originally listed Schafer as the winner. Somehow that mistake -- unlike those involving Grice-Black and Burkman-Petz -- was caught before being announced to the crowd.

• Two official ballots listed the wrong referee. Two had a judge wrong. And one judge thought victorious middleweight Yushin Okami's name was Okami Yushin.

Taken individually, each of those smaller mistakes is a humorous footnote. But taken as a whole? On a night when Matt Grice's demolition of Jason Black was originally announced as a draw? This isn't funny.

This is a problem.

It's a big problem, Dana White. Fix your f---ing sport.