A bitter Cecil Peoples is tired of hearing the outcry from fans about the main event of UFC 104: Machida vs Shogun. The longtime controversial MMA judge tells MMA Weekly that all the naysayers who don't like his decisions can "go to hell."

"The fans and all the naysayers, I don't worry about. I don't back down because it's not popular. My thing is: Rua did hit him more. But Machida hit him harder, especially in the early rounds. You got to remember, Machida is stepping back, so when he gets kicked, he's getting brushed. But he counters Shogun with a hard kick to the belly. Which one counts more for the exchange? I give it to the [second one], because it was harder. It wasn't brushed. Everybody was expecting him to destroy Shogun like he destroyed Rashad Evans, and he didn't destroy him.

It was a close fight. So people think: [Rua] did good. If he did that good, he must have won the fight. So you in a bar with 200 people that are sloppy drunk, and you're gonna argue with me about the decision? How does that work? Only in America. I give the fight to Machida in a very, very close fight. Now you're pissed off because it's my fault that you lost your money. No, it's not. It's Machida's fault. If you don't like it, you can go to hell."

Peoples has a history of controversial decisions, and he added another on Saturday night when he chose Lyoto Machida over Mauricio Rua at UFC 104: Machida vs Shogun. Perhaps the last major unpopular decision was when Peoples picked Michael Bisping over Matt Hamill in a close TUF grudge match.

Peoples stands by all of his decisions and says that it would take an act of Congress to get him to ever change a ruling.

Source: www.fiveknuckles.com