Judge who scored Canelo-GGG for Alvarez won't work UFC 216

Adalaide Byrd won't be turning in any scorecards at UFC 216 this weekend.

The judge who controversially gave Canelo Alvarez a lopsided nod in his split draw with Gennady Golovkin last month won't work Saturday's card at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada State Athletic Commission executive director Bob Bennett told MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani on Friday.

Bennett maintained Byrd's absence has nothing to do with her 118-110 tally for Alvarez in the superfight. The much-maligned scorecard had many wondering whether she'd be one of the presiding judges on Saturday's card, although the commission had previously appointed Derek Cleary, Chris Lee, and Junichiro Kamijo to score the main event - an interim lightweight title bout between Tony Ferguson and Kevin Lee - per an early September report from MMAjunkie's Steven Marrocco.

The NSAC executive director had voiced his intention to keep Byrd from working fights of such magnitude for the foreseeable future, and added on Friday that she wouldn't be suspended for her exploits at Canelo vs. GGG.

Byrd has scored over 100 world championship bouts and title eliminators and has drawn the ire of fight fans on more than one occasion for being the dissenting party in several split calls in both the ring and the cage. One such occurrence came nearly five years ago at UFC 155, where she anointed Melvin Guillard the winner over Jamie Varner by a score of 30-27, while both her fellow judges had the same tally going the other way.