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    Dan Hardy On Herb Dean’s Late Stoppage: ‘We All Saw The Fight Was Over’

    Peter Knox 19/09/2018

    Dan Hardy says Herb Dean has a terrific track record but did C.B. Dollaway dirty at UFC Fight Night: Moscow. The UFC commentator was calling the action live when Dollaway and Khalid Murtazaliev squared off. Towards the end of the second round, Dolloway shelled up on the ground and absorbed countless unanswered punches. The fans booed, people online were outraged and the commentary team were dumbstruck. Ultimately, Dean waved off the bout between the second and third round after Dollaway was unable to get up. “It’s difficult to criticize Herb Dean because he’s refereed me before and he’s been excellent,” the Englishman told Luke Thomas on Monday’s The MMA Hour. “He’s had an excellent career as a referee so far. I mean, I don’t know what went wrong, to be honest. I think for everyone in the arena who starts to boo, I think we all saw the fight was over.” Should Herb Dean Be Punished? Hardy, 36, chalks up the poor officiating to a momentary lapse. “I feel like Herb did him a disservice there,” he explained. “He could have saved him from at least 10 seconds of punches. He was curled up on his side, then he moved belly down, and for me, that’s too many, when they’re belly down, they’re done.” The one-time welterweight title challenger agrees the blame should fall on Dean. After all, it is the referee’s job is to “save the fighters from themselves and from their ego and pride.” But he does not think the veteran referee should be too harshly punished. “I’m sure there was a conversation with Herb Dean about it, and I’m sure he sees the error in the stoppage now,” Hardy said. “He was even confused at the end. The round ended, and with one arm he pushed Murtazaliev away and with the other arm, he waved the fight off.” “I don’t know, there was a momentary lapse of concentration there for Herb Dean,” he concluded. “And it was very, very dangerous for Dollaway.”

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    Bisping And Silva Twitter War

    Peter Knox 22/12/2016

    Michael Bisping and Anderson Silva have been going at it against each on twitter. Former middleweight champion Anderson Silva fired shots at his former opponent, current UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping, Silva fought Bisping in a spectacular but controversial fight which Silva believes he won and used twitter to prove his point. A photo posted by Anderson Silva (@spiderandersonsilva) on Dec 18, 2016 at 9:18am PST “The day I knocked someone out and ended up losing by points. In the Queen’s land it is no different from Brazil, fighting at home has its advantages! God save the Queen,” Anderson wrote. Silva thinks Bisping got the decision because the fight was in England but Bisping disagrees and fired right back at Silva. A photo posted by Mikebisping (@mikebisping) on Dec 18, 2016 at 9:40am PST “You’re still whining on Instagram about the decision,” he wrote. “Saying I ran the whole time and you knocked me out lol. First off, I backed you up the entire fight and dropped you twice, also I clearly out struck you the entire fight. You landed a cheap shot in the third which dropped me at the end of the round, not KO’d me lol. Man, your so used to everyone bowing down to you, your head is messed up. You lost! Deal with it. A true martial artist should have honor and respect in defeat as well as victory. Also they don’t take steroids, you sir are a fake.” All this stems from round 3 in their fight when Bisping loses his mouth guard, looks to the ref to pause the fight so he could retrieve it and Silva uses that moment to land a perfect jumping knee to his face drop Bisping right at the bell. Anderson feels he should have gotten the knockout, the referee (Herb Dean) did not. In fact, Silva was celebrating his victory and didn’t know the round had ended – and not the fight. The bout continued two more rounds ending in a unanimous (48-47) decision victory for Bisping.   Should Bisping give Silva a rematch?

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