Herb Dean sucks. He lets Jon Jones damn near blind people that is why Jon always request him to ref his fights.
Herb Dean is the worst.
BJM wasn’t elite, but he’s no Herb Dean-level of terrible.
Cecil Peoples is Herb Dean’s sensei.
he was annoying as fuck at times, thats for sure.
He is the only ref that had the balls to tell Jon Jones no eyepokes. Jones refused to let him ref his fights.
What are your thoughts on “Stitch” and that black dude who used to obnoxiously yell and “hype” up the fighters.
The amount of chatter and talking during the early fights coming from BJM is shocking
Mark Coleman blasted BJM on Ariel’s show a few months ago
BJM invites Mark on to his show to discuss the issue
- Mark said that he would come on as long as I could come with him to discuss the issue
Needless to say, BJM passed on the proposition
Just a side note
I have been keeping track of every fight that I have found when Bruce Buffer screws up
If anyone is interested in a video editing project, please get a hold of me
I"m drawing a blank. What’s the name of the big muscle bound ref who poked Heath Herring in the eye right before the Lesnar fight?
Big John was pretty over the top the way he would bark at fighters but to his credit he dialed it down a lot later in his reffing career.
I don’t get the love the dude gets. His ego is now on par with Jone Jones, dude lets fights go on way too long.
Miragliotta?
Yeah, that’s him. Poking a dude in the eye before the fight then not giving him time to recover is a pretty bad move.
https://www.instagram.com/fight.recap/p/CEAHV5SpJWd/?img_index=1
John fathered the culture of overly involved refs.
It is because of him that refs behave the way they do with constant early stoppages.
He literally taught the classes.
It’s the hardass cop mentality. Not a normal cop. The type of cop that’ll ticket you for 3mph over AND give you a lecture about it.
How many fucking stoppages have we seen ON THE FEET in the past years? It’s insane.
Refs should behave like firefighters. Stay unseen until necessary.
Cecil and kim would like a chat
I think being a ref in combat sports is incredibly difficult. Either you are completely unnoticed or you’re completely hated. Stop too early, you might ruin someone’s career and a multi million dollar event. Stop too late, you might ruin someone’s life and future. I give refs a lot of grace, because they see things like eyes rolling or guys going limp that not even the camera sees. I especially give Big John a lot of grace because he was basically making up the job as he went. He screwed some things up, but he owned his mistakes and tried to improve as he went. I felt like John tried to be an advocate for the sport when it was close to being outlawed by presenting himself as a no nonsense authority and not a blood thirsty maniac which is what a lot of people expected. Say what you want about McCarthy, but no one ever accused him of being anything less than a serious person.
It moved teh Vaseline as well as poked Heath in the eye. Bad times.
same
I think the best refs make themselves unnoticed.
The ninja