YouTube<\/a> channel. \u201cHoly smoke, what is he waiting for? Stop it, bro. Damn, Herb. I don\u2019t know how this dude is still refereeing. What is he waiting for?<\/p>\n\u201cYeah, Herb, sometime today, huh? It\u2019s just a fight, no rush. The guy\u2019s definitely fighting back intelligently, Herb.\u201d<\/p>\n
The official time of the stoppage was 4:45 into Round 2, so it\u2019s possible Dean was giving the experienced Hooker time to work out of the position and make it to the bell. Hooker showed little defense, though, other than turtling up as Saint Denis rained strikes down from top position.<\/p>\n
In Masvidal\u2019s eyes, this is far from the first time Dean\u2019s judgement should be questioned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWow,\u201d Masvidal said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to take nothing away from Saint Denis\u2019 performance because it was amazing, but damn, as I\u2019ve said my whole f*cking career, Herb Dean is the worst referee to ever exist. I mean, f*ck, does he suck. Holy smokes, is he bad. A fighter especially like Hooker, though he\u2019s obviously on his way out, he\u2019s not going to quit, he\u2019s not going to tap. You have to take that guy out, but he\u2019s obviously in this position for over a minute and a half and he\u2019s eating shots the whole time from elbows to backfists to the face, getting choked, and then now the guy has obviously no energy because he took all of it to escape the choke.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s stuck in that position, had maybe 15 unanswered shots and still nothing. Still had another 15 unanswered shots. Worst referee I\u2019ve seen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Masvidal clarified that he holds no malice towards Dean, only concern for his fellow fighter and whether Dean\u2014one of the most recognizable referees in all of MMA\u2014is well past his prime.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s nothing personal against him, because as a human being I think Herb\u2019s a great dude,\u201d Masvidal said. \u201cI\u2019ve heard great things, I\u2019ve been around him a lot. As far as refereeing is going, I don\u2019t know what it is, he just don\u2019t got it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jorge Masvidal isn\u2019t holding back with his critique of veteran referee Herb Dean. The longtime in-cage official was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-462918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}