{"id":768300,"date":"2026-06-29T18:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768300\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:35:12","slug":"dana-white-reacts-to-herb-dean-controversy-comments-on-alex-pereiras-petition-to-have-longtime-ref-tossed-from-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768300\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White reacts to Herb Dean controversy, comments on Alex Pereira\u2019s petition to have longtime ref tossed from UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">That\u2019s a decision that can only be made by the athletic commissions where Dean is licensed and \u201cPoatan\u201d would need to establish a level of incompetence that proves Dean is unfit for duty. I\u2019m not sure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-white-house-2026-fight-card-start-time-full-results-dana-white-conor-mcgregor-cbs-mma\/451361\/alex-pereira-destroys-referee-herb-dean-for-missing-illegal-strikes-at-ufc-freedom-250-hes-not-a-real-man\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a couple of missed fouls<\/a> in the Brazilian\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-white-house-2026-fight-card-start-time-full-results-dana-white-conor-mcgregor-cbs-mma\/450592\/ufc-white-house-results-ciryl-gane-denies-alex-pereiras-triple-champ-dreams-with-violent-barrage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC White House loss to Ciryl Gane<\/a> is the smoking gun Pereira wants it to be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI don\u2019t know &#8230; I don\u2019t know the answer to that question,\u201d said UFC CEO, Dana White, when asked if Dean \u201clost a step\u201d over the years. \u201cThat\u2019s not up to me, that\u2019s up to the commission. I heard about [Pereira\u2019s petition]. There is no MMA in my algorithm. Unless [someone] tells me, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Here\u2019s the clip from Sunday\u2019s Zuffa Boxing presser:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That\u2019s a decision that can only be made by the athletic commissions where Dean is licensed and \u201cPoatan\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,125620],"class_list":["post-768300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-white-house-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768300","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=768300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}