{"id":959479,"date":"2026-11-05T16:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/959479\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T16:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:44:10","slug":"the-great-divide-who-is-mmas-worst-referee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/959479\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Divide: Who is MMA\u2019s worst referee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know we complain about officiating way too much, and it&#8217;s an sadly thankless and low-paying job for the vast majority of MMA referees, but when something like Dan Miragliotta&#8217;s wild standup at UFC Vegas 123 happens, we need to have a conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Off the top of my head, Miragliotta and the once-excellent Herb Dean come to mind as the worst referees currently patrolling the cage, but I&#8217;m sure you all will have other suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>So we ask, who is the worst MMA ref right now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I know we complain about officiating way too much, and it&#8217;s an sadly thankless and low-paying job for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":959480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[1857,42717,49,48,641,701,638,211425,248131,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-959479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-bellator","tag-bellator-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-mvp-mma","tag-mvp-mma-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}