10 Biggest Ref Overreaches In MMA History 

He’s my favorite and he also reminds me of the cool math teacher you had in high school

Herzog is my boy. Been saying for awhile now that he is the best 👍🏻

I think he's the best by a mile.

Yeah he’s one of the best .. until he makes one mistake and everybody turns on him

Been saying that for years. Hence why nobody's talking about him, cause he's a great ref.

And it looked pretty graceful too!

I was about to say this. That man is the true MVP.

Theres a couple of Thai refs who do it on the reg. Love to see it.

One cannot say the same in regards to your grammar.😵

@@jameshughes525 lol says the man editing comments at 11 o clock at night.

Reminds me of a guy I worked with a long time ago. He could barely walk or work. Then a high school kid started working with us. He said that the guy was a high school basketball ref. He would run with the action with no problem.

@@charleshodgdon6168 so he was just faking it at work? Or did basketball miraculously make him healthy

My dad was the ref for rugby matches we had when we were kids for a good 11 years. He’s a fair bloke, if anything was harsher on me because I was his kid. Best ref I’ve had in a sporting competition.

@@aprayingatheist2378 It might’ve been playing for a minute would’ve been worth sacrificing his body, and experiencing pain for those couple minutes. The psychological part would be kinda cool to hear about, if his condition isn’t something like say brittle bones, compression fractures, nerve damage or those types of issues. I can’t remember what it’s called, but some people “hiccup” on their golf swing. Charles Barkley ( just coincidence) has had his issues very well documented about how even though he played golf for years suddenly when he’d try to swing right before hitting the ball he’d spaz out. It wasn’t a physical thing, and he’s dealt with all sorts of pressures, he tried many different therapies from what I recall. But it’s just kinda crazy how the human body works. Even when people don’t have structural issues.

Hope that man is still doing what makes him happy

True dude messed up

Best comment on RU-vid Most accurate too

And awarding the fight to silva instead of going to the scorecards. Sonnen won rds 1-4 silva wond rd5. So 49-46 on the scorecard

Also the judges registered Chael patting Silva as having lost that fight, when under the Unified Rules of Sonnen, he only lost THAT ROUND.

Never lost a round that man

Agreed. If it had continued Taylor Wily/Teila Tuli would have been the first maiming in UFC history. Gerard Gordeau is known now as a dirty fighter, back then though. He was just another fighter. He was literally seconds away from being stomped like Kevin Rosier got stomped in the next round of the fights.

He had the right as being a decent human. The narrator even says how the UFC was a scam thought up by the gracies to trick people into believing their style was superior. These two fighters had nothing to do with the scam beyond being other hand picked fighters with little to no ground fighting experience to abuse. To me the gracies with their dirty fighting, shady rules, and their lack of morals to steal a win is a black eye the UFC will always have.

@@ftniceberg874 The ol Gracie conspiracy eh

@@ftniceberg874 was it a trick to make BJJ look superior or was the BJJ just actually superior to different fighting styles at the time. This was a time when people thought karate was the most effective fighting style so yeah they wanted to showcase BJJ to the masses because it was relatively unknown. They picked the scrawny Royce Gracie to show that a smaller man can win a fight against a much bigger opponent with their style. Ken Shamrock was a wrestler so they didn't pick all bums with no ground fighting experience for the tourney. Art Jimmerson was a legit boxer nobody was stopping him from punching Royce lights out before getting taken down. I mean look at what just happened with Oliveira and Gaethje last week. Literally a perfect example of BJJ being more superior than striking/wrestling, it's not a scam it's just the truth. It doesn't happen every time (Ryan Hall vs Topuria for example) but let's not pretend they were trying to trick people.

@@salbonpensiero1704 gordeau was supposed to fight gracie in the first fight, when they found out his credentials they changed the match up

Damn, son.

brilliant dan

Good man...... good man

Can you find out where my ex gf lives and if she's seeing anybody? Names, addresses, times, etc?

Lmaooo 💀

Holy shit, why wasn’t this investigated 😟

Was waiting for that one, expected it to be #1

he's the worst ref imo. to stand MVP up while ground and pounding bc you don't like taunting, then take a fucking important point, then say bc he is the ref that he won't win if he taunts is absurd. he's done too much bs over the years. most recently it wasn't even his reffing that was bad, Colby was legit shoot talking to Usman saying some cool things about respect/selling the fight and he breaks it up and says "you can kiss later, get out of here, nobody wants that". fuck off. these two men shared near 50 minutes of crazy battle and he has to get his words in? fuck off

Well the list was for Ref's that overreach; they have seperate lists for refs that just do straight-up fucking clown shit. Yamazaki is sitting firmly on that one 😄

Dan is the worse

Tyron woodley from being champ in 2019 to losing to jake paul twice 2 years later

Off the top... Weidman, Woodley, Barao, Ronda, Hendricks, and im sure a few more that aren't coming to me right now

Cody

Cody Garbrandt :{

Fedor, arguably. Depends on if it's a UFC only list, obviously, and it's not like he's never won a fight since he lost to Werdum. But he certainly wasn't the same. The idea of him losing to Bigfoot Silva would have been unthinkable just shortly before it happened.

it wasn't even something to enforce, there were just no rules against elbows or fists to the back of the head, same with groin shots, headbutts, the soccer kicks and stomps you pointed out, etc.

You’re right. Especially considering Gerard is a trash human being.

From a humane and sensible perspective YES great stoppage , from the rules he was specifically given , not so great of a stoppage. I agree with you tho js

Yeah kinda baffled that ones on the list, "yeah he just had 3 teeth kicked out of his mouth, but he still wants to fight so lets go", what if Tuli's corner never threw in the towel, and he never tapped or went out. Should the ref have stopped the fight after his body stopped twitching? Would've been neat to have the first mma death in UFC 1 I guess.

@@Chicken-Chaser agreed whole-heartedly

Cowboy Oliveira is grappling against Maia soon

why did the cut him?

@@Chuckichanly They didn’t cut him. He fought his contract out and didn’t resign

He got cut?

@@thesilentassassin1167 yep

@@thesilentassassin1167 his holland fight was his last fight on his contract and he wasn't re-signed. He wasn't cut

@@dubblerbubbler7350 semantics man

@@thesilentassassin1167 Yeah, yesterday the news came out.

whenever i see trigg reffing, i feel more at ease, not to say he couldn't make a wrong call either, but well experience says it all.

That shit really messed with my head. Seeing him ref that first fight. Thought i was in the twilight zone

Herb is pretty fair.

For sure. Like the situation shouldn’t have happened but it wouldn’t be fair to have penalized Silva but also it wouldn’t have been fair to Mike to give him the loss and no allow him to keep fighting cause he had no mouth guard and was not defending himself and trying to get it back

MMA On Point was MMA Fail in this video. I can tell he didn't watch the full fight because Jon Jones should have been DQ'ed 2 or 3 times in that fight. Jones grabbed Hamill's shorts, was holding the side of the fence, grabbed the top of the fence, hit him in the nuts, illegal elbows, & eye-poked him.

actually we'll never really know if matt could have continued. maybe he could have. steve mazagatti asked him if he could continue and he didnt asnwer back, because well..... hes literally deaf lol. maybe if someone signed language to him he might have said yes.

@@romardelacruz6462 Luckily for his win bonus, he didn't get to answer. LOL. Still the only person to hold a win over JJ.

@@TheScottronica ah win is ah win !!! lmao he gets to say he beat JJ via head butts to his elbow lololol

in MMA you traditionally would be issued a warning possibly two before a DQ

The fact he was fighting at "home" helped sway that decision

Lol no

@@youknow2849 shut up with that crap. It's the non-British judges that give him the decisions. Location is irrelevant

@@youknow2849 Bisping won 3 of the 5 rounds. One of them even being after the knee.

@@youknow2849 lol the judges weren't British though nimrod

You have him the full 15 minutes .. good Man

MMA On Point was MMA Fail in this video. I can tell he didn't watch the full fight because Jon Jones should have been DQ'ed 2 or 3 times in that fight. Jones grabbed Hamill's shorts, was holding the side of the fence, grabbed the top of the fence, hit him in the nuts, illegal elbows, & eye-poked him.

The worst moment of Jones' DQ loss was how, after stopping the action, Mazzagatti walks over to Matt Hamill (who is deaf, and currently has blood in his eyes) and verbally asks him if he is ok to continue. When Matt doesnt respond, Mazzagatti waves off the fight.

@@KariThomasMiller Jones is garbage

@@KariThomasMiller What's worse than that is that Matt couldn't explain all the fouls Jones did to him to the ref. Otherwise, he would have been DQ'ed sooner in the fight.

Both were shite decisions

This comment made me sad

Probably for the best. Cowboy is a legend but he needs to retire, no need to take needless damage at his age

@@tsunax1400 they mean cowboy Oliveira not Donald cerrone

@@zippy2707 Oh, didn't know that. I mean that sucks but tbf he was 3-7 in his last 10 and lost his last 4, which is generous by UFC standards

@@zippy2707 both should retire

And how he was a shot ref that fight

Herb saw the mouth guard come out and let the fight continue. That was a total fuck up on Herb's part.

@@randylahey5463 not at all, you have to pick the mouth piece up and you don't need to stop the fight to do so. You have to protect yourself at all times and Bisping didn't

you're missing the point, that's not the fuck up, the fuck up is letting the fight continue afterwards

@@fiansomalone1917 if he had protected himself herb dean would have been able to stop the fight. He took his attention off his opponent and got caught. If herb stopped the fight to give bisping his mouthpiece after he got rocked it would have been wrong on andersons part. He picked it up, waited for them to seperate and before he could step in, anderson threw his shot, seeing bispings attention elsewhere. sucks for bisping but anderson capitalized.

@@fiansomalone1917 not the fuck up at all bisping was never out, literal definition of saved by the bell

Eye pokes are always considered accidental. Take it up with the ufc. It kills you that Jones didn't lose huh?

this dude LOVES attention. Did the same thing when Oliveira got his belt against Chandler, Dana wrapped the belt around Do Bronx and it slightly grazed his pants he pretended he got hit in the balls to steal the camera focus. Drama queen.

@@elfamosourienmain3009 you’re over selling the moment. He definitely got grazed and then he laughed it off and walked away. Definitely wasn’t trying to get camera time.

Bro chill out he had to separate them so they could get ready to announce the result of the fight, it isn’t that deep

@@spelunkingmonkey7630 nah, even Joe said Dan got uncomfortable, mofo blushed laughed, shook his head and separated two fighters who were clearly having a sportsmanship moment right there Which is HIGHLY unusual for a person who never breaks character in Colby

“Which basically put him unconscious, at least for a brief second”. You always this overdramatic?

@@Jamesfrancosdog oh, yes! I am very overdramatic. In fact me and Tana Mongeau have the same acting coach.

Had the fight continued from there he would have been brutally KOed. You’re right, I wish they didn’t stop it 😂

@@markus7166 maybe but it was all a mess, the round ended straight as Silva was in the air so fair play he was saved by the bell but bisping won the next round

Yeah agree

you don´t have to defend yourself against a half-conscious fighter trying to wrestle, not punch, you by putting them even more at risk. At no point was the well-being of the ref threatened.

No doubt. That dude wanted to beat the shit out of him thinking he was his opponent. Of course he needed to defend lmao the fact that it’s on this list is criminal

They don’t dox pay though for shot clock violations tho

It's also illegal in MMA in the unified rules.

I don't like the guy or his antics but that was seriously funny.

agreed, was hopeing someone else brought it up. regardless of what happened earlier in the fight.

@@ROTAR666 No warning?

That's impossible to predict. Anyone would be lucky to get 1 or 2 right

@@Dukeflyhawker That's part of the fun

IIRC, the thing is that because the action was stopped on a penalty, even though the damage beforehand was more impactful to him not being able to continue, by the rules its a DQ loss if the fighter can't continue. Same thing came up recently with Diego Sanchez didn't it? Where he used that rule to get a much easier victory rather than continuing to fight. And lets be honest, with all of the rule breaks Jones does he should have around 5 losses due just to eyepoke DQs and point deductions.

MMA On Point was MMA Fail in this video. I can tell he didn't watch the full fight because Jon Jones should have been DQ'ed 2 or 3 times in that fight. Jones grabbed Hamill's shorts, was holding the side of the fence, grabbed the top of the fence, hit him in the nuts, illegal elbows, & eye-poked him.

And Lesnar broke his orbital bone with the first punch of the fight! The eye poke was an omen….

And it was his last fight too. What a tragic way to end his career. That guy made the HW division so much fun and was always a threat to beat even the top guys

@@Dukeflyhawker damb

@@Dukeflyhawker damn

@@bastard342 Damn indeed. I really liked what Herring what brought to the division

anderson showed clearly he was still in range to finish the fight hence not an apropriate time to stop the action especially when bisping is on the cage getting measured by the black line from anderson fucking silva.

As always it was Herb's fault. Well his and Bisbings.

Silva handed that fight to Bisping. 100% his fault. As much as I dislike Herb he isn't to blame at all.

Karma for Bisping.

Anderson did nothing wrong, you’re supposed to protect yourself at all times and he was definitely out for a minute so ofc Silva thought it was over

"Fully locked" lmao he was slipping out of every sub attempt

I remember myltiple people were trying to tell anderson the fight was not over but he was like acting not to listen

@@amirlee6431 yup.

He's also immediately talking to herb after the buzzer

@@lochiex1 ya but he lost a eye which is a bitch move

Exactly. I don't even know why he would list that fight. Herb Dean made the right call. Silva is the one who started acting like a complete jacka** even though the ref at no point in time, waved off the fight.

@@one0onelion248 it was listed here because of Herb's actions, but there's no doubt about that Michael was never been out after that knee. if he was out he won't have a chitchat with Herb after that brutal knee he took that change the tide of the fight in favor of Silva.

Scrolling to see if anyone has said this. Bisping most definitely was not out!

@@jcar4lifemancity4life5 yes, cowboy Olivera got released

@@jcar4lifemancity4life5 this video talks about alex "cowboy" oliveira who just parted way with the UFC not charlie olives lol 😂😂

@@lolwizard1 bro really confidently called Charlie Olives Cowboy lmfaooo

Add Marc Goddard in almost every fight he refs nowadays

Bit of a dick move by MVP. He's already outclassing his opponent. No need to add insult to injury. Reminds me of BJM take on the no foul language rule. He said he wouldn't enforce the rule unless the guy losing is being called a bitch or either party uses a homophobic or racial slur.

He’s not their dad out there

@@kannyradotv3241 you right. He’s the ref. He has consistently more power and should be given consistently more respect.

Thought his warning was fair. Mvp was just being a clown rather than looking to finish an outmatched fighter. It wasn’t funny, just cringe

@@kannyradotv3241 You're right. I AM. And I'm grateful Dan Miragliotta ended that hooliganism right quick.

99.9% of the population today are fragile snowflakes who can easily be destroyed by words

The problem is fighters already like to bounce in front of each other without doing ANYTHING so for them to chat shit to each other whilst bouncing around in front of each other is kind of a piss take to the fans that fucking pay money.

Bisping was winning the fight upto the knee

@@joshthemigpro1733 he even dropped Silva as well a round before, as far as knockdowns go they were even

@@kingt0295 I know I watched it

@@joshthemigpro1733 that’s crazy mate so did I 🤜🤛

Not even really overkill, he handled it quickly and effectively considering he was a good bit smaller than the fighter and nobody was trying to help him

Yes a legendary POS who is extremely unprofessional little man and unable to tuck his ego. The fighter was out and confused it’s not like he got attacked by a fully conscious man

I came here to pretty much say the same thing. Ped's are no joke even if used in the past it gives a huge strength advantage

Found DCs RU-vid account 😂

You’re racist asf

When i was watching the fight I was confused to why Dan even took a point considering MVP has done something similar in all his fights without even being warned, just makes Dan look like a dick

Dan is a bad ref. Watch Kimbo vs Thompson. Wouldn't be surprised if he was paid off on that one

Oh for sure! I noticed that in the Colby-Usman fight where he separates the fighters and make the mid-octagon talk between fighters all about himself starts laughing and says to both Kamaru and Colby: "go kiss later LOL" Like bro, GTFO, your job is done, let the fighters show sportsmanship.

MVP should have a point deducted every round just for being MVP.

@@toyotaecw I feel like you're trying to insult him, but that'd almost be a fair handicap for the Bellator competition he's beheading.

awww.... Well you got to make the vids now mma on point!

agreed