Carwin: ‘Maybe Miragliotta is a big Mir fan’

In the UFC 111 fight for the Interim Heavyweight championship, highly experienced referee Dan Miragliotta was criticised for breaking up what appeared to an active pin on the cage wall by Carwin, appearing to favor Mir. However, Miragliotta was massively criticised for allowing a prone and unresponsive Mir to take a number of thunderous blow to the head at the close of the fight.

Here is what the new Interim Champion had to say:

“I was confident in the game plan my coaches crafted. I would never call getting in the cage with Mir “easy” and I trained for the war I was expecting. I felt I was busy and I knew I was just going to try to pin him again so (the referee break) did not affect me too much. It was really weird as Dan was quick to break up the action but he seemed to let Frank get punched longer than necessary. Maybe he is just a big Mir fan.”