Dean: Officiating needs to match MMA’s growth
There’s no shortage of complaints when it comes to the judging and refereeing of MMA. Herb Dean is widely considered…
There’s no shortage of complaints when it comes to the judging and refereeing of MMA.
Herb Dean is widely considered one of the best officials, though, and he’s trying to improve the situation through his referee school.
I think the sport has grown tremendously, and the officiating needs to keep up, Dean told the Sherdog Radio Network’s Savage Dog Show. There’s a lot of things in officiating that we can change, and the best thing that we can do is first of all, make sure we’re all on the same page. I think that’s what these training courses do. The other guys who do training courses, we talk about it. We make sure we’re on the same page. So then when people go through training, now there’s mechanics that are accepted and there’s the right way to do things and the wrong way to do things. Now people are learning that.
