00:00One of the more egregious officiating and refereeing jobs done in recent like MMA history and actually like all MMA
00:10history, right?
00:12Like really the referee's job is just to sort of stay out of the way, make sure people don't grab
00:16the cage and for the safety of the fighters stop a fight.
00:20And you're not, you know, supposed to affect the fight, so to speak.
00:25So of course, Moikanto gets stood up.
00:28I like his honesty after Tom in which he said, you know, I'm not saying I would have won the
00:34fight for sure, but, you know, that didn't help.
00:38And he ends up getting dropped in the next round after.
00:41What did you make of Mergliata?
00:44I brought this up earlier, but just briefly, guys.
00:48When my boy Heath Herring fought Brock Lesnar, Mergliata was the referee.
00:54And this isn't talked about, whatever.
00:56And similar situation.
00:58Brock Lesnar was going to beat Heath Herring at that time.
01:01It was what it was.
01:02But I don't know if you noticed, Tom, when right before the fight, they were face to face.
01:08Mergliata poked Heath in the eye.
01:11I remember that.
01:12Yeah.
01:13He said, are you ready?
01:14And he poked like, how do you do that if you're a referee?
01:16Like, how do you, the other thing is, too, like, he's a big guy, too, like a tall guy.
01:21Like, how, like, how do you poke a fighter?
01:24Like, you saw Heath right away was like, oh, then the fight starts and he gets punched in the face
01:28after.
01:29Mergliata has been, like, the worst.
01:31People pick on Herb Dean a lot.
01:33Herb Dean lets people get beat up too long.
01:35That's Herb's thing, right?
01:37Like, Herb should stop fights quicker than he does.
01:39Okay, fine.
01:40You look back.
01:41Remember Eve Levine?
01:42He's not around anymore.
01:43I forgot about him.
01:44It just popped in my head right now.
01:45Eve Levine, if you guys remember, referee from Quebec.
01:49He used to be known for stopping fights too quickly.
01:52It was like, dude, man, the guy's going to, you know, he's fine.
01:55He's fine.
01:56And he was, like, overly cautious.
01:58Herb Dean just sort of, like, stands there and watches guys get murdered sometimes.
02:02But Mergliata has been terrible at his job for years.
02:05He really has been.
02:08Yeah, and, you know, it's a tough job to be a ref.
02:11But, you know, you make it easier on yourself by not getting involved in situations.
02:17Like, I've never seen a stand-up from the back.
02:20You just can't do that.
02:21This is mixed martial arts at the end of the day.
02:23I don't care if the Apex crowd is booing or the crowd, you know, in an arena is booing.
02:29A guy has back control.
02:31If you can't get out of that position, you, first of all, to me,
02:35there really should never be stand-ups.
02:37This is mixed martial arts.
02:39Wrestling's involved.
02:40Jiu-Jitsu's involved.
02:42And when a guy has another guy's back and he can't get up, he shouldn't be rewarded.
02:46Like, he should not be able to get up.
02:48And also, Moicano was nasty on the back.
02:52We saw Tom Nolan was surviving, was doing great, defending all the chokes.
02:57But it could take one second for that choke to slip in.
03:01It could happen with 10 seconds to go in the round, and he could be asleep at the end of
03:06the round.
03:06It could happen at any point.
03:08You never, you can't stand these guys up.
03:11And, you know, going into the third round, if Moicano doesn't sub him, maybe he does get knocked out.
03:17He did look like he was slowing down.
03:19You know, Nolan was having success on the feet.
03:22Moicano maybe does get knocked out in the third round, but you cannot take a guy out of a dominant
03:27position like that.
03:28It's just, you just can't do it.
03:30And there wasn't a ton of time left on the clock.
03:32You know, another minute and a half, two minutes, whatever it was, of back control.
03:37Next round, they're on the feet again.
03:39He's got a chance to knock him out.
03:41We got five rounds to do this.
03:42So, that stand-up to me.
03:45When it happened, I couldn't believe it happened.
03:48And, yeah, to this, right now, I still, I can't believe it.
03:51You cannot take a guy off of somebody's back.
03:53You just can't do it.
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