Alex Pereira isn’t letting go of his vendetta towards referee Herb Dean.
The former light heavyweight and middleweight champion went on the offensive in the days after his loss to Ciryl Gane at UFC White House, blaming Dean for failing to recognize that he was eating several strikes to the back of the head during his fight. Pereira was ultimately stopped following a barrage of shots on the feet, but the multitude of punches and elbows he absorbed on the ground left him in a severely compromised state.
Pereira blasted Dean for not only ignoring what he deemed as illegal blows but the referee failed to admonish Gane or pause the action for the fouls. Now, Pereira is taking aim at the veteran referee again following a controversial performance at UFC Baku on Saturday.
“Herb Dean … coward,” Pereira wrote on Instagram along with an image from the fight between Shara “Bullet” Magomedov and Michel Pereira.
In the fight, Dean warned Magomedov on two separate occasions for pulling Pereira’s hair during exchanges on the ground. In between rounds, Dean went to Magomedov’s corner and explained yet again that his illegal moves wouldn’t be tolerated and one more foul would result in points taken.
Later in the fight, Magomedov poked Pereira in the eye and while Dean paused the action to allow the Brazilian time to recover, he only warned the Russian for the foul and didn’t penalize him any points for the infraction.
Obviously none of that sat well with Pereira, who is obviously doing everything in his power to shine a light on Dean’s questionable refereeing skills.
