An MMA referee was banished from the rest of the UFC 267 event because of a highly questionable performance
- A UFC 267 welterweight match that occurred Saturday ought to have been stopped within the second spherical.
- However an MMA referee referred to as Yacheslav Kiselev allowed the struggle to go on.
- The UFC pulled him from his different duties at UFC 267 as a result of his efficiency was so horrible.
ABU DHABI - MMA referee Yacheslav Kiselev was relieved of the remainder of his UFC 267 duties due to a questionable efficiency through the preliminary part of the Etihad Area card in Abu Dhabi.
Kiselev was the person within the center for the three-round UFC welterweight battle between Elizeu Zaleski and Benoit Saint Denis which Insider attended Saturday.
Zaleski gained the opening spherical on all three of the judges' scorecards, earlier than performing to such a excessive commonplace within the second, that he was awarded a 10-Eight - a rating reserved for dominance.
Such was the ruthlessness of his talents in that second spherical, he landed an absurd 106 of his 173 photographs, inflicting a large amount of injury with a knee strike and punishing punches that have been nothing in need of unrelenting.
Saint Denis was harm a number of occasions within the contest however simply refused to go down.
To save lots of the fighter from himself, and from taking an prolonged beating by the hands of Zaleski, ref Kiselev ought to have stepped in and waved the bout off.
However he didn't.
As an alternative, he allowed Saint Denis to return to his stool on the finish of the second, and reenter the battleground within the third.
The third spherical, whereas extra even, ought to by no means have taken place because the bout was successfully over within the second.
"Holy hell," established former MMA referee John McCarthy tweeted.
"I simply watched the worst job of officiating at a UFC occasion ever," McCarthy added. "Please don't let him do one other struggle … ever!"
-Massive John McCarthy (@JohnMcCarthyMMA) October 30, 2021
According to ESPN, the UFC "pulled" Kiselev from one other struggle he was scheduled to officiate.
-ESPN MMA (@espnmma) October 30, 2021
ESPN reporter Brett Okamoto reported that Kiselev was imagined to additionally referee the sunshine heavyweight bout Magomed Ankalaev towards Volkan Oezdemir - a 205-pound match that launched the primary card, broadcast on ESPN+ within the US.
A light-weight heavyweight championship bout between the UFC champion Jan Blachowicz and challenger Glover Teixeira headlined the occasion.
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