Bear Frazer is a spiky-haired, 25 year-old New Yorker with an Eminem flair. Kelly Crigger is a balding, 40 year-old Soldier and self-described curmudgeon. Never was there a clearer dichotomy of prose and after reading just one of these two “MMA Experts’” issues, you’ll feel borderline schizophrenic.

Issue #1 - Is Dan Mirgliotta the worst MMA referee ever?

Kelly - Yes. Miragliotta's stoppage of the fight between Amir Sadollah and Johnny Hendricks was abysmal but ironically it wasn’t surprising. After stopping the Kimbo Slice - James Thompson fight early and then the Brandon Vera – Fabricio Werdum fight, Miragliotta’s place in MMA as “The Premature Kid” is assured. Dude, if you can’t stomach the sight of blood or a fighter getting hit, you need to go sell shoes. I recognize that a ref has a fine line to walk between letting the contest go on and protecting the fighter, but the Hendricks – Sadollah fight at UFC 101 wasn’t even close. Hendricks stunned Sadollah, but he was in the process of getting up and was intelligently defending himself, while Hendricks was punching at thin air. Not a single one of his punches landed on Sadollah's head, so the notion that Miragliotta rushed in to save Sadollah is ludicrous. I cringe and oddsmakers in Vegas shit bricks when Miragliotta enters the cage because they actually need to factor him into their betting lines due to his penchant for stepping in WAY too early. He's single-handedly responsible for a lot of them losing money and is easily the X factor in any fight he refs. Now more than ever we need to bring back Big John McCarthy, but the bigger issue here is the extreme differences between referee’s styles. On one end you have Miragliotta and on the other end there’s Yves Lavigne who’s stopped fights too late on more than one occasion. The inconsistency is only serving to discredit MMA and rob young fighters of hard earned wins.

 
Bear – I’m not sure if he is the worst MMA referee ever, but I can’t honestly think of anyone who is worse. I mean, sure, Yves Lavigne has stopped fights late on more than one occasion, but that zebra-striped savage believes in giving these young warriors a fair chance to recover and fight back. The man lives by a motto called “Let them fight! Let them fight! Let them, OH SHIT! He’s dead! Let me kick him. Oh wait. He’s shaking. He’s alive. Let them fight!” That silly little Yves really needs to just follow his first instinct. Dan Miragliotta, on the other hand, doesn’t even posses one. Remember the Kimbo Slice vs. James Thompson fight? It should’ve been stopped in the second round. Thompson was throwing love taps at Kimbo on the ground for like two minutes straight and the YouTube Superstar just covered up until the bell sounded. Then in the next round, Slice bursts Thompson’s cauliflower ear and it’s time to stop the fight. The next fight “Big Man” Dan officiates, Werdum hits Vera with three lovetaps and the fight is stopped immediately. Seriously? Retarded. There have been other cases over the past year of Miragliotta’s poor officiating and, like you said, the Amir Sadollah vs. Johnny Hendricks bout. From what I saw, I didn’t see Sadollah’s body go limp. Yeah he turned to the side, which is usually an “indication” that a fighter has “had enough,” but then he got right back up. It was a weird, weird end to that fight and, though I...