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Controversial Judge Sal D’Amato, Referee Herb Dean and All Other Officials at UFC 300: Alex Pereira vs Jamahal Hill

Published 04/09/2024, 11:21 AM EDT

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With UFC 300 just around the corner, fight fans are excited to witness the historic UFC event that is set to take place on April 13th in Las Vegas. The fight card features 12 fighters who have once held UFC gold in their career, as well as fighters who have the potential to become champs in the future.

The fight card has shown great promise of delivering some incredible fights because of the matchups. With three title fights on the main card for the anticipated event, there is very little margin for error. And the UFC looks to be making sure that the fights are supervised by some of the most experienced officials. So here are the officials overlooking the UFC 300 title fights.

Referees and judges for UFC 300: Alex Pereira Vs. Jamahal Hill

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The main event of UFC 300 will feature the newly crowned UFC light heavyweight champion, Alex Pereira taking on the former UFC light heavyweight champion, Jamahal Hill. Herb Dean will act as the referee in the fight, with Derek Cleary, Sal D’Amato and Ron McCarthy being assigned as the judges for the fight.

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The co-main event of UFC 300 will feature UFC flyweight champion, Zhang Weili taking on fellow countrywoman and the no.1 ranked UFC flyweight Yan Xionan for the UFC flyweight strap. Referee Jason Herzog will be the 3rd man inside the cage with Mike Bell, Ben Cartlidge, and Chris Lee scoring the fight outside the octagon.

Though the officials for the Alex Pereira Vs. Jamahal Hill and Zhang Weili Vs. Yan Xiaonan was announced, and the officials for the other fights are still yet to be announced. However, there are a few who seem to be worried about seeing Judges Chris Lee and Sal D’Amato scoring the fights in the main event and co-main events of UFC 300. Both Lee and D’Amato had been previously called out by former UFC champion Israel Adesanya after a bad decision after UFC Vegas 74.

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Their call for the fight between Kai Kara France and Amir Albazi, where they decided to award the Iraqi despite most seeing the fight going in favor of the New Zealand Native. France’s teammate and former UFC middleweight champ, Israel Adesanya was one fighter who was quite vocal on the bad decision.

He took to Twitter to call out the bad call and said:

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How do you think that Chris Lee and Sal D’Amato will judge Alex Pereira VS Jamahal Hill and Zhang Weili VS Yan Xiaonan fight at UFC 300? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.

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Imtikokba Jamir is a UFC Writer at EssentiallySports. He is your typical MMA geek who is always on top of the happenings in the sport. Imti’s coverage is not restricted to his favorite fighters, including the likes of Justin Gaethje and Robert Whittaker, but also off-court MMA enthusiasts like the celebrity Mark Wahlberg and former POTUS Donald Trump.
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