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Matt Brown lambastes referee ‘clearly’ favoring Haney over Garcia: ‘You should be fined for that one’

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Ryan Garcia isn’t alone in criticizing referee Harvey Dock after some questionable decisions made in the fight with Devin Haney this past Saturday night.

UFC welterweight Matt Brown unloaded on the referee for his actions, especially in the seventh round. Garcia became the first person to drop Haney after blasting the previously undefeated fighter with a brutal left hook that dropped him to the ground. Haney struggled getting back to his feet, which led to Garcia going for the kill.

Haney held on for dear life but Dock ultimately ended up deducting a point from Garcia to penalize the fighter for punching after his command for a break. Garcia took aim at Dock after the fight, saying the referee was “tripping” and that he “stole” a potential knockout win away from him.

Brown agreed with Garcia’s assessment, especially in that seventh round.

“I didn’t think [Devin Haney] was getting up from it,” Brown said on The Fighter vs. The Writer. “That was the one where he got up and tackled him and the one knockdown that the referee didn’t call.

“Ryan clocked him, Devin falls onto Ryan, Ryan’s holding him up, Ryan lets him go and the f****** referee, you couldn’t be more clearly for Devin Haney than that referee in that round.”

Brown conceded that referees have an impossibly tough job, and Haney and Garcia didn’t make it any easier on him by repeatedly holding onto each other dozens of times.

That being said, Brown believes Dock deserves the criticism he’s received after that seventh round, when Dock made mistake after mistake following the knockdown from Garcia.

“That was a tough fight for him all the way around, but in that seventh round, how he f****** that up so bad,” Brown said. “There’s a point where we understand how hard of a job they’ve got and we’ve got to give them some leeway. But there’s a point where it’s like, that’s some bulls***. You should be fined for that one, motherf*****.”

 

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