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Dan Hardy responds to Herb Dean’s defense of stoppage: ‘accountability needs to be taken’

UFC commentator Dan Hardy called for greater accountability among referees and a new system for preventing late stoppages in a video response to veteran official Herb Dean.

Responding to Dean’s video defending his stoppage of Francisco Trinaldo vs. Jai Herbert at UFC on ESPN 14, Hardy broke down footage on the fight to back his claim that Dean stepped in late and said his response to the fight was a “human response.”

“I don’t want to do his job,” Hardy said. “I want him to do his job. I want him to be prepared to do his job.