Herb Dean collided with a camera while refereeing at UFC Denver.
The veteran MMA official is not afraid to get in the middle of the world’s greatest fighters, and as a result, he’s taken a few accidental hits over the years.
However, what happened during Drew Dober vs Jean Silva was a first for him.
Dean went to check on Dober in between at the end of round two.
The American had suffered a gruesome cut moments earlier, and it ultimately led to the fight being waved off just 88 seconds into the final frame.
After taking a glance at the gash, Dean tried to make a swift exit but ran straight into a cameraman, who was trying to get a shot of the damage.
Dean’s head bounced off the lens and out of frame. Thankfully, he was seemingly unharmed, and the camera was fit to film the rest of the fight.
An awkward moment became a viral sensation when ESPN MMA decided to add a boink noise and shared the footage with their 3.9million followers on Instagram
MMA fans flooded the comment section to laugh at the incident.
One person wrote: “Point deduction for the camera”
Another said: “Herb Dean just unintentionally hilarious for no reason.”
A third person added: “Stop the fight!!!”
Someone else joked: “Now Herb has a gash on his face too.”
Dean was an MMA fighter before transitioning to refereeing in 2002.
The 53-year-old has won ‘Referee of the Year’ an incredible nine times since the category was introduced by the World MMA Awards in 2010.
Dana White, Joe Rogan, and countless fans call him the ‘gold standard’ of MMA officiating – but that may not sit well with other UFC referees.
“For some of them it’s a competitive thing,” Dean recently revealed.
“People want to do this, so it’s competitive sometimes. [There’s] backstabbing. I’m not going to tell you who. Sometimes there’s beef.”
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