UFC president Dana White is not happy with referee Todd Anderson’s officiating during the main event of UFC 208, he believes he should never ref a main event again. He also believes the fight between Holly Holm and Germaine de Randamie was not a good one and thinks the wrong person emerged victorious.

“I feel like the ref from New York shouldn’t be reffing a main event fight,” White said on the UFC’s post-fight show. “They don’t have enough experience. He should not have been in there. But again, we don’t make those decisions. The commission does. That was a bad decision by them, and if that guy takes a point for hitting after the bell, it’s a draw. The only possible way this night could be any sh*ttier.

“Everybody was blowing me up on the phone, ‘what’s wrong with this ref?’ and ‘what’s wrong with this ref?’” White added. “What’s wrong with this ref is he doesn’t have big fight experience like that. None of these guys do in this state yet, and they should’ve had one of the experienced MMA refs in there reffing that main event.”

And though the scoring in the main event bout between de Randamie and Holm generated plenty of discussion of its own, White could only offer a resounding “no” when asked whether he was satisfied with the decision being given to Germaine de Randamie. He believes Holly Holm should have won but was also left underwhelmed with the fight as a whole.

“It wasn’t the best fight I ever saw,” White said. “I was hoping that the main event would deliver and erase most of the rest of the night. That didn’t happen. You know me, it’s been a long time since we’ve had a bad show, and they happen. It happens.”

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