Last month, veteran referee Dan Miragliotta found himself embroiled in controversy with Bellator welterweight Michael ‘Venom’ Page over his unprofessional conduct at Bellator 227 in Dublin, Ireland.
Dan was displeased with Page’s in-cage taunting and theatrics (the 32-year-old hilariously pretended to take a selfie while ground-and-pounding his opponent) and is alleged to have called ‘MVP’ ‘a piece of sh-t’ after the fight.
Miragliotta has since apologized for his behavior (taunting has always been a part of combat sports), and fellow veteran referee ‘Big’ John McCarthy admitted that Dan can sometimes get a little emotional ‘when he doesn’t like what someone does’.