Filed under: Featured , News , UFC The most attention referees in UFC fights usually want to have is when the camera points their direction when Bruce Buffer announces their name. But every now and then, a ref finds himself part of the story of a fight, and usually at least one of the sides walks away unhappy. That’s the position veteran official Herb Dean is in in the wake of this past Saturday’s UFC 211 event in Texas. Dean was officiating the lightweight bout between Dustin Poirier (21-5 MMA, 13-4 UFC) and former champ Eddie Alvarez (28-5 MMA, 3-2 UFC), which closed out the preliminary card on FX at American Airlines Center in Dallas. He ruled the fight a no-contest after what he declared were unintentional knees, albeit illegal ones, from Alvarez put Poirier in a position to not continue. The controversy over the ruling started immediately .