{"id":326867,"date":"2019-10-01T08:07:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=326867"},"modified":"2019-10-01T08:07:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:07:22","slug":"dan-miragliotta-admits-he-called-michael-page-a-fking-piece-of-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/dan-miragliotta-admits-he-called-michael-page-a-fking-piece-of-st\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Miragliotta admits he called Michael Page a &#8216;f**king piece of s**t&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran MMA referee Dan Miragliotta got himself in trouble over the weekend during his officiating of the Michael Page vs. Richard Kiely fight at Bellator Dublin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/bellator-results-michael-page-scores-brutal-flying-knee-ko-calls-out-douglas-lima-video\/\">Page won the fight via first-round flying knee knockout<\/a>, but not before some controversy. Kiely had flipped the bird to Page in the cage, and Page responded by showboating, leading Miragliotta to taking a point away from him for unsportsmanlike conduct, which is a very rare occurrence.<\/p>\n<p>After the fight was over, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/michael-venom-page-accuses-referee-dan-miragliotta-of-foul-treatment\/\">Page accused Miragliotta of foul treatment<\/a>, saying the referee called him an expletive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/10\/1\/20892493\/referee-dan-miragliotta-responds-to-michael-venom-page-ill-never-do-his-fights-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Speaking to MMAFighting.com<\/a>, Miragliotta admits now that he did indeed say some not-so-nice things about Page in the heat of the moment.<\/p>\n<p>According to Miragliotta, he tried to get Page to shake Kiely&#8217;s hand once the fight was over and presumably their feud had ended. According to the veteran ref, Page told him to &#8220;f*ck off,&#8221; and that&#8217;s when Miragliotta swore back.<\/p>\n<p id=\"tpJLqS\">\u201cI was pissed, bro,\u201d Miragliotta said. \u201cI\u2019m 56 years old. I\u2019m a grown man. I\u2019m older than him. I show respect to everybody. When someone says f*ck off like that to me with disrespect, I lost it. I never should have said what I said. And I know I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p id=\"w7b7y8\">\u201cUnder my breath, I turned, and one of his coaches was right next to me, and I said, \u2018What a f*cking piece of s**t.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mohegan Tribe Department of Athletic Regulation president Mike Mazzulli oversaw the event since it took place in Dublin. He reviewed footage from the bout, and ultimately decided he wouldn&#8217;t punish Kiely, Page or Miragliotta for anything they said or did in the fight.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mazzulli did say that Miragliotta will likely never officiate another Michael Page fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Mr. Page performs again, Dan will not be in the cage,\u201d Mazzulli said.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just fine, according to Miragliotta, who has no interest in reffing Page&#8217;s fights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll never do his fights again, because I can never really look at him and not have that animosity toward him, because I\u2019m not going to let somebody tell me to f*ck off, and there\u2019s nothing I can do, and I\u2019m an official,\u201d Miragliotta said. \u201cIt\u2019s not good for me or the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting Miragliotta was also seen shaking his head during Greg Hardy&#8217;s recent TKO victory over Juan Adams, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/video-referee-dan-miragliotta-did-not-look-impressed-with-greg-hardy\/\">something which drew notice by fans and fighters alike<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you make about referee Dan Miragliotta&#8217;s comments towards Michael Page?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 10\/1\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran MMA referee Dan Miragliotta got himself in trouble over the weekend during his officiating of the Michael Page vs. Richard Kiely fight at Bellator Dublin. Page won the fight via first-round flying knee knockout, but not before some controversy. Kiely had flipped the bird to Page in the cage, and Page responded by showboating, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54474,"featured_media":282005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44,10296],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dan Miragliotta admits he called Michael Page a &#039;f**king piece of s**t&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Referee Dan Miragliatta admits things got a little heated with fighter Michael Page at the Bellator Dubin card over the weekend.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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