Overseeing the headlining lightweight attraction between Jim Miller and Nate Diaz will be referee Keith Petersen; judges Romulo Bittencourt, Jeff Blatnick and Dave Tirelli will score the contest. Sherdog.com recently confirmed the assignments with the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board.
The event marks the Las Vegas-based promotion’s second effort on Fox in 2012 and also features a welterweight affair between hard-hitting wrestlers Josh Koscheck and Johny Hendricks. Kevin Mulhall will referee that bout, while Blatnick, Ricardo Almeida and Cardo Urso will decide the fight’s winner should it go the distance.
Bittencourt, Tirelli and Tony Tamburrino will judge Alan Belcher’s middleweight clash with Rousimar Palhares, while Almeida, Urso and Michael DePasquale Jr. score Pat Barry’s heavyweight bout against Lavar Johnson. Dan Miragliotta will serve as the third man in the cage for both contests.
Officials have also been assigned to the preliminary card, which airs on Fuel TV and Facebook prior to the main draw broadcast:
Mike
Massenzio vs. Karlos
Vemola
Referee: Miragliotta
Judges: DePasquale, Tamburrino and Urso
Roland
Delorme vs. Nick
Denis
Referee: Peterson
Judges: Almeida, Tamburrino and Urso
Dennis
Bermudez vs. Pablo
Garza
Referee: Mulhall
Judges Bittencourt, Tamburrino and Urso
Louis
Gaudinot vs. John
Lineker
Referee: Peterson
Judges: Bittencourt, Blatnick and DePasquale
John
Hathaway vs. Pascal
Krauss
Referee: Mulhall
Judges: Almeida, Bittencourt and Tirelli
John
Dodson vs. Tim
Elliott
Referee: Peterson
Judges: Almeida, Tamburrino and Tirelli
Tony
Ferguson vs. Michael
Johnson
Referee: Miragliotta
Judges: Almeida, Blatnick and Urso
Event Inspectors
Giedrius
Karavackas, Munah
Holland, Jose Tabora,
Mike Morrison, Donnie Carolei, Vincent
Sinclair and Vincent Dudley