I believe hardy knows far more of what a knocked out fighter looks like...and just cause dean has been around alot and had a couple of fights where he lost, doesn't mean very much...he's always been a bad ref...hardy was a championship level fighter...he knows first hand what a knockout looks like. and this past fight, that guy was out, the moment the punch landed....anyone familiar with boxing or mma, knows, when a fighter falls back like that, he's out cold...his arms went out in reaction...it's 100% involuntary reaction from getting ko'd...that often happens...I've seen it happen a million times both in boxing and mma...and i'd bet my life, i've been watching boxing far longer than dean's been reffing. iv'e seen ko's from guys like sugar ray robinson, foreman, shavers, tyson, lewis, marciano...I know perfectly well what a KO looks like.
People for whatever reason, have a hard time admitting that dean is a terrible ref....sure, he does good alot of the times, but he has many many bad blunders. far more than yamasaki ever did.