UFC Referee Jerin Valel gets fired

The fact that an Assistant Deputy Minister moonlights as a UFC ref in the first place is hilarious. Technocrat by day, cage fighting wrangler by night.

Canadians that have public jobs and have been found travelling for non-essential reasons have been getting canned left and right. Did he even quarantine when he came back to Canada? Probably not.

He didn't get fired though, he just got demoted. Basically his salary went from $125,000 to $110,000 or somewhere in that range.
 
Shelter said:
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A senior Manitoba civil servant was stripped of his assistant deputy minister title after Premier Brian Pallister learned he travelled to Las Vegas to referee a UFC match, but the government refuses to say whether the employee had been granted permission for the travel.

Jerin Valel was hired as the interim assistant deputy minister of transformation as of early March, but was moved back down to his director position this week after the premier learned of Valel's travel for his side gig.

Valel has been refereeing at UFC matches around the world since 2012, and was the referee for multiple matches in Las Vegas before and after a travel ban was issued by Pallister on Feb. 1.

Most recently, he was a referee at UFC 260 on March 27, which was broadcast to millions of people across the world on pay-per-view. "

You dun goofed, Jerin.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ufc-manitoba-travel-1.5986071
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he doesnt work for the ufc
 
Paolo Delutis said:
Great fight man!..way to go overcoming the size difference man...
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Thanks dude! If I continued on it would have been at 145, maybe even 135. I wanted to focus on the fight instead of the weight cut for my debut.
 
Not as if moonlighting as stripper or gigolo.
 
Fluffernutter said:
Honest question:

Have any hockey refs flown from from Manitoba to Las Vegas to work Black Knight's games?

I find it odd that the borders are closed except for those involved in the NHL.
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You know that the NHL did a temporary division realignment just for this season, right? All 7 Canadian teams were put in the same division and each team in the league is only playing within its own division. This way none of the Canadian teams ever have to cross an international border, at least until the playoffs.

I don't actually know if any Canadian refs have done NHL games in the US but I would assume if the teams aren't crossing the border the refs aren't either.
 
Fluffernutter said:
Honest question:

Have any hockey refs flown from from Manitoba to Las Vegas to work Black Knight's games?

I find it odd that the borders are closed except for those involved in the NHL.
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Lol you mean the Golden Knights?
 
SherdogWasNeverMyFriend said:
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I think he was a good ref even tho he didn't react on time during fight ending sequence in the fight from the photo. Hopefully he will find another employment quickly.
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he said he would stop the fight when gaethje faceplanted cowboy, but then went against his word. He is a fraud and a liar. Was prime to work a government position.
 
pizzle said:
I thought this guy was pretty good he was quiet like Jason Herzog but he never had any threads made about him until now so he must've been doing something right.. lol.
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At first I was like who? and then I was like well I don't know who he is so he must not have fucked up a lot.
 
People all over the world getting fired for the dumbest shit while already losing jobs by the fuck load
 
Matthew Fedler said:
Thanks dude! If I continued on it would have been at 145, maybe even 135. I wanted to focus on the fight instead of the weight cut for my debut.
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Yeah man...good ground control... defiantly undersized height wise for 155 but your a big dude haha..

Im from ontario all of our mma shit is shut down right now... watching this makes me want to do my first fight so bad..cant wait till this stuff is gone
 
Paolo Delutis said:
Yeah man...good ground control... defiantly undersized height wise for 155 but your a big dude haha..

Im from ontario all of our mma shit is shut down right now... watching this makes me want to do my first fight so bad..cant wait till this stuff is gone
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Preach brother. I can’t wait to get back on the mats. Bonus footage of my first jiu jitsu tournament:

 
markys00 said:
umm this seems a bit, misleading

he get demoted.... from an extremely high paying job to a very good paying job lolol.

he was made an "example" of... might have been the plan all along. nothing to see here folks.
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He'll still make over 100k a year in MB. Keep his government pension.
 
I don't think its appropriate for the premier to directly interfere in staffing decisions. Otherwise you get decisions based on political optics like this. I think he could have protected himself if he had approval in writing from the deputy minister, and maybe a document from the athletics commision saying that refereeing is essential for the safety of fighters.
 
Paolo Delutis said:
Hes not let go from reffing..its his other job i believe he lost....
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"lost" he got demoted from an amazing position to a great position... this is just a finger wag, a "no no no" for everyone to see. sadly this is someone they can make an example out of... nothing to see here, really.
 
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