Referee Mario Yamasaki not assigned for UFC 224 in Brazil

Mario Yamasaki won’t be the third man in the Octagon at UFC 224 — and it looks like he won’t step back inside the UFC cage ever again.
Speaking with MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani during Thursday’s UFC 223 media day in Brooklyn, NY, Michael Chiesa revealed that he was informed by UFC official Marc Ratner that the Brazilian referee wouldn’t “be anywhere near the Octagon ever again.”
Yamasaki was criticized by fighters and UFC president Dana White man