Former WEC bantamweight champion Miguel Torres (40-4) is back with the Ultimate Fighting Championship after he was released earlier this month for a controversial Tweet about “rape vans.”
Torres was on hand for today’s UFC 141 pre-fight press conference in Las Vegas, with UFC president Dana White explaining to the gathered media that the fighter had taken responsibility for his actions, as well as making amends by visiting and donating money to local rape centers.
News, as well as the photo, were provided by MMAFighting.com’s Ariel Helwani who Tweeted (@arielhelwani) the news on Wednesday afternoon.
Dana says Torres is back. Torres has donated money to local rape centers, visited them. Dana says Torres was very remorseful.
Dana says Torres handled his business like a man and no one told him to do it. Torres very emotional.
Torres returns to the UFC after three weeks since he was fired by the top promotion. He is currently 1-1 in his last two and is 3-1 in his last four. Torres was last in action in November at UFC 139, defeating an overweight Nick Pace (who weighed in at 141 lbs for their bantamweight bout), by unanimous decision at the San Jose event. Previous to the win, Torres suffered a decision loss to Demetrious Johnson in May at UFC 130.