(“When I find the fool that stole my chain, I’m gonna whoop his ass.”)
Dana White’s latest video blog is chocked full of cool behind-the-scenes moments from UFC 144 in Japan, UFC on FX 2 in Australia and last week’s TUF Live premiere from Las Vegas.
Dana starts out by explaining why they went with single round eliminator bouts at to decide which fighters made it into the house on TUF and breaking down the format the show will follow from here on out. It will be interesting to see what shenanigans make it on the show and what will happen during the weekly live fight segments.
Rampage makes a brief appearance to explain that he was hurt training and that’s why he didn’t beat that “boring-ass wrestler” Ryan Bader.
One of the most interesting scenes in the video came when White took UFC newcomer Ian McCall aside after his debatable decision loss to Demetrious Johnson to tell him he would be getting an immediate rematch and that MMA officiating is shit. In case you missed it, the fight was actually scored a draw and there should have been a sudden victory round, but because of a scoring error by one of the dudes from the Aussie commission, the fight was given to Johnson at first. As a result of the mistake, the UFC paid “Uncle Creepy” and “Mighty Mouse” both their show and win money on top of their Fight of the Night bonuses — and rightly so.
Dana also stopped to tell Martin Kampmann that he was uber impressed by his hail Mary come-from-behind submission over Thiago Alves. That’s why we love this sport.
(Video courtesy of YouTube/UFC)