LAS VEGAS – Forrest Griffin has had strange nights in the octagon before. But Saturday may have raised the bar.
After his UFC 148 win over Tito Ortiz Griffin bolted the cage and started running back toward the locker room. The early exit prompted UFC president Dana White to leave his cageside seat to chase Griffin down and send him back to the cage.
But if that wasn’t enough, Griffin returned to the octagon, got his hand raised, then took the microphone from Joe Rogan and interviewed Ortiz himself. It was a set of circumstances that drew the ire of both White and Ortiz – and had the sell-out crowd at MGM Grand Garden Arena booing.