Little could dampen Dana White’s spirits at UFC 300 and he even shrugged off a potential lawsuit.
The UFC CEO was on cloud nine after putting on a historic night of fights, which included ‘the greatest KO of all time’ from Max Holloway, in Las Vegas on Saturday.
However, UFC 300 was marred by an ugly incident involving Arman Tsarukyan.
The lightweight contender had a scuffle with a fan as he walked to the Octagon ahead of his fight with former champion Charles Oliveira.
Footage from inside the T-Mobile arena showed Tsarukyan landing a punch on a fan before recording the biggest win of his career minutes later.
He was seen lunging at another supporter as Jon Anik said on commentary: “Couple of dust-ups there DC with fans.
“Looks like Arman Tsarukyan getting into it with somebody on the way in tonight.”
Daniel Cormier added: “Yeah it’s crazy to see him do that.
“You want to be so locked in. That has to be something that matters to Arman, what happened to him on the way to the Octagon.”
Despite his wild pre-fight behaviour, Tsarukyan was able to survive several submission attempts and pick up a split decision victory against ‘Do Bronx’
The Armenian fighter immediately called for a shot at lightweight champion Islam Makhachev, who beat him by unanimous decision when they clashed in April 2019.
White quickly confirmed that a rematch won’t happen anytime soon as he confirmed Makhachev will face Dustin Poirier in June before also announcing Conor McGregor’s comeback date.
The MMA mogul was asked for his reaction to Tsarukyan’s fight with a fan and because he was in an extremely good mood he gave a hilarious answer.
“Yeah, you might not wanna hang over the thing and grab people as they are walking out,” White said at his UFC 300 post-fight press conference.
“These guys are all f***ing hyped up and whatever.
“We are probably going to get sued, we’ll deal with that on Monday too.”
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