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UFC boss calls off presser for 'safety reasons' - CtrlF.XYZ

UFC boss calls off presser for 'safety reasons'

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The pre-fight property league for UFC 279 was cancelled arsenic soon arsenic it began for information reasons aft an altercation betwixt fighters backstage.

Company brag Dana White pulled the plug connected the event, labelling it an "absolute crap amusement backmost there," arsenic soon arsenic helium deed the stage. "Ask them questions. There's tons of brainsick crap going connected backmost there," helium added.

The property league started with lone 2 fighters arsenic Kevin Holland and Daniel Rodriguez answered a fewer questions from the media alternatively than the six athletes who were primitively scheduled to appear.

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After they faced disconnected and near the stage, White was seen speaking to UFC officials on with information earlier calling it in.

"This ain't going to happen," White said arsenic the assemblage booed. "I apologise everybody. I americium successful precise weird waters here. This has ne'er happened successful the past of this company.

"Trust maine erstwhile I archer you this is the close determination not to bash this property league close now. For everybody's safety, this is the close decision. I apologise. Thanks for coming."

White aboriginal told reporters backstage that the "chaos" was sparked by a particulate up betwixt Holland and UFC 279 main lawsuit prima Khamzat Chimaev, which past erupted into a overmuch larger incidental betwixt athletes and their camps backstage.

"There were aggregate things going connected astatine the aforesaid time. It wasn't conscionable 1 happening that erupted," helium said. "Once it each started erupting, it was a implicit crap show."

The UFC brag aboriginal confirmed 4 of the six fighters Holland, Daniel Rodriguez, Nate Diaz, Chimaev, Tony Ferguson, and Li Jingliang were progressive successful the brawl.

MMA newsman Ariel Helwani reported Chimaev push-kicked Holland successful the chest.

Mike Heck from MMA Fighting: "I conscionable confirmed Ariel's study that Khamzat Chimaev really push-kicked Kevin Holland successful the freakin' thorax which truly popped (things) off."

MMA Fighting reported the fracas was sparked by Paulo Costa, who isn't warring connected the UFC279 card, amid an speech with Chimaev, with the 2 having a warfare of words precocious connected societal media.

Chimaev past reportedly clashed with Holland, and past with Nate Diaz's squad – which was erstwhile h2o bottles were thrown.

Chimaev and Diaz's teams consisted of implicit 100 radical backstage, White confirmed.

The portion proprietor of the UFC said the weigh-ins and the main lawsuit would spell up arsenic planned, but with much of a absorption connected security.

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