a nasty first-round knockout<\/a> of Geoff Neal in Saturday\u2019s co-main event. Afterwards, Medic called for a fight with former welterweight champion Leon Edwards and for it to take place in Medic\u2019s native Serbia.<\/p>\nHowever, Medic admitted immigration issues have prevented him from leaving the United States and implored President Donald Trump to help clear up the situation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got one little problem,\u201d Medic said. \u201cImmigration\u2019s been holding me up and I can\u2019t travel just yet. So this is my plea for help. Mr. President, if you can see this, please, we\u2019ve got to go to Belgrade, Serbia, for the UFC this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Medic, his plea did not fall on deaf ears, as UFC CEO Dana White later invited him to his office to speak to Trump personally. Trump assured Medic that his immigration issues will be taken care of.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs an immigrant it\u2019s a little hard getting things done,\u201d Medic said. \u201cI know how busy they are, almost everyone in the world wants to live in the United States so immigration, it is hard. They have a lot of work to do and my case has been kind of backed up and not moving, so I was just waiting and waiting and waiting and at one point, I mean, I probably could have mentioned before I\u2019ve been five years in the UFC, five years there was no changes. I have work permit, I\u2019m allowed to work, there was travel documents for me to travel. I never felt safe using them because there was COVID and all this bullshit. So I never used them and I didn\u2019t travel, so at this point I was already at the end of my patience and I had to say something and I think it was a perfect opportunity to speak my mind about it. Again, not wanting to knock them down or talk anything bad about them, I know they\u2019re all trying to do their jobs, but I have to use the position that I\u2019m at and I had to mention it because it\u2019s been hard not being able to travel home.<\/p>\n
\u201cLittle did I know I get back, a phone call with Dana White, I\u2019m back in his office, and Dana\u2019s got President Donald Trump on speakerphone and I was just standing there, I cannot believe what\u2019s happening. He said, \u2018You\u2019re good to go wherever you please. Just give Dana the documentation information that you need\u2019 and I\u2019m just blown away.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear how much more bureaucracy Medic actually has to deal with so that he can return home and potentially help White arrange a UFC event in Serbia\u2019s capital, but he was heartened by his conversation with the president, whose wife Melania hails from nearby Slovenia.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just amazing for me to tell him about the situation and how big of a fan I am of him and obviously his wife was from where I\u2019m from,\u201d Medic said. \u201cConsidering where I\u2019m from, even though it\u2019s a different country, it\u2019s like a five-hour drive, that\u2019s nothing for America. You can\u2019t even get out of Texas in five hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m still processing all of it. Dana just made my dreams come true for the second time. Third time. First, was to get signed; second, was to go into the top 15; now, I just got to speak with Mr. President on the phone and he said I\u2019m good to travel. My stuff is done, so it\u2019s going to take a minute for me to just process this. A lot has happened in the past hour.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uros Medic may have cleared one major hurdle in his quest to headline a UFC event in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-498514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}