(full results here),<\/a> and White was extremely critical of the fighters at the end of the broadcast.<\/p>\n\u201cIt was a weird night,\u201d he told Laura Sanko as they went through the bouts to announce any signees for the UFC. There were only two: Ty Miller and Baysangur Susurkaev. Everyone else got ripped into pretty bad.<\/p>\n
\u201cYuri [Panferov]. Tough guy,\u201d White said. \u201cBut he didn\u2019t show me anything that made me say, \u2018I have to have this guy. This guy needs to be in the UFC.\u2019 Maybe next time, Yuri. Radley [da Silva], I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve ever watched the show or not, but, that is not how you get yourself into the UFC. And when I watched your interview after, you didn\u2019t seem very excited or felt I was gonna say, \u2018Yeah, this guy needs to be in the UFC\u2019 either.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNext time, when you show up at the Contender Series, you\u2019re gonna make me say \u2018I gotta have this guy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c[Neemias] Santana thought it was 1993. Absolute deliberate headbutt to the face. And then some lunatic behind me was screaming and definitely talked Ilian [Bouafia] into fighting and staying in there, but he didn\u2019t come in and fight. The guy, literally after the headbutt, he didn\u2019t do anything. And Santana did a lot of yelling. That\u2019s about it. For a guy who just lost a point, I felt like he should have come out and tried to finish the fight. He didn\u2019t do anything after the headbutt either.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fight was weird. And, yeah, I\u2019m not interested in either one of those guys.\u201d<\/p>\n
White had a strong message for future Contender Series fighters in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
\u201cForget forget about me and the people that are watching. Don\u2019t waste YOUR time,\u201d White said. \u201cThis is your opportunity. We only do this once a year. This is your time to shine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re coming here to the Contender Series and you don\u2019t know how this show works, don\u2019t even waste your time. Call the matchmakers and cancel your flight. You know what we expect here. You know what we\u2019re looking for. And it didn\u2019t happen tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t a compete waste of time, though. White is looking to fast track Baysangur Susurkaev into the UFC ASAP.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy guy, this guy,\u201d White said of Susurkaev. \u201cYou made my Tuesday. I love everything about you. Mick [Maynard]\u2018s already gonna put you in the UFC, like, soon. So hopefully you don\u2019t have any little injuries or anything like that because we\u2019re gonna be seeing you very soon. And and let me tell you what, I haven\u2019t been this excited about a guy in a very long time. I have very high hopes for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWelcome to the UFC, and thank you for saving episode one of the Contender Series.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White was not a happy man following the debut episode of Contender Series season 9. These were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-66506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}