UFC boss Dana White has acknowledged that an incident involving Namo Fazil took place behind the scenes during Dana White\u2019s Contender Series fight week, but declined to disclose details of what happened.<\/p>\n
Fazil alleged last week that he was confronted by a group of Chechens while preparing for his Contender Series bout against Kaik Brito. Fazil said the incident disrupted his weight cut and developed into a physical altercation that ultimately drew police attention.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou guys have no idea how much sh*t goes on in this business behind the scenes and I said at the press conference that we had kind of a weird week here,\u201d said White to reporters, including The Mac Life, after being asked about the incident at the UFC Sacramento post-fight press conference.<\/p>\n
White was also questioned on whether UFC fighter Baisangur Susurkaev would face any consequences after Susurkaev hinted at his involvement in the incident. \u201cI didn\u2019t even talk about it,\u201d said White. \u201cYou guys wouldn\u2019t even know if he didn\u2019t talk about it. We handled it behind the scenes and that\u2019s the business we\u2019re in. Lots of crazy sh*t happens every day in this business.\u201d<\/p>\n
White did not indicate whether any further action would be taken over the incident, maintaining that the promotion had dealt with the matter privately.<\/p>\n
Fazil went on to face Brito in their Contender Series bout, suffering a knockout defeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC boss Dana White has acknowledged that an incident involving Namo Fazil took place behind the scenes during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-869605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869605","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=869605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}