“We’ve never had an incident like today. All hell broke loose out here.”
A “big shit show” of an altercation between multiple fighters backstage at UFC 279 forced Dana White, the league’s president, to call off a highly anticipated pre-fight press conference in mid-session on Thursday. The conference was to be held in advance of 279’s main event, a welterweight bout between fan-favorite antihero Nate Diaz and undefeated rising star Khamzat Chimaev.
White, looking stricken, said he was “in very weird waters” as he announced the cancellation to a booing crowd. He added, “We’ve never had an incident like today. All hell broke loose out here. I don’t know. I don’t even know how to—We stopped it, but we didn’t do a good job of not letting it happen.” It not immediately clear which fighters were involved in the incident, but neither Diaz nor Chimaev made their scheduled appearances at the conference.
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