“I go in the back after the fight to tell the kid [Angel] it was an awesome fight and that he was going to get his win money and his ear is hanging off and he’s crying. He could give a f*** about the win money,” White said. “Angel says to me that ‘I want to be in the UFC so bad, I said, ‘Dude you’re right up my alley.’”
“He wanted to win this fight so bad, how bad do you think he’ll want to win his first UFC fight?”
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Three of the four athletes from those two bouts had to go directly to the hospital, making it a strange moment where White wasn’t able to actually announce to the fighters that they made it to the UFC. To White, that’s a testament to those athletes and how much heart and toughness they brought into the Octagon.
“You either have that dog in you or you don’t, and both the girls and the guys have truckloads of it,” White said. “Tonight, signing both of the people who lost is what this show is all about.”