This guy Mike Tyson! Who woulda thought he’d have the power to change UFC President Dana White’s mind about a $50,000 bonus check?! I mean we know Iron Mike has pull, but Dana White is a different type! Check out this story…
Via YahooSports:
TJ Grant knew that a strong performance against tough veteran Gray Maynard on Saturday would make him a legitimate title contender in the UFC lightweight division.
But little did he suspect that his decisive first-round technical knockout of the cagey veteran would get the attention of the Punch-Out king himself.
Grant used a relentless flurry of fists and knees to score the win over Maynard at 2:07 of the first round of their UFC 160 bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, earning the next shot at 155-pound champion Benson Henderson.
In doing so, he also made a fan of legendary knockout artist Mike Tyson, who helped put an extra $50,000 in Grant’s pocket.
Tyson, who attended the fights, was in the room with UFC president Dana White and co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta after the show when White declared Junior dos Santos’ knockout of Mark Hunt the winner of the evening’s Knockout of the Night award.
That’s when the former heavyweight boxing champ exercised a veto of the UFC boss’s decision.
“Tyson’s like, ‘What? No way. That other kid [Grant] won,'” White said. “Me and Lorenzo were like, ‘Alright.’ What, are we going to say no to Mike? I wasn’t going to argue with him.”
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