Lorenzo Fertitta (picture left) owns the UFC with his brother Frank (picture right) and told UFC referee Big John McCarthy the following about Conor McGregor:
Big John:
“I talked to Lorenzo Fertitta at UFC 197, standing in the back, and we started talking. He said, ‘I never thought that when I had a guy who was guaranteed ten million dollars I would have a problem with him.”
Fertitta’s words can go both ways really, as perhaps paying one fighter such a large amount of money is what’s caused him to act so ‘defiantly’ as they might put it?
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