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On a night when he stood alone atop the UFC heavyweight division, Brock Lesnar’s behavior -
not his destructive, one-sided victory against Frank Mir -
was the subject of post-fight discussion on Saturday at the
Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
Lesnar unified the heavyweight championship in only his fifth
professional appearance, as he bullied his way to a technical
knockout against Mir - the only man to defeat him - in
the UFC 100 main event. His tirade afterward
- which included a low blow to the UFC’s
primary sponsor, Bud Light, waving his middle fingers at the
audience, taunting Mir and exposing plans for a post-fight sex romp
with his wife - drew the ire of UFC
President Dana White.
The 32-year-old Lesnar claimed he was headed out to drink a
Coors Light because Bud Light would not pay him any money. One of
the UFC’s highest-paid fighters, he made
$450,000 in disclosed pay for his TKO victory
against hall of famer Randy Couture at UFC 91
in November.
“I was blown away,” White said. “I don’t think in the history of
the UFC we’ve had anybody do that. It’s not
who we are, and, to be honest, it’s not who he is. You hang with
these guys personally, and you get to know them. If he was a dick,
I’d tell you right now this guy is a psycho and I don’t know what
I’m going to do with him. He’s not. He’s a smart guy. The
sponsorship thing was the craziest thing I’ve ever heard in my
life.”
Lesnar’s antics drudged up memories of his days as a World
Wrestling Entertainment superstar, when showboating and pushing the
envelope of taste were encouraged and profitable. White claimed he
confronted the apologetic champion in his dressing room after he
left the Octagon.
“Brock went so far over the top, I can’t even put it into
words,” White said. “WWE—that’s what it is. We had a talk. We
talked like men, and he said he was sorry. He said, ‘I’m
embarrassed by what I said.’ I take his word for it this time.”
