The UFC broadcasting team has jokes.
UFC 318 will be rid of New Orleans this weekend, Louisiana, a pay-per-view card built for local, legendary lightweight Dustin Poirier while he enters his pension fight against BMF champion Max Holloway.
Before the fighting starts on Saturday, the UFC had its usual morning roads on Friday with former champions Daniel Cormier and Chris Weidman.
It was in the show where Weidman announced his UFC retirement earlier this year, unveiling days later he had signed to fight in a new promotion, Global Fighters League (GFL), which it was said that the former PuC-Stars paid high wallets.
Unfortunately, things would not work for the GFL or one of his hunters, because the promotion of back-to-back events canceled in May after their most important investor had withdrawn.
Months away from the GFL fiasco, the still retired meadow caught a lost while he had the UFC 318-way show.
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UFC Broadcast Team attracts GFL -japs on Chris Weidman
On Friday, the UFC broadcasting team took a photo of Weidman with its arms around the GFL logo, which made a meme of astronomer CEO Andy Byron recently caught his wife during a Coldplay concert.
The UFC moving show broke out laughing when the face of Weidman on the CEOs was cut.
“What is GFL?” Weidman joked.
“You would have been a billionaire if GFL fulfill your contract,” hosted Hellie.
“The most sad part about that is that you have never been paid. People are actually paid by GFL, not Weidman,” Hellie said.
“I was still in the UFC when they were paid,” Weidman explained.
“You stopped the UFC to go to the GFL,” Hellie replied.
“No, I didn't stop with the UFC. UFC was done with me,” Weidman admitted.
“When you went to the GFL, I was like thank goodness, I don't have to go to the show with him anymore and then you came back!” Daniel Cormier told Weidman.
“You thought they would cut me,” Weidman said.
'They kept me [the weigh-in show] Because they did not believe in the GFL. “Let's laugh at him,” said Weidman.
Chris Weidman announced his UFC pension at 40
Weidman decided to hang the UFC gloves after loss.
Instead of taking another walk for a pension fight such as Dustin Poirier on UFC 318 this weekend, Weidman decided to take his opportunities elsewhere.
The former champion is 1-3 in his last four fights. His last fight was a second round TKO defeat against Eryk Anders on UFC 310.
Weidman withdrew from the UFC in January before he turned 41. Weidman has since participated in a wrestling match against Pat Downey.
In his Prime, pasture of all time and then champion Anderson Silva stopped in back-to-back title fights to become the UFC middleweight champion in 2013.