By Chamatkar Sandhu
At UFC 84 Lyoto Machida defeated Tito Ortiz by unanimous decision. Dana White revealed in a recent interview with Big Boy (a LA radio personality) that following that win the UFC president wrote Machida a personal check for beating Ortiz. Speaking to MMAFighting.com Machida confirmed that this in fact is true.
“He really did that. I felt like a hitman getting money from the boss, but it was cool.”
“I won’t tell you how much he paid me, but it was good money.”
“(White) said I was dominating the fight and out of a sudden (Ortiz) got me on that triangle. He said ‘s–t, I can’t believe it.’ He went crazy, but then I got out of it. So I guess he gave me a bonus because he was scared of that triangle (laughs).”
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