“He made a bad decision,” the head of the organization said at a press conference in Las Vegas. “It doesn’t matter how much you’ve had to drink – if you’ve been drinking, don’t drive. Especially since it’s not hard to call a cab nowadays, and when you make as much money as this guy, you can hire a driver. Let someone drive you, cab or whoever.”
“Thank God no one was hurt. Neither he nor anyone else. You know what I say about mistakes: what conclusions do you draw after you’ve made them? I hope he did it for the first and last time, and never does anything like that again.”
The middleweight title fight, which headlined UFC 293 in Sydney on September 9, ended with the American winning by unanimous 49-46 three-round decision, and for the mma community, the news of the Nigerian’s arrest was further confirmation that he didn’t take this confrontation seriously enough.