UFC CEO Dana White has modified his tune on middleweight prospect Torrez Finney and has provided him an unprecedented third likelihood on Dana White’s Contender Sequence.
Finney will face Abdellah Er-Ramy on Week 8 on DWCS on October 1st. He’ll fill in for the injured Logan Woods simply weeks after defeating Cam Rowston earlier this month on the present.
Finney is 9-0-0 in his skilled MMA profession with seven finishes, together with a vicious knockout in Could at Fight Battle Professional Duval. After the knockout, he earned a second likelihood on DWCS on August twentieth.
Regardless of one other stable efficiency on DWCS, White didn’t provide Finney a contract. Not solely did White not provide him a shot on the roster, he made a sequence of harsh remarks in the direction of the promising prospect.
“Finney, now you had been right here final yr and my advice to you was to exit and get some expertise, you’re younger, you’re clearly gifted, you’re now 9-0, you bought one combat, you went out in a single yr and fought one combat,” White stated to Finney after the Week 2 DWCS card. “I’m at all times brutally sincere with these things, you’d get completely decimated within the UFC with the efficiency that you simply placed on tonight. Your efficiency final yr was higher than this efficiency. You’re 25 years outdated, child, you’re clearly a gifted athlete. Exit and get three or 4 fights this yr, then come again to us and discuss in regards to the UFC.”
