But it seems the UFC bosses were not happy with these comments and have relieved Duran of his duties. Duran himself confirmed the news via Twitter:
UFC officials are yet to confirm the news, but Duran spoke to MMA Fighting’s Marc Raimondi following his firing. Here’s what he said:
(Source: mmamania, bloodyelbow )
Duran said that he might have been most upset that UFC president Dana White didn’t call him personally. White was the one who brought him on in 2001 after seeing him work a K-1 show at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Duran said he and White worked together to establish the UFC’s cutman program and gives White credit for “changing my whole career.”
“That’s another thing that pisses me off, that he didn’t have the balls to call me directly,” Duran said of White. “He had some other guys call me.”
“It’s not like I’m going to lack any type of work,” Duran said. “It’s just that I really enjoyed working with the fighters and the people in the UFC. To get a nut shot by Dana in him not calling me and having the balls to call me, it just showed me the kind of characters that I was dealing with.”
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