AJ McKee explains why Dana White will owe him lunch, open to cross-promotional fights with UFC fighters
AJ McKee says UFC president, Dana White will owe him lunch sometime in 2021.
When McKee was a little kid, he was at a wrestling tournament. At the tournament was a UFC Expo, where Rampage Jackson, who is friends with McKee’s dad was showing him around. There, AJ ran into Dana White who didn’t like how a kid was in the VIP section and made a deal with AJ.
“Dana will owe me lunch as soon as I get a world title. When I was a little kid he told me I would never be a world champ.” AJ McKee said to MyMMANews. “Rampage Jackson took me to some UFC expo and I was wrestling that weekend. Before the finals, I was in the VIP section with Rampage, Clay Guida, and there were a bunch of monthly passes for XBOX. So, I snatched them all up because I didn’t think the pro fighters would want them. Well, Dana didn’t like that I was back there and he told me to get out of there. I told him I was about to win this wrestling tournament and be a world champion later on. He said no I would never be a world champion. So, I told him let’s bet, loser has to take the other out for lunch.”
In order for Dana White to take him for lunch, McKee will need to win Bellator’s featherweight grand prix sometime next year when he battles the winner of Patricio Pitbull vs. Emmanuel Sanchez. If McKee wins, he knows talk of how he would fare in the UFC will heat up, so the undefeated contender is open to cross-promotional fights.
“It is something I have thought about. Why not? But, as I’ve said, the promotion doesn’t make the fighters, the fighters make the promotion. If I know I am the best in the world, I don’t care what people say,” he concluded. “My stats and records will be proof. Yeah, I would love to fight some of the top UFC guys but to me, they would be testing their skills against me. At the end of the day, I know where my skillset is and the top guys would have a tough time with me.”
