Dana White UFC President Dana White regrets allowing Sage Northcutt to compete while sick at UFC on FOX 18 this past month. Northcutt (7-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC) suffered a second-round submission loss to Bryan Barberena (11-3 MMA, 2-1 UFC) at the event and was heavily criticized for a lackluster performance that ended when he tapped to an awkwardly applied arm-triangle choke. The outcome marked the 19-year-old’s first career defeat, and while he was in high spirits afterward , Northcutt revealed days later that he competed with strep throat. According to “Super,” he felt under the weather to the point he was taken to a doctor and medicated prior to the fight
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Dana White ‘blew it’ allowing Sage Northcutt to fight sick: ‘I should have pulled him’ – MMA Junkie