Aiemann Zahabi has revealed that he remains to be yet to place pen to paper on a contract for his fight on the White House.
The Canadian bantamweight goes to face Sean O’Malley on the star-studded and historic card on the White House lawn in June. His fight, together with the remaining of the cardboard, was announced last month at UFC 326 with lots of the competitors learning that they’d made it when it was confirmed on Paramount+.
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Zahabi and O’Malley’s showdown is probably the most fascinating on a card that has are available for criticism for not featuring enough top names. Nevertheless, it will not be 100 per cent official just yet as Zahabi has not signed a contract.
Aiemann Zahabi remains to be not signed for UFC White House
Let’s not get it twisted; Aiemann Zahabi is fighting Sean O’Malley on the UFC White House card on June 14. Nevertheless, during a stream with N3on tonight he did explain how the strategy of agreeing to be on such a historic event got here to be, and noted that pen will not be yet on paper for his contract.
“So my brother called me and said ‘Aiemann they offered you Sean O’Malley‘ and I used to be like ‘hell yeah’,” Zahabi recalled while within the cage at Tristar with the controversial streamer. “I called him out and I’m completely happy they gave it to us.
“So we said yes, but how it really works with the UFC is you send them a text to verify, straight away they send you a confirmation that they received your message and inside 24 hours I get a fight contract, it’s signed it’s done, it’s sealed.
“This time? I’ve got nothing, I still don’t have a contract… I feel it’s because they wish to keep all the pieces leak-proof, they don’t want anyone to leak it to the media or whatever, in order that they kept all the pieces hush hush.
“Then they announced it on a UFC card and everybody came upon officially. Even Justin Gaethje is sitting there within the front row and he just came upon he’s fighting Ilia Topuria… I feel they picked one side of the cardboard after which had two options for each ‘B fighter’. So I feel I said yes and Corey Sandhagen said yes.
“So that they announced it on the day and I actually thought it was a very cool announcement. I actually liked it higher than after they first called me to affix the UFC because I got to enjoy it with my wife and children, it was cool.”
When N3on asked, seemingly amazed by this revelation, if Zahabi still is with out a contract, he replied: “No, I didn’t sign it,” nevertheless, he insisted that “UFC is sweet with their word,” confirming that the fight may be very much on.
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