UFC Prez Dana White Invites Fired Best Buy Employee To UFC 246 After Worker Stopped Shoplifter At Store In Hawaii; White: ‘What A Bad Ass This Chick Is’
By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
It was classic Dana White. The UFC president saw a Best Buy worker take down a would-be thief from stealing an item and he wanted to meet the woman.
“What a bad ass this chick is . . . I want to bring this woman out. She went head-to-head (with the thief),” White told LVSportsBiz.com Friday night.
White, who relies on a T-shirt and jeans wardrobe and down-to-earth business style, loved the case of a Best Buy employee named Summer Tapasa-Sataraka who stopped the thief from stealing an item from the big retailer at a location in Hawaii but ended up getting fired for her take down actions.
So, after seeing the video of Tapasa-Satara in the skirmish with the thief on Instagram, White invited the fired Best Buy employee to Las Vegas to take in the UFC 246 fight show Jan. 18 featuring Conor McGregor vs. Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone. And White even offered Tapasa-Sataraka a job at UFC, too.
Here’s White’s Tweet for his 5.2 million followers: “This is Summer. She stopped this punk from getting away with stealing from BestBuy in Hawaii. She got fired for this. Flying her in this weekend and giving her tickets to the McGregor vs Cowboy fight. I WANT HER TO WORK FOR ME! Get ready for the best weekend of your life Summer.”
Check out Tapasa-Sataraka stopping the shoplifter.
White told LVSportsBiz.com he has not met or talked with Tapasa-Sataraka. But he plans to meet her next week and film the encounter. White noted that Tapasa-Sataraka had given her two-week notice to leave before the skirmish, but Best Buy fired her anyway for, as White put it, “getting right in his face.”
White said he relied on his instincts of just wanting to meet her after she stepped up to stop the would-be thief.
“I’m a real guy and a real fucken person and I wanted to meet her and I bet everyone wanted to meet her too. That’s why it’s going viral,” White said Friday night.
Fans loved White’s gesture to invite Tapasa-Sataraka.
Even MMA Junkie weighed in.
Apparently, Tapasa-Sataraka was pleased with White’s invite with this Facebook post.
Maybe White, known to promote out-of-the-box fights like the crossover match between UFC star Conor McGregor and undefeated Las Vegas boxer Floyd Mayweather in 2017, can bring Tapasa-Sataraka onto UFC’s roster of fighters.
After all, White did say he wants the former Best Buy worker to work for him.
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