Olympic gold medalist Gable Steveson is now no doubt on the UFC’s radar following his victory in freestyle wrestling at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, but the newly-crowned champion won’t come running to Dana White for an offer.
In fact it is White — the UFC president — who will have to come running to Steveson.
That’s what Steveson told MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour on Monday, where the 21-year-old revealed that he turned down a meeting with Dana because he didn’t think the UFC was actually serious about making an offer.
“Meeting did not happen,” Steveson said (transcript via Damon Martin).