As the corporate sponsors spoke, Kajan Johnson felt his blood pressure rise.
It wasn’t the fact that representatives from the UFC’s corporate affiliates, Reebok and Anheuser Busch, were speaking at the UFC Athlete Retreat in Las Vegas last weekend, in and of itself, so much as the tone they used.
“They’ve got a couple guests that are speaking, one’s from Reebok, one’s from Anheuser Busch, that makes like Budweiser and that,” the TriStar lightweight from British Columbia said on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “And, you know, they’re kind of talking at us, not really to us, it’s not like a two-way conversation, they’re just trying to like, saying, yeah, okay, this is what we want from guys that we sponsor.