Rich Franklin got a call from Dana White’s assistant last month with a request to set up a call with the UFC president.
It had been a while since Franklin, a UFC pioneer, had heard from his former promoter. Franklin lives now on the other side of the world, Singapore, where he works as an executive for ONE Championship.
Franklin was entirely unsure why White wanted to chat, but scheduled a time for 9 a.m. the following morning before he was to head out to film the ONE Warrior Series reality show.
“I’m sitting at breakfast,” Franklin told MMA Fighting.