When Sage Northcutt suffered a horrific injury in May, losing his ONE Championship debut against Cosmo Alexandre, his former promoter Dana White called for his retirement. White even said that MMA “isn’t the sport” for the 23-year-old prospect.
Northcutt doesn’t understand why his former promoter would say those things.
“For him to say something like that, after that injury, I don’t understand the exact logic of why he would say something like that,” Northcutt told MMA Fighting. “Before, he was wishing me to do great in everything I happened to do in the future, and (to) say something like that is totally different.