http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ufcs-local-heroes-wow-sydney/story-e6freye0-1226013133583
DANA White, the man with over a million Twitter followers, rarely goes anywhere unnoticed.
Yet Sports Confidential can reveal the shaven president did exactly that over the weekend, slipping anonymously into a Sydney gym to handpick the next Australian contest for The Ultimate Fighter series.
"There were a couple of guys I wanted to look at, talk to," White reveals. "And if we end up going ahead with the weight class we've been working on, I have a kid from here who is going to be on the show. Honestly, 100 per cent."
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So will this businessman wearing a tee with favourite boxer, Mike Tyson, emblazoned across the front give us a name? "Ah, no," he grins. "But you won't have to wait long. I fly home Monday, finish shooting The Ultimate Fighter Tuesday, go to Kentucky that night for our Louisville card, then go to New Jersey for the fight there. Try-outs for our next series are the following day."
White also confirmed planning is underway for The Ultimate Fighter: Australia versus Great Britain - where middleweights Michael Bisping and Kyle Noke are being touted as respective coaches - and suggested MMA Down Under was ready to overtake its Ashes rivals.
"We pulled up at Bondi Friday morning and right there in the main street is an MMA store," he says. "I couldn't believe it.
"Two years ago, no one even knew what this sport was, now there's a store opposite the most popular beach in the city. Australia's a place we need to be giving more attention because very soon I think it could surpass the UK."
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THOUSANDS of Sydneysiders may hate Michael Bisping ... but not new Parramatta recruit Carl Webb. The hulking Eels prop, no stranger to throwing punches himself, travelled to the Elite Fight Gym, Penrith last week to spend a couple of hours watching the outspoken Englishman train.
And so impressed was Webb with Bisping's punch power, he quickly accepted a private box offer to attend at Acer Arena last night.
UFC fighter Kenny Florian may be staying Down Under a bit longer than he had expected.
The popular UFC lightweight, in Australia all week as part of the UFC 127 entourage, had all his travel bags and valuables, including passport, stolen from a company van while signing autographs with fellow fighter Ryan Bader.Bader also lost a heap of personal items taken, including his wedding ring
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