[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING]
DANA WHITE: What's up, boys?
TJ DILLASHAW: What's going on, brother?
DANA WHITE: How are you?
CODY GARBRANDT: Doing good.
DANA WHITE: So today is the wildcard pick.
And I know that you guys are obviously on different teams,
and have different ideas, and want to back your own guys,
but what we really need here--
pick the best guys.
Who are the best guys?
Who will go the furthest?
Who would do the best if they end up staying in the UFC?
Baghdad and Lane are both out on medical suspension,
so that leaves Nunez, Baczynski, Eddie Gordon,
Joe "Daddy," and Hayder Hassan.
Cody, who do you like to come back?
CODY GARBRANDT: Who's been working really
hard is Eddie and Seth.
Hayder has some promise, too.
Johnny Nunez had a great scrap with James
Krause coming off the couch.
DANA WHITE: TJ?
TJ DILLASHAW: Yeah, man, I think this whole redemption thing's
pretty cool, and the whole point of the wild card
is to give these guys some incentive
to leave it all on the line.
And I think that's what Joe "Daddy" and Justin did.
Their fight was the best fight of the season so far.
He's got the biggest redemption story ever.
He's got the most fights.
He's making a big comeback.
And yeah, Cody does have some great guys.
I think Hayder brought it hard.
He's come from big, big punches, went to a decision,
and I think that was the next most competitive fight.
DANA WHITE: All right, guys.
Thanks so much for the input.
And with that being said, I'm going to choose
Joe "Daddy" and Haydar Hassan.
TJ DILLASHAW: OK.
DANA WHITE: Thank you, guys.
I really appreciate it.
Good luck with everything.
TJ DILLASHAW: Have a good weekend, brother
CODY GARBRANDT: [BLEEP] Hayder, get ready, dude.
HAYDER HASSAN: [BLEEP] [BLEEP] So
today I got the wildcard spot.
Obviously, for my own reasons, I'm super ecstatic about it.
I feel like this is a second opportunity for me to go out
there and show what I'm about.
So I'm happy, man.
CODY GARBRANDT: He went in there and played,
Joe "Daddy" is a legend, and he's a Hall of Famer
and, you know--
but he got his ass beat.
It wasn't even a [BLEEP] competitive fight.
Joe "Daddy's" tough, he has a lot of heart,
but he took a lot of shots, and then he got rocked a few times.
And if he was my fighter, and I was his coach,
I would not let him fight.
EDDIE GORDON: This should be about who
has the best opportunity to win the whole entire show.
CODY GARBRANDT: That's the way it was.
EDDIE GORDON: It should be about the best two fighters
who can win the whole entire show.
It's crazy.
Of course he's going to pick what
he thinks is the best matchup, which is [BLEEP] stupid.
That guy is going to get hurt.
That guy is going to get hurt.
For some odd reason, it looks like TJ's running the show.
He pretty much not only got to pick his fighter, Joe "Daddy,"
who had a heck of a fight, credit
to him, but he also was able to pick our fighter,
pick the match up, which is Hayder, which--
nothing against Hayder, but it just doesn't, logically,
make any sense.
TJ DILLASHAW: [GLEEFUL NOISE] [BLEEP] yeah!
[CELEBRATION]
JOE "DADDY" STEVENSON: I'm very excited to be
chosen to go on the wild card.
I think I'm very lucky.
I didn't come here to go 0 and 1.
I really want to make sure that I go out there,
put on my best performance, and execute my game plan--
get the W so I can move on and hopefully fight,
I guess, one of my teammates, or maybe even a possible rematch
against Justin.
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