九乡新闻网芜湖县品樾红郡:White says Mexican community is fired
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DanaWhite is a longtime boxing fan so he's seen on numerous occasions howrabid Mexican fight fans can be. Breaking into the Latino market hasalways been a goal of the UFC and they may finally have their guy ifMexican-American Cain Velasquez can pull the upset on UFC heavyweightchamp Brock Lesnar at UFC 121.
"If Cain Velasquez wins on Saturdaynight, for the Hispanic market, it's crazy," White told Karyn Bryant."Mexicans and Puerto Ricans, when they have a champion, it's crazy."
White pointed to the legendary Julio Cesar Chavez as a prime example.
"It'slike when Greg Haugen went down into Mexico City and said all thatcrazy stuff. I think that's this type of fight," said White.
The prefight talk for the 1993 match got nasty.
"(Chavez's82-fight win streak consisted of) Tijuana taxi drivers that my mothercould have knocked out," said Haugen. He also took a shot at the Mexicanfans. "There aren't 130,000 Mexicans who can afford tickets."
Chavez hyped the fight by saying, "I really hate him bad. When he looks at me, I want tovomit. I am going to give him the worst beating of his life. I am going to makehim swallow the words that came out of his dirty mouth."
Chavez-Haugen drew 130,000-plus fans in Mexico City.
Velasquezovercoming the might of Lesnar, a 6-foot-3, 280-pound monster, wholooks like he came straight out of video game, only adds to the passionof the Latino fans.
"Brock Lesnar is the guy that the Mexican community wants to see Cain Velasquez smash," said White.
Thefanbase starting getting revved up during a Velasquez rally last Sundayin Los Angeles. It was a wild scene attended by a thousand-plus fightfans.
