Salahuddin Everett, e’s private runner, has earned himself a C contract after producing a brutal first-round knockout within the Contender Collection.
Everett slept welterweight prospect Ozzy Martin inside two minutes to an enormous ovation, not least from UFC president White who was already his boss coming into the battle.
Everett, 29, has spent years climbing the UFC company ladder, initially employed by a third-party company in April 2023 to work as a graveyard safety guard, earlier than rising by the ranks to turn into White’s assistant.
Everett went 4-0 at skilled degree to earn his shot in Dana White’s Contender Collection – which pits prospect fighters in opposition to one another for a shot at being signed by the UFC – and the American grasped the chance with each arms.
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“We’ve had title fights in right here [at the Meta Apex], I don’t know if it’s ever been as loud because it was tonight to your battle,” White mentioned. “Everyone on the UFC loves you. You’re a fantastic child, neglect about the entire preventing and the contract, you’re a fantastic human being, this might not occur to a greater individual.
“You’ve got labored your means from the underside up and let me let you know what. All of the Boston guys had been texting me tonight saying your boy’s in hassle, this man’s [Martin] an actual man he’s preventing tonight, however you can not have gained extra impressively.
“It’s type of bizarre since you’re already on the UFC, however welcome to the UFC.”
Regardless of now having a UFC contract in his identify, Everett says he needs to proceed his day job as White’s runner quite than solely concentrate on coaching.
“I wish to keep on this constructing,” he mentioned. “I like it right here. I really feel like don’t repair what’s not damaged and we’ll simply proceed to maintain working.
“I’m right here to work and right here to battle.”