But at the end of the day, they’re mad at my reporting. “And to be honest, I didn’t do anything wrong. “My colleagues didn’t do anything wrong,” Helwani said. He then said White looked at Laydon, and told him that both he and Esther Lin, a photographer for and Laydon’s fiancee, had to leave as well. “…I’m not going to create a stink, but I really hope that cooler heads will prevail.” “I said I hate that this is happening,” Helwani said. Helwani said he walked to a hallway outside the media room and met with White and several of his colleagues, where White informed him he was out, for being “too negative.” …After some back and forth, he agreed to let Casey come back with me.” “I said, I’m not going to the back unless my colleague can come with me. “A couple minutes later, a higher ranking PR person came to me and said: ‘You must go to the back.’ Helwani says he deferred, both because he wanted to watch the main event and because he suspected it would be an unpleasant conversation. Helwani was in the media room at UFC 199 when he broke the story, and he said after he reported the Lesnar news, just before the main event, a UFC public relations staffer asked him to come meet with Dana White. “And I finally got it confirmed by multiple sources.” “I was hearing rumblings about Brock Lesnar,” said Helwani, who grew emotional several times during the show. On Monday, Helwani went on The MMA Hour Live, the YouTube show he hosts, to offer up his explanation of everything that happened to lead to this.
journalist Ariel Helwani tweeted out on Saturday night that he had been escorted from UFC 199 and banned for life after he correctly reported early that Brock Lesnar would fight in UFC 200.
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