UGP 5 PRESS CONFERENCE

EVENT: UGP 5 Press Conference

VENUE: Arie Crown Theater

LOCATION: Chicago, Illinois

DATE: Friday November 23, 2018 @ 8:00 PM ET

[The marvelous Arie Crown Theater is packed with media reporters and fans, all anticipating for the start of tonight’s press conference. The room is dimly lit and the stage is illuminated with spotlights from several angles, drawing the focus solely to the front. Finally, Union GP President Dante Reed makes his way out with fighters scheduled for UGP 5 following behind. The crowd explodes into cheers as Dante takes the center podium and the fighters make their way to their reserved seats. The two fighters scheduled for the main event sit on either side of Dante, La’Bell at stage left and Heavyweight Champion Diao at stage right. As the crowd begins to die down, Dante takes the opportunity to make his opening statement.]

DANTE REED

What’s up Chi-Town?! Damn it feels good to be back here. I still got goosebumps from our very first event. You guys are the epitome of the fan base we strive to have, and we thank each and every one of you! Tomorrow night we have a monumental event in store as we have our first two title defenses on deck. Our Headline fight has Lightweight Champion Jordan Parker-Kane defending his title against Hailey McIntyre; and our main event is the trilogy between Ferdinand Diao and Derrick La’Bell. On top of that, we have four fighters making their Union GP debuts. Gina VanZant coming in on short notice to take on Kaelan Laughlin, Takeshi Kato and Aryeh Rothstein Opening the night, and the well known Aries Reed going up against Aeron Roberts! And we’ve also got some big contender fights with the blazing Edan McLeod taking on Jeremiah Ford, Simon Bishop taking on Sang-Hyun Lee which is sure to be a technical clinic, and Jakko Wirman taking on Kevin Van Damne in Jakko’s first fight training with Real Killas MMA. I’m excited to see every one of these fights, and it just shows the promising future this promotion holds. So let’s go ahead and open the floor and toss it over to the reporters! Thank you all.

[Dante eases back from the podium as the sea of reporters rush to fly their hands in the air to be called on.]