Video: Bruce Buffer’s Thumb “Peeled Back” In Frank Trigg Fight
Bruce Buffer may be known by many as the UFC’s Octagon announcer, but there was one time that he got into a fight and that came against Frank Trigg.
The altercation, according to Buffer, came when Trigg punched him while in an elevator with Mike Goldberg and Dana White.
“We had an Ultimate Fighter TV show and we were staying at the Hard Rock hotel and we had just got done doing the show,” Buffer said on Fightlore (via Joe Coleman of Talk Sport). “I went up to [ex-commentator] Mike Goldberg’s room and Frank was in there and we are friends! We decided we were going to go out, have a little dinner and go to a club. When we get to the elevator, the doors open and there is Dana White and his security guard and then Frank walks in. I love watches and Dana had this really cool watchband on and I go, ‘Dana, what a cool watch.’ All of a sudden, I got a wrist hand shot to my neck. I turned around and I said, ‘Frank you hit me, why the f*** did you hit me?’”
Buffer would ask Trigg why he hit him, but Trigg’s answer led the two to getting into a brawl in the elevator.
“He said the wrong thing to me. He said ‘Well what are you going to do about it?’ I just reacted and went ‘pop, pop’ – I punched him twice. Frank came back at me, hit me harder and I had to hit him back harder. It was on! 10 floors; what does that take – 15, 20, 25 seconds? All 10 floors, we just kept going and going until the point that he threw a knee up and kneed one of my friends! Dana was against the elevator, I don’t remember seeing him. I was too busy focusing on what was going on and the adrenaline was pumping and that was when the doors started to open. I just threw my arms in the air and I said, ‘Frank, we’re done!’ I looked down and there was blood up and down my shirt and my thumb is peeled back and you can see the bone in my thumb,” Buffer said.
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