Was Griffin’s mind elsewhere with wife in labor?

“It’s just setting in,” he said of the loss. “I think that’s a fight where I definitely could have done a lot better. It sucks when you do poorly at your job.”

At least he pleased his boss just by stepping up and taking the fight, even if he ended up on the wrong side of it in the end. White insisted Griffin was still a top ten light heavyweight in his opinion, and couldn’t praise him enough after the bout.

Then again, if he’d known he was going to get knocked out the same night that his daughter was likely arriving into the world, Griffin said, he might have made a different choice.

“If I had known it was going to work out like this, I would not have taken the fight,” Griffin joked, adding that he was “supposed to have nine more days” until the baby’s birth.

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