Overview
- Fortune, who fought Saturday at UFC Seattle, earned a unanimous decision over No. 8 Marcin Tybura with scores of 30-27, 29-28, 29-28.
- Veteran announcer Bruce Buffer first named Tybura as the winner, prompting Fortune to leave the Octagon before officials halted the exit, brought him back, and Buffer apologized on the mic.
- UFC and media reports characterize the mix-up as an announcer reading error rather than a judging mistake, and the official scorecards for Fortune never changed.
- The victory came in Fortune’s UFC debut on two weeks’ notice at age 35, and multiple outlets expect the result to place him in the heavyweight top 15 when rankings update.
- Coverage highlighted Fortune’s long road back from a 2012 weight-cut medical emergency he says left him briefly pronounced dead, and he called the announcement blunder heartbreaking before expressing relief at the corrected result.