Tommy McMillen was found unresponsive in a Scottsdale nightclub this past Sunday. (Chris Unger via Getty Images) Drake Riggs Uncrowned Sun, November 15, 2026 at 9:39 AM UTC · 2 min read About Our Ads Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Tommy McMillen was fighting a different kind of fight in the lead-up to UFC 334.
TMZ broke the news this week that McMillen was hospitalized Sunday after officers were called to a Scottsdale, Arizona nightclub . The UFC featherweight prospect was found unresponsive with white powder around him, prompting the officers to use Narcan, an opioid antagonist often used to negate drug overdoses. McMillen's coach, Tim Welch, posted on social media after the news broke that McMillen was OK and already back to training, before McMillen himself posted on social media that he's "ready for a short notice call." Footage of McMillen training has since been posted as well.
Speaking at the UFC 334 post-fight press conference on Saturday night in Madison Square Garden, UFC CEO Dana White reacted to the news.
"It's f***ing horrible," White told reporters backstage.
"I found out online like everybody else did. It's crazy [that he's back in training]. It's incredible. Horrible. Hopefully, that was a huge wake-up call for him."
McMillen's partying habits had already become a topic of discussion prior to Sunday's hospitalization. In late October, the 28-year-old prospect's coaches, the aforementioned Welch and former UFC bantamweight champion Sean O'Malley , both admitted on Uncrowned's "The Ariel Helwani Show" that McMillen was reaching a crucial crossroads for his career between his in-cage successes and his outside-of-the-cage excesses.
"He's at a pivotal point in his career, and I think he's going to lock in," O'Malley told Uncrowned at the time. "I'm not too worried about him.
"He could go this way or he could go this way. The choice is his, and he's got to ultimately make that."
McMillen (12-0) has quickly become a rising superstar in the UFC after earning his promotional contract on Dana White's Contender Series in September 2025.
In his first three UFC fights, McMillen scored back-to-back bonus-winning knockouts, then won a "Fight of the Night" over Marwan Rahiki at Noche UFC in September .
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