Dana White was on the Opie & Anthony show today.
he talked candidly about UFC fighters.
~he said tito is an asshole and really isn't that great of a fighter and really tried to use the UFC and fighting to move into movies and become somewhat famous.
~he said Tito crys poverty but says that he made 6.3 million 2 years ago in the UFC.
~he said the dispute between him and tito, is tito being an asshole and making things personal.
~he said he does not respect tito.
~he said tito was afraid to fight Chuck again and always had an excuse to not fight certain guys.
~he said he does respect Randy Couture and is working on having him return to the UFC and he understands randy's issues with the company.
~he said Fedor is over hyped and has fought nobody since 2005 and he tried to get him to join the UFC. Fedors agents were more concerned about what the UFC could do for them than what the UFC could do for and with Fedor.
his agents wanted the UFC to build an arena in Russia!
~a publicist cuts in during the interview and says that there is 1 more minute that O&A have with dana....dana then says "what?"....."NO! these guys have me for as long as they want!" :bowdown:
~he said if Rampage beats Forrest and if Chuck wins the fight he has in September, there will most likely be a rematch between Rampage and Chuck,because the fans want it as well as the company and fighters.
~ Jim Norton asked about Kimbo.Dana said he likes how kimbo is taking that he needs to work on his ground game seriously but he is not good at all and wouldn't last in the UFC. he said he would put him on the Ultimate Fighter show and any one of the guys would beat him. he said Kimbo's last fight was against "a guy who was 1 step from being a corpse and he barely got out of that".
~he said that he has a fighter in WEC at 145lbs. that he would put up against Kimbo and he would destroy kimbo.....Urijah Faber!
~ they asked about Brock Lesnar and Dana said that when he was in negotiations with Brock he said that these are the best fighters in the world not WWE actors. and Brock said he wants to fight only the Best in the world if he can't do that then he doesn't want fight at all than.
~Dana said that these other companies trying to get into the "fighting game" don't realize how much work goes into running and organization. he said "you don't get 2 fighters an octagon ring and proclaim that you are in the MMA/fighting business"
~dana said that the other companies are putting guys like Kimbo as their headliners....but putting them up against "bums". he said that they had Lesnar join the UFC and put him up against a former UFC world champ Frank Mir not some "bum" and the other fighters really gave alot of respect to Lesnar for fighting top guys and not "bums". he said brock will be a huge force in Due time.
~He talked a little about his personal life and how he went from having nothing to buying the UFC for 2 million and now having it to what it is today.
He Proclaimed the UFC in 5-8 years will be the Biggest sport in the world.
bigger than the NFL bigger than european soccer bigger than the Super Bowl.
he said that the NFL tries to expand it's game to europe but they don't understand it because they have Soccer. it's like trying to get cricket understood here in the US. he said 2 guys fighting in any country in any language gets everyones attention because it's a primal instinct. everyone loves fighting.
~he said anderson Silva is destroying everyone in that weight class. as opposed to the other companies who don't have that kind of fighter at one weight so dominant.
~ he plugged the Tv Show "ultimate fighter" plugged the July 5th PPV. and even invited O&A to the show just let him know and they will be taken care of,which they immediatly accepted and asked him to send his private jet to get them. :1orglaugh
~and that was about it. just an FYI when that publicist broke in and said 1 more minute....Dana told him "i'll talk to these guys for as long as they want".........he was on the air for another 20+ minutes after that publicist cut in!!!! really cool guy (but i always liked dana) he was funny with his cursing also! how this guy would "beat the shit outta this guy" and "how this guy fucked up that guy".
Dana White 2....:thumbsup: