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Dana White has never been known to embrace the critics. The UFC president was not exactly kind with his words when he found out how people reacted to the proposed bout between Khamzat Chimaev and Nate Diaz.
Dana White did an interview with UFC fan Robbie Fox of the famous Barstool Sports. The UFC President did not mince words.
“This isn’t a diss. I love Nate Diaz,” UFC President White told Barstool Sports (transcription via MMAFighting). “I love Nick and Nate as much as anybody else does. You get to a point, all of us, in life, in your professional career, in sports, where you get to a point where you’re like, ‘Can I hang here anymore?’
“Are we looking for less daunting fights in the UFC? Is that what we’re looking to do? That’s just all bullshit,” White said. “The guy has had four fights in the UFC! … Devalue him because it’s the last fight on his contract? Does everybody know he just lost his last fight? I don’t know if they knew that. How are you gonna devalue him? What if he loses with somebody else we match him up with? Would he be devalued? How does Khamzat Chimaev devalue him? You know how massive that fight – value is about being in massive fights that people care about. Fights that, when you make a fight and you announce it, there’s this buzz about the fight and everybody’s going crazy. Do you think that Nate Diaz vs. Khamzat Chimaev is not that fight?
“Here’s the moral of the story: all these people are fucking morons and have no idea what they’re talking about. I actually run the biggest fucking combat sports business on planet fucking Earth, so shut the fuck up and let me do my job.”
It's safe to say Dana White takes his job in the UFC very seriously. He'll be looking to make fights that people want to see.
