It was only a matter of time until UFC President Dana White threw his two cents in about the shit storm that is going on over at Elite XC. As usual, White held nothing back and continues to rip Elite XC and Kimbo Slice.
Here is what White had to say in an exclusive interview with the Boston Herald.
“It disgusts me. I’ve been busting my (expletive) for 10 years flying all over the planet to show everybody what a great sport this is and what amazing people are involved in it. Then CBS throws this guy who fights at people’s barbecues on the main event because they’re trying to compete with us, and he gets knocked out in (14) seconds by a guy who didn’t win ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ and couldn’t fight in the UFC. Then the guy turns around the next day and says, ‘The promoters actually paid me to not go to the ground with this guy. They paid me to stand up,’ which I’m pretty sure is illegal…. (Slice is) a joke. It was bound to happen. These guys have lost $60 million trying to get this thing off the ground. They’re building their promotion around a guy who can’t fight. It’s kind of (expletive) stupid, isn’t it? You’re in the fight business and you’re building your business around a guy who can’t fight…. When dirty people go out and do stuff like that, it hurts. Promoters have a bad rap as it is because of the last 100 years of boxing. We actually started to turn that around and were doing the right things and then you have these guys coming out and doing (expletive) like that. It hurts us.”
Is Dana White really that upset about this whole situation? After further review, we say absolutely not.
Let’s break this down real quick.
His closest thing to competition (not really though) is 60 million in the hole. The most marketable fighter they have (Kimbo) isn’t that good. Seth Petruzelli is a fag. And the promoters for Elite XC are fixing the fights.
Not sure to many people will tune in for the next Elite XC fights.
