UFC’s Dana White is already again to his traditional antics

It didn’t take lengthy for Dana White to get again to enterprise as traditional.

On Wednesday he spent a whole press convention discussing how fallacious he was after being recorded slapping his spouse at a New 12 months’s Eve celebration. By Saturday, he was again to defending the best way that the UFC compensates its fighters after deciding to let Heavyweight Champion Francis Ngannou stroll.

T-Cell Enviornment made a mistake when it revealed on its outside video boards that Jon “Bones” Jones and Ciryl Gane might be preventing for the UFC Heavyweight Championship. Commercials for that combat weren’t speculated to have been launched at the moment. The outcome, following UFC Vegas 67, White took a while to elucidate why this specific combat had been scheduled though Francis Ngannou defeated Gane on heavyweight title combat a 12 months in the past.

White performs the blame recreation

White didn’t even await a query. He dove proper into how negotiations with Ngannou for a brand new contract fell aside, and he put the blame squarely on the previous UFC Heavyweight Champion.

White advised the media that UFC was keen to make Ngannou the highest-paid heavyweight within the group’s historical past, nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient for the champ. Additionally, White tried to take a shot at Ngannou’s skilled integrity. He stated to the media, a number of occasions, that Ngannou is extra curious about taking up lesser fighters for extra money than going through Jones, whom White repeatedly known as the best fighter of all time.

In White’s second press convention after placing his spouse, he determined to spend time pumping up a fighter who has not competed in three years, partially due to his personal home violence allegations. In late 2021, Jones confronted expenses of home battery together with headbutting a police automotive. He finally pleaded nolo contendere to a misdemeanor cost – destroying property of one other — and his home violence cost was dropped.

G/O Media might get a fee

Up to $100 credit

Samsung Reserve

Reserve the next gen Samsung device
All you need to do is sign up with your email and boom: credit for your preorder on a new Samsung device.

Who disciplines Dana White?

After the video of White striking his wife went public, he first said that he accepts full duty for his wrongdoing on TMZ. Then on Wednesday, on the UFC Vegas 67 Media Day, White spent practically quarter-hour taking questions concerning the incident. To his credit score, he provided no protection and he additionally requested those that are talking up for him to cease. Nonetheless, when requested a couple of potential punishment, the president of the UFC replied that if he hung out away on punishment the group would undergo, not him. White stated that his punishment is that he should dwell with the stain of what he did for the remainder of his life, and any lack of respect that comes because of this.

That could be a burden that I definitely wouldn’t need to bear, particularly if I had offspring who additionally need to take care of the fallout of my shameful act. Anybody who needs to be regarded as a good particular person wouldn’t need to be related to the act that White was recorded committing, however he’s fairly lucky that his wealth and standing gained’t be harmed by what he did.

It’s the soiled elephant within the room that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver introduced consideration to as soon as the league’s impartial report on Phoenix Suns proprietor Robert Sarver’s misconduct was launched. Silver stated flatly that proudly owning a crew is completely different from being an worker of the NBA or considered one of its franchises. The league later launched an announcement that tried to stroll Silver’s feedback again, nevertheless it was too late to divert peoples’ consideration from that dirty elephant.

White doesn’t even personal the UFC. He’s the president. It’s a task that might be thought of just like Silver’s as NBA Commissioner, aside from the truth that the UFC doesn’t have 30 homeowners, it has one. It’s owned by a publicly traded leisure firm — Endeavor.

Nonetheless, the entity that Endeavor bought is one which White has run for greater than 20 years. He does the press conferences earlier than and after the occasions. He wraps the championship belts round fighter’s waists, and It’s his voice that screams expletives when UFC is questioned about fighter pay.

There isn’t a group of crew homeowners, no different promoters, and no union that White solutions to. For essentially the most half, what he says about UFC is the regulation. In some methods, he’s extra highly effective than any crew proprietor in a significant American sport. In these sports activities, all the crew homeowners need to reply to one another.

White solutions to 1 firm a couple of product that has turn out to be a power below his management. That’s why as remorseful as he could also be about that New 12 months’s Eve second, it didn’t take lengthy for him to start out publicly bashing a fighter who was upset with compensation. It’s already again to the usually scheduled program for White.