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UFC President Dana White “No Regrets” On Jon Jones Rant (Video)
By Chris Leslie on September 5, 2012
UFC President Dana White gave an in-depth interview to Ariel Helwani last night on “UFC Tonight.” FUEL TV has released video clips of the interview for your viewing pleasure. In this clip, White insists he has no regrets about his handling of the cancellation of UFC 151, though he did say the blame did not solely fall on UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and his camp. Be sure to watch today as we bring you more excerpts from the interview.
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He says he has “no regrets” but we all know that’s a load of sh**. Attacking, poking fun and insulting the face of your company AFTER you sponsor him and built him up to be your company’s “future” is retarded. Not to mention placing the entire blame on him for the cancellation of a shi**y card you and the company put together.
Dana White obviously and painfully is realizing the massive mistake he made by talking trash about Jon Jones the way he did. It made him look ridiculous and made the UFC look even worse and only gave MMA haters another reason to not take the sport serious.
Whatever the consequences will be from not only insulting Jon Jones publicly, placing the entire blame on his shoulder and cancelling an entire event, whatever the consequences are Dana White and the UFC brought it all upon themselves and I hope they reap it for being dumbas**s.
The UFC has already suffered a huge decline over the past few years. This only made things worse and Dana White being a 24/7 hypocrite doesn’t help things much.
-MK4
Yeah… Never really expect an admission of guilt out of him.
BabagadoucheUnnecessary – Lex415
@devin
His body language shows guilt and regret, even though he won’t admit it.
I wish Helwani had responded to dana’s question about what he said that was so bad about jones. Instead he chooses a different thread.
yup, said the same thing
@five-alive
I have to imagine he knows he’s wrong, but once a promoter always a promoter right? ;)
@mikemac
I know I was shocked he didn’t use his undeniable skill in producing the full awkward moment. Maybe that new post as fuel employee has reigned him in a bit, unfortunately.
@devin
I think you are right about helwani not wanting to mess up his fuel tv gig, which no doubt pays better than the mma hour. I also think he always gets the interviews with Dana after the fights and I think he doesn’t want to ‘bite the hand that feeds.’ I have always liked the guy despite his social awkwardness but after his interview with cung le I lost a lot of respect for journalistic integrity. He seemed offended when cung didn’t share his view on ‘sensai’ seagal.
remember, he’s an UFC employee now
@chris Leslie
Exactly! Company man.
Again, I have only seen these few clips but it seemed pretty staged and Dana appeared uncomfortable, not his usual off the cuff confident self.