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Dana White responds to Luke Rockhold’s UFC healtchare grievance
Ahead of UFC 278, former middleweight champion Luke Rockhold had plenty of critical things to say about the promotion.
A disgruntled former middleweight champion took the microphone in Salt Lake City to air a list of grievances about how things are being run today in the UFC. Rockhold hit on everything from fighter pay, to fight night bonus structure and more. One key point that stuck with UFC president Dana White, was his perception of fighter healthcare.
“These guys don’t know what they’re doing, and they’re letting Dana just run the show and suppress the sport,” Rockhold told reporters, including MMA Junkie at Wednesday’s media day. “They need to grow. This whole f*cking thing needs to grow together. Our lives are on the f*cking line. Healthcare needs to be taken care of. Our f*cking health needs to be taken care of. Mine has not been taken care of.”
White heard the comments from Rockhold, and he took exception to his claim. Furthermore, the UFC boss explained the promotion has been working on long-term healthcare for its fighters when their days of competing inside the octagon are over.
“That’s something we’ve been working on since day one,” White told TSN. “While they’re fighting here, these guys are very well taken care of, and so is Luke Rockhold.”
The former champ has dealt with a number of health issues throughout his career. Ahead of UFC 199, Rockhold admitted he was training with a torn MCL. He went on to compete anyway and lost to Michael Bisping. After the fight, his knee worsened and got a stem cell procedure, ultimately leading to a UFC Fight Night 101 main event fight cancelation against Ronaldo Souza.
Rockhold would make it to the cage to face Yoel Romero for the vacant interim middleweight title in early 2018. However, a few months later, a “nightmare” injury to his surgically repaired leg occurred, forcing him to pull out of his UFC 230 bout against Chris Weidman.
Rockhold’s attempt to return to action in 2021 was stopped when he was forced out of the UFC 268 bout against Sean Stickland due to herniated L4 and L5 discs in his back. According to White, throughout all of his troubles, he did not have to worry about his healthcare.
“Luke Rockhold was above and beyond taken care of with the issues that he had here,” White said. “I don’t give a sh*t what health insurance plan you have, they would have never covered the things that we covered for Luke Rockhold when he was going through his stuff. Everything he said was absolute f*cking gibberish and absolute bullsh*t.”
While White is unable to provide a timeline for accomplishing the goal of providing long-term healthcare, he maintains it is something that is a focus point for the promotion since he became president 21 years ago.
“Everybody who fights here gets unbelievable healthcare,” White said. “Unbelievable healthcare. I mean, we don’t even sew people up with regular doctors. If it’s bad enough, we send them to plastic surgeons to get sewn up.”
Rockhold returns to action at UFC 278 to face Paulo Costa in the co-main event at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City.
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Dana White responds to Jake Paul’s UFC salvo: ‘You’re too stupid’
The Dana White-Jake Paul feud continues on.
After the celebrity boxer issued a list of demands for better working conditions for UFC fighters, White responded with a video Saturday night dumping on Paul, and his proposal.
“Nobody on earth thinks you really wrote that,” White said. “You’re too stupid.”
White insinuated that the proposal, which called for long-term healthcare, fighters receiving a 50 percent share of UFC revenue and a massive increase in minimum pay, came from Paul’s manager, who he compared to a “warlock.”
“That guy used to be an accountant for me,” White said. “And let’s just say this: he no longer works for me and I think he’s a scumbag. But if you two think that you can do it better than we do, we’re doing this whole thing wrong, you can treat the fighters better than we do, knock yourself out. Start your own business.
“It’s easy to do. Get the warlock on it. The warlock can get it started for you. What you and the warlock should be focused on is your business. You’re tanking.”
Paul has been trying to get Jorge Masvidal or Nate Diaz away from UFC to box him, which White would need to agree to. The feud started when Paul repeatedly said White uses cocaine. White said he would be randomly tested for the next 10 years if Paul would agree to be tested for steroids for two years.
Paul responded by issuing the aforementioned list of demands.
“Jake, you never responded to the challenge,” White said. “You publicly stated that I use cocaine. I do not. … I believe that you’re a cheater, and I believe that you use steroids.”
Paul, a YouTube star, is 5-0 as a boxer, though none of his opponents have been professional boxers. He issued a video response Sunday morning in which he said, “steroid test me whenever the f–k you want.”
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Dana White after Jake Paul’s KO prediction
LAS VEGAS – Dana White seems unfazed by recent threatening comments made by YouTuber-turner-boxer Jake Paul.
Following the conclusion of UFC on ESPN 30 at the UFC Apex, White was asked about Paul’s recent statement that if he ran into White, their feud would end up with Paul “knocking him the f*ck out.”
The proposition that makes sense to the UFC president who poked fun at Paul’s boxing opponents, including post-UFC-career athletes Ben Askren and Tyron Woodley.
“It actually makes sense,” White told MMA Junkie at the UFC on ESPN 30 post-fight news conference. “I’m 52 years old. I’m in the age bracket of guys he fights, so yeah, I could see him wanting to fight me. It’s all he fights are 50-year-olds.”
White said he doesn’t take Paul’s threat that seriously – at least not enough to organize any legal papers. Like with his fighters, White expects “mean things” to be said in the combat sports world – even ones directed at him.
“Let me tell you what,” White said. “Get in line. There are plenty of people who would like to assault me. Get in line. It’s a long f*cking line, buddy. You’re going to be waiting for a while. No, it doesn’t bother me. This is the business we’re in. I say it all the time about the fighters, too. We are not in the nice guy business. This is a very mean business. I say many mean things about people, too. It’s just part of this game. It’s all good.”
The back-and-forth is the latest chapter in the saga of Paul and White. Although White has long said he’s not interested in doing business with Paul, the YouTuber-turned-boxer has remained relentless in his prodding. He constantly attempts to goad the UFC president while bringing up the issue of fighter pay.
Paul, 24, fights former UFC welterweight champion, Woodley, on Sunday in Cleveland as the headlining match of a Showtime pay-per-view. He will look to advance to 4-0 as a professional boxer against Woodley, a pro boxing debutant.
UFC on ESPN 30 took place Saturday at the UFC Apex. The card aired on ESPN and streamed on ESPN+.
Check out Dana White’s full UFC on ESPN 30 post-fight news conference in the video above.
Conor McGregor has chronic arthritis, asked NAC about tape
In the wake of Conor McGregor’s leg break and his subsequent claims the UFC were aware of a preexisting injury, promotion president Dana White says ankle problems existed long before UFC 264.
In an interview with “Watters’ World” on Fox News, White was asked if it was known McGregor was dealing with an injury. White then revealed that McGregor has dealt with “chronic arthritis” for years, but did not directly address the Irishman’s claim he almost withdrew due to a known stress fracture.
“(McGregor) has had ankle issues for (the) last couple of years,” White said. “He had asked if he could tape his ankles coming into this fight and he got clearance to do it from the Nevada State Athletic Commission and then he opted not to tape them. I don’t know why. He has chronic arthritis in his ankles.”
McGregor, 33, broke his leg with seconds remaining in the first round of his trilogy bout July 10 against rival Dustin Poirier. The fight was called off by the cage-side physician and McGregor underwent successful surgery the next day.
Shortly thereafter, McGregor released a selfie video where he stated Dana White and UFC physician Dr. Davidson were aware of stress fractures prior to UFC 264.
“I was injured going into the fight,” McGregor said. “People were asking me when was the leg break – at what point did the leg break? Ask Dana White. Ask the UFC. Ask Dr. Davidson, the head doctor of the UFC. They knew. My leg – I had stress fractures in my leg going into that cage. There was debate about pulling the thing out because I was sparring without shin pads, and I was kicking.
His comments come days after NAC executive director Bob Bennett said Friday the commissioning body was unaware of any severe injury pre-fight.
“If we ever knowingly had information a fighter wasn’t fit to fight, we wouldn’t let them compete,” Bennett told Las Vegas Review-Journal. “It would go to a doctor and a doctor would make that decision as the expert.”
As for McGregor’s future, White is unsure. There is an estimated one-year timeline on McGregor’s recovery and White is waiting to see how things play out.
“It’s going to take him a year to recover from this one before he can come back, so I don’t know,” White said. “We’ll see. The fight game is a tough game and the kid has cemented a massive legacy for himself and made a lot of money. We’ll see how the rest of his career plays out.”
UFC 264 took place Saturday, July 10 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The main card streamed on pay-per-view after prelims on ESPN/ESPN+.