Dana White UFC 108 VLOG Part 2

Loved the Rossen stuff.

But what was up with the Paul Daley informecial at the end?

That was awsome.

he could certainly inject some much needed excitement into WW.

Him, Hardy and Paulo are the only ones keeping it in interesting right now.

I didn’t watch, but I read the transcript over at WatchKalibRun and props to them for writing that out.

Seems like he takes this too personally. Like he wants people to get pissed off about it. And he was over playing his anger for the guy on the phone. Seemed a little manipulative, like he was working the guy on the phone and the viewing public via the camera. There is nothing wrong with him hating Rossen or thinking his articles are worth nothing. He is certainly entitled to his opinion.

I think the tell was him playing dumb on Askren, I would bet money that he knows who askren is and was just making a point.

In my opinion Dana being upset with Rossen goes back to his attitude if you aren’t with them helping to grow the UFC then you are against them. Looking from the outside in it does appear he takes it too personal at times and lets his mouth say things it shouldn’t professionally. I would like to think it’s his passion for the UFC that causes that attitude but it could be he is just that arrogant. Either way it gets in the way of him rationally dealing with situations like this.

Just another opinion but to me it does seem like there is a lot of MMA reporters who try to dissect every thing Dana says or does and write negative stories about it. While at the same time those same certain reporters seem to do the opposite with everything said or done by presidents of other MMA organizations. That might create an us against the world mentality for anyone having to go through that daily.

Mind-bogglingly stupid. Pure egomania. I’ve never really indulged in the Dana-bashing to the extent that most have, but Lorenzo or someone needs to give him a bitch slap and tell him to reign it the fuck in.

I like the Yvel/Daley coverage though, hope to see more of that.

These reactions are getting a little old. If Dana wants to disagree with an editorial, that’s his right. With that being said, the idea that a writer disagreeing with him is bad for the sport is ridiculous. MMA is not going to collapse because Jake Rossen thinks soccer will be more popular than MMA in ten years.

The role of media is to report and provide analysis, not promote the UFC. If Dana wants to disprove Rossen, give me some facts to counter his. Don’t trot out tired arguments about how he’s “hurting the sport” and “doesn’t care about UFC 108.”

It isn’t Rossen or any other mma reporter’s duty to promote the ufc or to agree with any exaggerated claims that Dana makes. If a mma reporter doesn’t believe that the UFC will be bigger than soccer or even NFL it’s his right to do so.

Although I think mma will continue to keep growing it will never be as big as soccer. Although the UFC offers an ability employ patriotic sentiments to good effect in getting people to watch the sport (such as English fighters for english cards, Japanese fighters for the Japanese etc) it can never rouse the passion like a country’s soccer team can. Team sports can really feed off of national pride, although UFC will always have hometown fighters to get behind it isn’t really a mater of national pride if they lose.

Secondly although I love the UFC it is very much an American product, in a brash and loud kind of way. This will probably get by in England and Australia but if Dana wants to export the UFC to the rest of the non-english speaking world it seems like he may have to find a way to tone down its ‘Americanness.’

I always though good journalism was about telling the ‘truth’ rather than merely trying to get more website traffic/ sales. Its kind of an old fashioned view of journalism but it speaks to journalistic credibility. I generally think I can trust a journalist who will air opinions that are actually counter-beneficial to themselves.