Quote of the Day: Dana White - "I Think Floyd Mayweather Blew This Fight"
by Nick Thomas on Jan 14, 2010 10:40 AM EST
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"I think something happened to Floyd in his last fight, something wasn’t there that used to be there, something weird. I truly believe his legacy means more to him than money does," White said of Mayweather.
"Me and Floyd go way back … I think [Floyd] blew this fight," White said. "When another fighter starts dictating a drug test, first of all Pacquiao’s never tested positive for any drug but Floyd’s going to make him go through drug testing? That’s ridiculous."
"Does [that bout not happening] hurt me either way? No I don’t think so, boxing and mixed martial arts can exist," White explained. "That fight not happening is insane, it makes no sense to me."
-- Dana White blames Floyd Mayweather for ruining a blockbuster match with Manny Pacquiao.
HT: 5thround.com
UPDATE [from Luke Thomas]: This comment - though it was never linked by 5thround - came from White's interview with Chad Dukes and Lavar Arrington at the Patriot Center on Monday. How do I know? I was there next to all three men when this was going on. Listen here for yourself.
Gents, all you had to do was source Arrington and Dukes and you didn't. You're literally THAT lazy.
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I wanted to see Pac vs. Mayweather so very very badly :(
The mat is my church, the ground is my heaven, Jiu-Jitsu is my religion. And once you hit the ground you're in my world. My world is like the ocean, I’m like a shark and most people don't even know how to swim - Draculino
by Patrick Tenney on Jan 14, 2010 10:10 AM EST reply actions
co sign
I find boxing pretty boring, If im looking for stand up only i watch K1 which is 100x better imo.
HI YAH!
by Thats It For you! on Jan 14, 2010 10:30 AM EST up reply actions
Mayweather Can't Run from This
He realizes he can’t hit and run like he does in his other fights so he makes Pacman go thru a gaunlet drug test that he knew he would never accept (as he wouldn’t accept it for himself is my opinion).
He might of also wanted another fight or two before trying Pacman to see if he can tune up better for him.
by KillerInstinct on Jan 14, 2010 10:13 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
That's the problem with boxing.
This guy is bigger than the sport itself. He can basically pick and choose his opponents as he wants. He doesn’t want a fight where he might actually be the underdog.
by HappyLittleTreez on Jan 14, 2010 10:33 AM EST reply actions
At least he thinks he’s bigger than the sport itself. As for whether that’s true or not…?
by Monday Morning Martial Artist on Jan 14, 2010 12:01 PM EST up reply actions
Nice stance from Dana
Nice to see Dana with a more nuanced view of the co existence of both sports. He sounds like a boxing fan and is echoing what most people have said about the fight.
Dana loves boxing. A lot of the UFC guys, including Rogan, Buffer and Dana, are huge boxing fans. He’s been very critical of how the sport is run, but I don’t think he’s been critical about the sport itself or claimed anything other than that the two sports can coexist.
Actually...
Dana loves his boxercise.
"You don't come to have your fingernails or your toenails painted. Goddamn, you come to fight, not to be a fairy."
Don Frye
by keyboardwarrior on Jan 14, 2010 11:13 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Look at his earlier interviews. He claimed that boxing would die and UFC would be the only one standing and that there would be space for only one sport, something to that effect.
It’s only recently that this change has come about.
I guess I missed those interviews. Every interview I’ve seen where he’s been critical of boxing, his criticism has been centered around the people who run boxing, not the sport itself.
I gotta go with you on this one. He’s always said stuff like “the guys running boxing are afraid of us” and “boxing’s going out of business because these guys don’t know how to do business”. While he was happy to annex chunks of the combat sports market, I don’t think he was exactly dancing on boxing’s (proverbial) grave.
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I love the comments on that site......
All the boxing fans are saying “Fuck Floyd, he’s boring, move on to the next fight Manny.” etc. MMA fans don’t go for that shit. We get up in arms when big fights don’t go down. I’d venture to say the ONLY big fights MMA fans haven’t gotten is Fedor/Randy and Fedor/Brock.
Boxing fans have seen so many great fighters duck legit challengers, it’s kinda normal. I guess the expectation on Floyd-Manny was that it wasn’t going to get made anyway.
by Monday Morning Martial Artist on Jan 14, 2010 12:03 PM EST up reply actions
Although Dana has a point...
I still feel that Floyd looked pretty sharp in his fight with Marquez regardless. I just think it’s a matter of Floyd not looking to be embarassed in a fight I feel he has a great chance to win. He can match the speed to match and superior defense to neutralize Manny, but oh well. Boxing died for good in my eyes when this fight was cancelled.
boxings death has been a slow prolonged event
its not totally dead yet but the ridiculous amount of corruption in the sport is never going to be fixed and the majority have casual fans no longer care after this fight being scrapped for no particular reason
As someone who only slightly follows boxing can someone provide an analogy to all the different belts? WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO…..is that akin to UFC/Strikeforce/Dream etc etc?
No
All the above are Sanctioning bodies…Basically they take a fee to sanction a title fight and then they declare the winner the champion, but of course if they want more money or are buddy buddy with some promoter they strip some fighter of the title and go sanction another championship match. WAMMA tried to do a similar thing in MMA.
These sanctioning bodies don’t really do anything else though, they don’t manage fighters promote events whatever.
UFC and Strikeforce are much more akin to the promoters in boxing (Top Rank or Golden Boy) that put together fights…Now in boxing they do co-promotion which the UFC refuses to do and Top Rank doesn’t have the branding of the UFC or give out its own championship belt, but that’s kinda how it works.
by SES 84 on Jan 14, 2010 12:14 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I don't know man
I’d look sharp too against a guy that had to gain ten pounds and was still smaller than me and I had a fraction of Mayweather’s talent.
by black dragon on Jan 14, 2010 11:42 PM EST up reply actions
That fight was an absolute joke.
Marquez is a warrior, but c’mon. That was pretty awful…I think the only reason the public tolerated it was because they were itching to see if Floyd had lost a step.
There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.
by misterjonez on Jan 15, 2010 11:07 AM EST up reply actions
Then again Boxing doesn't help itself
When the Roy Jones-Bernard Hopkins rematch is still taking place when Roy gets KO’d by Danny Green in Australia. The best thing that has happened in boxing in the past two years is Manny Pacquiao and the World Boxing Classic, but this was a fight that HAD to be made and Floyd simply dropped the ball. I’d be willing to get hit by Manny for 50 million, wouldn’t you?
Hell, I’d let him KO me for half that!
by Monday Morning Martial Artist on Jan 14, 2010 12:04 PM EST up reply actions
I've said it over and over again
I will be Floyd Mayweather’s next opponent. It’s perfect. I can make 147 lbs, even on short notice. I’ll do whatever drug testing he asks, be it urine, blood or hair. I hate needles more than anything else, but I’ll still do the testing. Hell, I’ll let them draw blood 30 mins before the fight, in between rounds 6 and 7, and after the fight. I’ll take a 70-30 split (I’ll say 55-45 at first, but thats a high ball). I’m ok with 8 or 10 oz gloves. Ring size doesn’t matter to me, if he wants 20×20 or 18×18, he can have it. I’ll talk shit and hype the fight. I’m a loudmouth who doesn’t know when to shut up anyways, we can play off each other. Since he always says his opponents aren’t good enough to fight him, he’ll be well prepared. And it’s true this time. I’m no threat to Mayweathers zero, which will make him absolutely bubbly with joy.
Just for being in the ring against PBF, I’ll bet you I could score 50k sponsorships with no problem.
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