UFC president Dana White was not happy with the media, specifically targeting ESPN during an interview with Yahoo Sports this week.
White’s rant stemmed from recent comments he made during a video interview with GQ, where the UFC president responded to numerous Twitter questions. Most of the questions were light-hearted, but one focused on UFC fighter pay.
“Fighters always want to make more money,” White said in response to the question from Twitter. “Boxing has absolutely been destroyed because of money and all the things that go on. It’s never gonna happen while I’m here. Believe me, these guys get paid what they’re supposed to get paid. They eat what they kill. They get a percentage of the pay-per-view buys and money is spread out amongst all the fighters.”
ESPN then wrote a story titled “UFC president Dana White not planning fighter raises: ‘These guys get paid what they’re supposed to get paid.’”
The ESPN article struck a big nerve as he described to Yahoo’s Kevin Iole.
“What you’re telling me is, some scumbag media guys out there watched an interview that wasn’t even theirs, took it out of context and wrote stories about it saying that fighter pay is never gonna go up. I AM F*CKING SHOCKED!” White said.
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“You’re gonna watch a fun, ‘Haha’ GQ f—ng Q&A and write a story off it? You’re a piece of sh-t. You’re a piece of sh-t f—ng journalist.
“You’re a piece of sh-t f—ng journalist because if that’s the question you wanted to ask… if you had a question about that, then f—ng call me and ask me. Because that’s not what it meant.
“You’re a typical scumbag piece of sh-t f—ng journalist if you write a story off of some goofy, fun GQ f—ng interview, and you write a serious f—ng pay story about it? F—k you! F—k you, and you should never f—ng be able to write for anybody ever again.”
It’s worth noting that White didn’t address his own quotes saying clearly that he believes fighters “get paid what they’re supposed to get paid.”
White hates the media and doesn’t like paying his fighters what they are truly worth.
