UFC President Dana White is still talking about Fedor Emelianenko. Recently he was asked if he cheered when the Russian lost to Fabricio Werdum earlier this summer.
“A lot of people were saying that, ‘you must have been happy when Fedor (lost).’ To be honest with you, I’m as much of a fight fan as all you guys are,” White said on Friday. “You hear me talk about Fedor. I flew to crazy places, made him a very respectable offer to come in and fight. I would have loved to have done him and Brock Lesnar or whoever. I tried to make that fight happen, and they know it, whether they say it or not.
“They know what I did, they know where I went, they know what I offered, and they still didn’t take the fight. It takes two to make a deal.”
“I told them, ‘you’re one punch away from being worth zero or half of what you’re worth,’” White commented. “I bet they wish they took it now. The other thing with Fedor is I never say never.”
White failed to come to terms with Fedor and his M-1 Global management in the summer of 2009, to bring the fighter to the UFC.
Check out the rest of White’s comments at the link below. The UFC pres also offers his thoughts on the current Strikeforce champ Alistair Overeem.
HT: MMAWeekly.com