So the bell has rung and Dana White has come out swinging.
As reported by mmamania.com, White is making it known that he is happy he no longer has to deal with Randy Couture and has noted that since their first falling out, Couture has been a hard man to deal with.
White opened up about the subject and promised he wouldn’t discuss Randy Couture ever again. Here’s what he had to say.
“I’ll say my peace on Randy Couture, and after today, I’ll never mention him again. The bottom-line is this: When that whole thing went down with Randy years ago, we weren’t on the best of terms. Now, before that happened, Randy Couture was on the Matt Hughes, Chuck Liddell deal. He was getting a salary, he was in with the company, he was one of those guys. Then he tries to do all this stuff, pull all this bullshit with Affliction, loses and comes back. So, it took me a long time to warm up to him. His lawyer, who I can’t stand, calling our lawyer every day, saying, ‘We want to come back, we want that job again, we want to work for the UFC,’ and all this stuff. Finally, I just say, ‘yes,’ and give him the FOX deal. He doesn’t even finish his contract — he’s got one more fight left — and he bails on the contract to go do this. Randy Couture has this ‘Captain America’ image and stuff like that, but he is not a good guy. He has never been a good guy. And I’m actually, and I mean this, I couldn’t mean it anymore: I am happy that he went there. I’m happy he is there. I never have to deal with Randy Couture ever again…. Talk to 99 percent of the people who know him and you’ll see [he’s not what people perceive him to be].”
Most who have followed the sport, and know anything about Dana White, knew that it was only a matter of time before the UFC President began to attack the man who left his company to join Spike TV and Bellator; we just didn’t know how White was going to attack.
He can’t very well question Couture as a fighter simply because to do so would slander the UFC; as a fighter, all of Couture’s accomplishments have come in the octagon, including multiple championships at heavyweight and light heavyweight.
Stay tuned to see how Couture and his new partners, Spike TV and Bellator, respond, if at all.
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