After conducting a meeting with Roy Nelson, the two sides seem to be a standstill and haven’t come to a decision regarding Nelson’s future within the UFC.
FightersOnly.co.uk reports that one of the topics the two sides discussed was Nelson’s weight issues. Simply put, White insisted Nelson lose his infamous belly. However, the rotund heavyweight thinks otherwise.
“I said, ‘The fat thing was funny for a minute. It’s not funny anymore’,” White said.
Nelson has picked up back-to back losses in his last two of three bouts, losing to Junior dos Santos and Frank Mir. Following his bout with Mir at UFC 130, White wasn’t pleased in either competitor’s performance and he planned on further discussing that matter with Nelson last week.
“It is hard to talk to a guy that has performed at the level he has with that weight. He felt like he had one bad fight and everybody jumped on him,” he said.
It was expected for either Nelson or Mir, that the winner would receive a step up in competition and be close to a title shot. But after his last two performances, it doesn’t look appear that Nelson will be competing for a title shot anytime soon, as the UFC boss is concerned with Nelson’s personal health which could be detrimental to his career.
“When you get into these big fights with guys that mean something and you don’t win, maybe you need to change something up,” he said.
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