Dana White isn’t serious about listening to concerning the high quality of a UFC card till after it’s already occurred.
Forward of UFC Vegas 110 on Saturday, White sat down for a Q&A posted on social media and one of many first questions requested to the UFC CEO was about why the following two occasions are so unhealthy. Saturday’s card is headlined by ranked featherweights Steve Garcia and David Onama whereas UFC Vegas 111 subsequent week options Gabriel Bonfim vs. Randy Brown in the principle occasion.
Whereas not the most important names on the corporate roster, White prefers to let the fights play out earlier than making any form of judgment on how good or unhealthy any card may be.
“Properly let me ask you a query — how’s it unhealthy when it hasn’t even occurred but?” White stated. “Shut the f*ck up. Watch it tomorrow and if it’s unhealthy, inform me it’s unhealthy.”
Clearly, the complaints are aimed on the total high quality of the cardboard, not essentially concerning the motion within the fights. Whereas not essentially the most stacked occasions in UFC historical past, UFC Vegas 110 does function 4 prime 15 ranked fighters on the prime with Garcia vs. Onama and heavyweight Waldo Cortes-Acosta going through Ante Delija.
There’s additionally a matchup of prime 5 bantamweights on the undercard with Ketlen Vieira taking over Norma Dumont.
As for UFC Vegas 111 on Nov. 8, that occasion is unquestionably a bit of more durable with regards to stakes with solely Bonfim presently ranked within the prime 15 out of anyone competing on the principle card.
The prelims function a pair of ranked fights within the girls’s divisions with Mayra Bueno Silva vs. Jacqueline Cavalcanti and Tecia Pennington vs. Denis Gomes.
Regardless, White prefers letting the motion communicate for itself and he’s undoubtedly not shy with regards to voicing his opinion a few lackluster output if a card doesn’t ship.
The following two playing cards is probably not star-studded however that ultimately results in UFC 322, which is stacked with two title fights on the prime of the cardboard together with Islam Makhachev’s transfer to welterweight the place he faces champion Jack Della Maddalena in the principle occasion whereas Zhang Weili strikes up from strawweight to face Valentina Shevchenko with the 125-pound title going up for grabs.
