Two high MMA analysts aren’t shopping for what UFC CEO Dana White is promoting in relation to a few of his post-fight remarks at UFC 304.
UFC 304 in Manchester final month featured two spectacular title wins, capped off by Belal Muhammad’s upset victory over Leon Edwards in the primary occasion. UFC interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall retained his belt with a wild end to Curtis Blaydes within the co-main occasion.
Whereas the highest of the cardboard delivered loads of storylines, UFC 304 featured seven consecutive choices, a streak snapped by Paddy Pimblett’s submission of King Inexperienced on the primary card. The UFC 304 fights started in the midst of the night time in Manchester, resulting in some low-output showings within the Octagon.
After UFC 304, White appeared to dismiss that the unideal struggle instances had an affect on the occasion high quality. This was regardless of some struggle followers in attendance falling asleep on the venue because the matchups performed out.
Dana White Questioned For Scathing Publish-UFC 304 Feedback
Throughout a current episode of Weighing In, ‘Huge’ John McCarthy picked aside White’s disgruntled post-UFC 304 feedback.
“Whenever you’re pointing one finger ahead, there’s three coming again at you Josh and you bought to take a look at these and also you gotta say nicely, we did put these fighters able the place they had been preventing at 3 o’clock within the morning, 4 o’clock within the morning, 5 o’clock within the morning,” McCarthy mentioned of White. “Nobody works out at these instances, nobody fights at these instances. It’s an uncommon state of affairs and even when you attempt to put together for it, it’s odd. It’s simply an odd time for you, your physique doesn’t really feel the identical, you don’t really feel such as you’re up to the mark.” (h/t MMANews)
McCarthy’s co-host, former UFC standout Josh Thomson, didn’t maintain again in his criticism of White’s post-event remarks.
“You form of offset each events by doing this,” Thomson mentioned of White. “What occurs is once you go to a different nation and so they’re there 5 days earlier than, a few of them get there seven days earlier than, a number of the workers, and generally that’s not good. However, what I’m saying although is that now you’ve requested them to remain awake throughout the night time to allow them to be awake throughout the night time…
“So, those that come from the states that work for the UFC, their physique clock is attempting to vary to get adjusted to the UK time when in truth they will’t as a result of their present is at 5 within the morning,” Thomson continued on White. “Then, the fighters which can be there, they’re getting all screwed up as a result of they’re having to struggle once they’re usually sleeping. So you actually form of tousled each side of this equation. You messed it up for the those who work for the promotion and a number of the fighters that came visiting having to struggle.”
White has proven zero intentions of modifying future UK occasion begin instances after UFC 304. Aspinall and others pleaded with White and the UFC matchmakers to vary the occasion schedule forward of UFC 304, to no avail.
